Get that camera out of Tiger Woods' face. (Getty Images)

There are courses where Tiger Woods can shoot sub-70s rounds blindfolded with left-handed clubs. Augusta National fits into that category, as does Pebble Beach. TPC Sawgrass, site of this week's Players Championship, most assuredly does not.

Woods regards Sawgrass with about the same level of love he apparently has for the golf media or divorce lawyers. Yes, the 17th is the site of the famous "better than most" 60-foot putt in 2001. But that year marked the only time in 15 attempts that Woods has won at Sawgrass. He's only finished in the top 10 once since then, in 2009.

In fact, he hasn't posted consecutive sub-70 at Sawgrass since 2004 ... until Friday, that is, when he carded his second straight 67. And that's a signal that something might just be afoot with Woods this year. He hadn't broken 70 in an opening round until Thursday. He'd never scored as low as 67 until Friday.

Woods now sits a single stroke behind clubhouse leader Sergio Garcia, who is in at -11 and looking like a

Maria Sharapova with a message for the paparazzi.

Maria Sharapova is dating fellow tennis player Gregor Dimitrov, a fact brought to light earlier this week when paparazzi snapped a photo of Sharapova and Dimitrov sharing a tender moment on the streets of Madrid. Both are playing in the Madrid Open, where Dimitrov upset world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, so, yeah, it didn't exactly require CIA-level espionage tactics to catch them together.

After winning her own quarterfinal in Madrid, Sharapova joked about the revelation with a bit of impromptu camera lens art. She wrote, "How did you find us???" with a handy marker, smiling all the way. Hey, better this than enraged denials, smashed cameras or lawsuits.

Alas, Maria made the common mistake of failing to account for reversed letters, the same affliction that befell a Florida State fan who apparently painted her face in the mirror last fall. It's cool, we knew what you meant anyway.

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An appeals board has sharply reduced the penalties against Joe Gibbs Racing and Matt Kenseth stemming from the Kansas race, dealing a stinging blow to NASCAR and giving Kenseth a boost in his race for the Chase.

During postrace inspection after Kenseth's victory at Kansas, NASCAR discovered that one of eight connecting rods in the car's engine was light by the weight of three grams. (A penny weighs 2.5 grams.) Kenseth was docked 50 points, crew chief Jason Ratliff was suspended six races and fined $200,000, owner Joe Gibbs was suspended six races, and manufacturer Toyota was served with a five-point penalty.

However, JGR argued that the engine was produced by Toyota and that the team had no access to the engine's rods. In addition, JGR argued that the rod could not have given the No. 20 a competitive advantage. Toyota immediately took responsibility for the rod, which may have had a role in the appeal.

The three-member National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel reduced Kenseth's penalty from

Chris Christie, old Rex Ryan, new Rex Ryan. (Getty Images)

New Jersey governor Chris Christie is earning headlines as a possible candidate for higher office. Unfortunately for Christie, those headlines often front cheap fat jokes; as you can see from the photo at left, Christie is not the most svelte of men.

So what do you do when you're in New Jersey and need help? Tony Soprano is off the air and possibly dead. Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen are all Hollywood. So, next up: Rex Ryan, head coach of the Jets. Not coincidentally, Ryan has had a little battle with the bulge himself.

In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams scheduled to air on Friday, Christie noted that he consulted with Ryan before having lap-band surgery in February. Ryan had the surgery several years ago, and lost more than 100 pounds. In the surgery, a silicone band is placed around the upper part of the stomach, decreasing appetite. And, as you can see from the photos above, Ryan is, as of this past season, slim and trim.

Rumors that Christie will appoint Tim Tebow as his

The deer antler spray saga will not die.

Vijay Singh has filed suit against the PGA Tour, charging that the Tour failed in its duties to properly investigate deer antler spray and allowed Singh to be subject to "public humiliation and ridicule." Singh had admitted to using deer antler spray earlier this year, and at the time it was on the Tour's list of banned substances. The World Anti-Doping Association has since provided the Tour with information that led the Tour to remove it from the list of banned substances.

That was not enough for Singh. "Rather than performing its duties to golfers first, and then determining whether there had been any violation of the Anti-Doping Program, the PGA Tour rushed to judgment and accused one of the world's hardest working and most dedicated golfers of violating the rules of the game," the suit states.

"Singh seeks damages for the PGA Tour's reckless administration and implementation of its Anti-Doping Program," Singh's attorney, Peter Ginsberg,

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Hey, it's not everybody that can get the First Lady of the United States to pull off his trademarked move, but Colin Kaepernick did just that.

Kaepernick and Michelle Obama have teamed up to help promote physical education in schools in the "Let's Move" campaign, which might explain why the 49ers QB was as casual as you can get away with when meeting a member of the First Family. He posted this shot on his Instagram account on Tuesday.

Here, for your viewing pleasure, is video from February of the First Lady getting some kids into shape, with help from Kaepernick, Serena Williams, Bo Jackson and others:

If President Obama Kaepernicks after his next State of the Union address, you'll know who talked him into it.

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The Golden State Warriors have unveiled designs for their proposed new arena, and while the arena itself is of a standard form (unlike some recent ideas), its aesthetics set it apart from any other gym in the league.

The $1 billion project, designed by the architectural firm of Snøhetta & AECOM, incorporates the sweep of the San Francisco skyline, the waterfront and the Bay Bridge in its design. An enormous window on one side of the arena looks out on the bridge, and allows visitors at the surrounding park a look inside, though presumably without a direct angle on the action. The adjacent waterfront will include a cruise-ship berth. The entire structure will be about the height of a 12-story building to minimize impact on views of the bay.

The project still has numerous regulatory hurdles to clear, but the team hopes to have it open for the start of the 2017-18 NBA season.

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Plenty of athletes play golf, but few play it well enough to get called "a hell of a golfer" by no less than Tiger Woods. Tony Romo does, however; he's spent many of his recent summers trying to qualify for the U.S. Open, and he has little trouble finding his way to the top of pro-am leaderboards.

Of course, Romo has another job, one where his employer has just doubled down on him and signed him to a six-year, $108 million contract extension. And with that contract comes the likelihood that Romo will spend more time on the turf and less on the green.

Tucked away in an ESPNDallas report is this tidbit: Romo has declined to play in several pro and amateur tournaments, and will not try to qualify for the PGA Tour's HP Byron Nelson Championship or the U.S. Open. It's impossible to read this and think it doesn't have something to do with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' recent pronouncement that he'll expect much more out of Romo now that the ink on the contract has dried.

“Tony is going to have more time, more presence, not only in the offseason but when the season starts, beginning Monday, assuming we played Sundays," Jones told the Dallas Morning News last week. "He’s going to have more time on the job. A part of what we agreed with was extra time on the job, beyond the norm. That doesn’t mean that he didn’t have a lot of time on the job, but extra time on the job, Peyton Manning-type time on the job."

Romo's career to date has been a study in could-have-been.