Sports At Politics

I apologize for the delay in writing this blog post, but next year's edition of the Tour Championship, the final event of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup Playoffs, will follow a completely different format than the format in use for this year's Tour Championship. Under the current format, the top 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings immediately prior to the Tour Championship were invited to play in the Tour Championship, which is currently a conventional stroke play event, albeit with a small, but very elite, field of golfers. Prior to the start of the tournament, a points reset was conducted in such a manner that anyone who is eligible to play in the Tour Championship has a mathematical possibility of winning the FedEx Cup, which is the trophy that the PGA Tour awards to the PGA Tour season champion, and those in the top five in the FedEx Cup standings prior to the Tour Championship are mathematically guaranteed to win the FedEx Cup if they win the Tour Championship. Under the...

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At the behest of then-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, a federal government photographer edited official photographs of President Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration ceremony to make it look like the crowd in attendance at the National Mall was much larger than before: A government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump’s inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger following a personal intervention from the president, according to newly released documents. The photographer cropped out empty space “where the crowd ended” for a new set of pictures requested by Trump on the first morning of his presidency, after he was angered by images showing his audience was smaller than Barack Obama’s in 2009. [...] The records detail a scramble within the National Park Service (NPS) on 21 January 2017 after an early-morning phone call between Trump and the acting NPS director, Michael Reynolds. They also state that Sean Spicer, then White House press secretary...