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Ben Saraf is a Nets work in progress with one issue standing out from the rest

LAS VEGAS — The Nets made a record five first-round draft picks, three of them lead guards. The first one drafted, Egor Demin, has proven a better shooter than advertised. The next one taken, Nolan Traore, has confirmed his quick first step and ability to get into the paint. The last one, Ben Saraf, has...

Australian golfer Ryan Peake to make remarkable Open Championship debut after 5-year prison sentence

Ryan Peake will tee up at Royal Portrush on Thursday, and how he got this opportunity is unlike anyone else in the field. 

That’s because the Australian golfer won the New Zealand Open five years after he spent half a decade in prison. 

Peake was a talented junior golfer that turned professional when he was 19 years old. But, according to the BBC, Peake was "burnt out" from the game and joined the Rebels, an outlawed motorcycle gang, two years after turning pro. 

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"I was just normalized to it," Peake, now 31, said about joining the biker gang. "It wasn’t abnormal from where I was from to hang out in that sort of scene with my friends. 

"It’s something that I did find love in and I did enjoy it. I was interested in it, and I just found something there that I felt like I hadn’t found anywhere else."

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Peake was a "bikie," but being a part of an outlaw lifestyle means the risk of serving time in prison, which is what happened after assaulting someone he said was "making threats towards us."

"We just went to deal with it, and honestly, it wasn’t meant to happen like that," Peake explained, per the BBC. "We were generally just going there for a chat, and he was probably going to get a couple of punches along the way, and it was left at that."

Peake landed in a maximum security correctional facility, and it was there where he decided he "wanted to achieve better things."

"I didn’t profit from being a bikie," Peak said. "I enjoyed the lifestyle while I was living it, but it wasn’t going to get me ahead in life, and I was just always going to fall further and further behind and probably lead to more jail."

Peake was a teammate of 2022 Champion Golfer of the Year Cameron Smith at the time he was convicted.

But he returned to golf after jail, and the lefty started to get his career back on track. Thanks to help from coach Richie Smith, as well as support from his family, Peake received his Australasian tour card this season and earned his first professional win at the New Zealand Open.

In turn, Peake earned himself a spot in this year’s Open Championship. 

He will be teeing up with Phil Mickelson and Daniel van Tonder at 2:19 a.m. ET on Thursday to begin his tournament.

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Comedian Shane Gillis cracks Caitlin Clark Waffle House joke at ESPYs

Comedian Shane Gillis was tapped to host the ESPYs on Wednesday night, and he had a crass zinger for Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark during one of his opening monologues.

Gillis, who is also an actor on the Netflix series "Tires," had a little something for everyone while he was on stage in Los Angeles. Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders were also among the targets.

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But Gillis mapped out Clark’s future after she’s finished with the WNBA.

"When Caitlin Clark retires from the WNBA, she's going to work at a Waffle House so she can continue doing what she loves most — fist-fighting Black women," he said to polite laughter from the crowd.

Clark was not at the ESPYs on Wednesday as she continues to be evaluated following an apparent injury during the team’s win over the Connecticut Sun. She came off the floor on Tuesday night clutching her upper leg and was seen on the bench in tears.

CAITLIN CLARK'S BROTHER BLAMES REFS FOR LATEST INJURY TO FEVER STAR

The Fever star was set to be a captain in the All-Star game and take part in the 3-point shooting contest. But all of that seemed up in the air.

"No discussion yet about this weekend," Fever head coach Stephanie White said on Wednesday night. "There was imaging done, and, obviously, we're ruling her out for tonight, but there hasn't been any discussion beyond tonight." 

Clark sustained a groin injury late in the fourth quarter of Indiana’s win over the Sun in Boston Tuesday night. White said she did not believe it was a "reinjury." Clark missed time in May due to a quad injury and was recently sidelined for five games with a left groin strain.

"I'm not really sure that it's a reinjury as much as a different kind of injury. I know oftentimes when you're working with injuries in the groin and the quad and the hamstring and all of those things, there's just — they're all kind of tied together, and it's not always just one thing."

Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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Golf’s World Rankings have become laughable and inaccurate sham

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Question: Can an entity named the “Official World Golf Rankings’’ be trusted as accurate if those rankings are not including all of the best players in the world?  This is the suspended animation in which the global game has lived since the addition of LIV Golf, whose players have been summarily...

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