Scottie Scheffler won golf's playoff opener by eight strokes

Scottie Scheffler, the world's top-ranked golfer, won the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis on Sunday by eight shots, the largest winning margin in the event's 68-year history. It was the opening round of golf's postseason, the FedEx Cup, a three-week affair that is supposed to be close. The result also decided which 50 players advance to next week; several missed by a single stroke and are said to be handling it professionally.

The postseason is three weeks long and built to be dramatic, and the best player alive treated week one like a Tuesday errand.

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Arsenal beat Manchester City 3-0 for the Community Shield

Arsenal won the Community Shield, English soccer's traditional season-opening trophy match, beating rival Manchester City 3-0 on Sunday in Cardiff, Wales. Riccardo Calafiori scored after just 24 seconds, and new signing Bruno Guimarães made his first appearance. Kai Havertz and Martin Ødegaard added the other goals. The trophy game is officially a warm-up that counts toward nothing, a fact Arsenal fans have agreed to ignore. The real league season starts Friday.

Arsenal scored 24 seconds in, so anyone who paused for a snack on the way to their seat missed the decisive moment of their afternoon.

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Baseball's best team is the one that skipped last month's shopping spree

In July, baseball's richest teams traded for roughly 160 players in a record spending frenzy. The Milwaukee Brewers, a small-market team, bought no one. On Sunday the Brewers beat the star-stacked Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2, in Los Angeles, and continue to hold the best record in the sport at 77-48. Elsewhere, the Seattle Mariners took the Sunday night game from the Houston Astros 3-2 on home runs from Cal Raleigh and Randy Arozarena, and now lead that season series 9-2.

Baseball's spending contest is currently being won by the team that didn't enter it, a development the entrants have priced at zero comment.

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The NFL played a full weekend of practice games, and the new quarterbacks looked good

The NFL's first full preseason weekend wrapped Saturday. These are practice games: the results do not count, the stars mostly watch from the sideline in expensive coats, and the tickets are real. The rookie quarterbacks were the story anyway. The Rams' Ty Simpson completed 21 of 25 passes with two touchdowns, and Fernando Mendoza, the No. 1 overall draft pick, had a composed debut. Games that count begin next month.

Practice games exist so new players can figure out what they're doing. Several rookies arrived already knowing, which feels like cheating.

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Hockey remains between seasons. The puck has not moved since July, and the department respects that.

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