Of all the things Donald Trump has been called on the campaign trail, this one might sting the most: golf cheat.
Oscar De La Hoya said that's what he saw on the links when Trump joined up with his group at Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles two years ago. Trump, he said, cheated not once but twice in the space of two holes.
"Yes, I caught him," De La Hoya said. "It was unbelievable. But I guess it was his course, so it was his rules."
De La Hoya said he and his group were teeing off on the first hole when Trump, an avid golfer who owns several courses, asked if he could join them.
"Of course, this is your golf course," De La Hoya said he told him.
The former boxing champion said Trump hit his first ball into the water, hit a second out of bounds, then a third into the water again. His fourth ball then went into the bushes.
"Donald, what he does is he tees off first so we go off to our balls and what do we see but Donald Trump right in the middle of the fairway," De La Hoya said. "He said, 'Hey look, I found my first ball.' "
On the next hole, a par-3, De La Hoya said Trump hit into some bushes and again went ahead of the other players in his cart. When the rest of the group got to the green, he said Trump's ball was 3 feet from the hole.
Trump said, " 'And by the way, I'm picking it up,' " according to De La Hoya. " 'It's a gimme.' "
That De La Hoya waited so long to talk about Trump's golf game might have something to do with the fight he's promoting Saturday night at the MGM Grand. It matches a Muslim and a Mexican in Amir Khan and Canelo Alvarez, and there are tickets to sell.
De La Hoya, a son of Mexican immigrants, said he has reserved two of them at ringside for Trump, a big boxing fan, but so far they have been unclaimed.
Going the distance
Punter Tom Hackett -- the Ray Guy Award winner at Utah who signed with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent -- had quite the sideways answer when asked why he chose his particular position.
"The main reason I'm playing this sport is because, deep down, I'm fat and I don't like running very far," the 5-11, 187-pound Hackett told ESPN. "So I'm running 20-odd yards on and 20-odd yards off, and that's about all I got for you."
Pain in the neck
Brad Rock of the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, after the Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala compared the pain from a rigorous neck stretch from a trainer to a colonoscopy: "Someone, please explain the difference before he hits age 50."
Sports on 05/05/2016