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Morning Links: If Phil Mickelson Wants His Ball, He’ll Have To Come Get It

While you were sleeping, SportsGrid was up all night watching TV and searching the internet for links to help get your day started. Today, we bring you Phil Mickelson: ball-grabber, updates from the NFL preseason, and an athlete marries his stalker?

- During the third round of the PGA Championship, Phil Mickelson’s shot landed in a spectator’s lap. Because golf is a gentleman’s game (aka it has crazy rules from the 1300′s), the spectator couldn’t move, and Mickelson had to retrieve the ball himself. Yes, full ball grab. Kind of brings new meaning to “dong shots,” doesn’t it?

- Sam Bradford made his St. Louis Rams debut, going 6-for-13 for 57 yards. It has to be considered a successful start to his career, especially considering he took his first NFL hit and his shoulder didn’t explode.

- Colt McCoy’s first NFL action, on the other hand? Not as successful. He threw two interceptions in his Cleveland Browns debut, and had to leave the game because of a minor hand injury. That wouldn’t have happened to Tim Tebow.

- Brandon Marshall also had an iffy start with a new team, coming down with a serious case of the oopsies in his first game as a Miami Dolphin. In Marshall’s defense, it was raining throughout the game. Sidenote: are baseball fields-within-a-football-field the worst thing ever? I say maybe.

- And finally, in crazy athlete news: “NFL player Chris Chambers married his mistress Stacey Bernice Saunders on July 24, 2010 in Las Vegas after she received over 11 misdemeanor counts for allegedly stalking him”

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