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SPRINGFIELD, N.J. -- The Latest on the PGA Championship (all times EDT):4 p.m.Sergio Garcia always draws attention as the best player never to win a major and this week he tries to end the streak again and it will be on a course he likes.Ive taken a couple looks, he said of Baltusrol Golf Club. Course looks great. Very, very good shape. Obviously a couple new tees here and there from 2005. The lake on 18, obviously its a little bit closer to the fairway than it used to be, but the course looks really, really good. Obviously I like what I see. Hoping to play nicely this week again and have a chance coming on the weekend.2:30 p.m.The PGA of America has no plans to move next years championship out of Charlotte despite the North Carolina law limiting protections for LGBT people.The tournament is scheduled for Quail Hollow, a regular spring stop on the PGA Tour.PGA of America CEO Pete Bevacqua reiterated his organizations opposition to the law on Wednesday, but made it clear the PGA Championship would remain at the course.We are trying to do everything we can, as part of our strategic plan for our organization in golf, to make the game as inclusive as possible, Bevacqua says.We can only control so much. We cant control the policies, the rules and the regulations around the country and municipalities and states. We can only do what we can do. And well try to make that PGA Championship, like we do every PGA Championship, enjoyable, inclusive, and shine a great light on our organization and the game of golf.Asked how the NBAs decision to move its All-Star Game out of Charlotte next year affects the PGA, Bevacqua adds:Of course we took notice of the NBAs decision, and you know, we came out with a statement shortly thereafter. ... Well continue to be vocal about our opposition. And quite frankly, we really hope it changes.1:50 p.m.European captain Darren Clarke has tapped Sam Torrance as his fifth and final vice captain for the Ryder Cup.Torrance was the winning captain at The Belfry in 2002. He played on eight European teams, and he won the clinching point in 1985 when Europe beat the Americans for the first time since between 1981 and 1995. He might be most famous for raising both arms in triumph when Europe won in 1985 for the first time since 1957.Clarkes other vice captains are Padraig Harrington, Thomas Bjorn, Ian Poulter and Paul Lawrie.The matches are Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 at Hazeltine in Minnesota. Europe will be going after its fourth straight victory.---12:05 p.m.Defending champion Jason Day got his first look at Baltusrol on Wednesday -- one day before the start of the PGA Championship.Day is an example of how the Olympics have crowded the golf schedule this year. He went from the British Open to Toronto to defend his title in the Canadian Open, and now he plays the final major of the year.The worlds No. 1 player decided to take Monday off to conserve his energy, and then he missed Tuesday because he was sick. Day typically gets to a major venue the weekend before.The 28-year-old Australian is trying to join Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners of the PGA Championship in stroke play. 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Now Green and Plumlee are key cogs in the Suns surprising breakout season. PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- This banner. This arena. These two teams.Its not hard to imagine that this is where destiny meets disappointment. Or where hope meets reality.The Pittsburgh Penguins raising of their 2015-16 Stanley Cup banner to the rafters of the newly named PPG Paints Arena Thursday night was first and foremost a testament to the teams recent history. The teams championship last June came after a tumultuous regular season that saw a coaching change and myriad questions about the teams character all answered emphatically when they downed the San Jose Sharks in six games in the Stanley Cup finals.For those reasons, its an achievement that will never be forgotten, the banner a constant reminder of that time. But the moment the banner stopped fluttering high above the Penguins logo, that shiny piece of history was quickly be placed aside in pursuit of something else historic: a second straight championship.We dont need to think about [repeating], GM Jim Rutherford said. Its hard to win one. We know that. We all know its hard to win two. But one of the things [coach Mike Sullivan] is continually saying is, Lets just play.Lets just play. And play they did Thursday night, with the Penguins ultimately coming out on top of a wildly entertaining affair 3-2 in a shootout to open their defense of the Cup.The witness to the festivities -- actually, they came out shortly after the banner had made its trip north to the arena rafters -- the Washington Capitals?couldnt have been more perfectly chosen as the team to face the Pens on this festive night.The Capitals and their captain, Alex Ovechkin, have played the foil to Sidney Crosbys Penguins throughout the past decade, during which the Pens have won two championships. The Capitals are still looking for their first franchise Cup win.Whether or not the schedule makers did it on purpose, I dont know, said Capitals forward Justin Williams, a three-time Cup champion himself.But he admitted there is a sour feeling being the other team on a night of banners and celebrations of past glories, especially when those glories came at the expense of the Capitals.Last season, the Capitals roared through the regular season finishing 16 points ahead of the Penguins atop the Metropolitan Division and won the Presidents Trophy as the top team in the NHL. They won it every which way: heavy, fast, high-scoring, button-down. And when the two teams met in the second round, the first time in the postseason the two teams had met in the Crosby-Ovechkin era since an epic seven-game second-round series in 2009, there was a crackle at what might unfold.Even though the Caps won Game 1, they seemed to chase the series throughout, ultimately bowing out in overtime in Game 6 in this very building.So, cruel joke or not, it was indeed fitting the schedule makers gave the Capitals the task of waiting out the pregame ceremonies and cheers and appearance of the Stanley Cup one last time before the start of a new season.Indeed, as much as theres been a constant magnetism between the two teams since captains Ovechkin and Crosby, who missed Thursdays game while recovering from a concussion, came into the league in 2005, there is much that binds them this season.Both will have to guard against looking too far ahead and wanting too much to prove themselves before the time for proving is at hand.After we won it, its a little bit easier to not rush the process, said Penguins center Eric Fehr, who might have the best perspectivve on the dynamic that exists between being a champion and being perpetually disappointed, having been a first-round draft pick of the Capitals in 2003.ddddddddddddI think when you lose out, youre extra hungry to try to force that getting into playoffs. I think, for us, were just taking it every game to trying to make sure we prove why we were the champions.No team has repeated as Stanley Cup champions since the 1997-98 Detroit Red Wings.The team before that?The Penguins, in 1991 and 1992.Phil Bourque was a defenseman on those two Cup winners in the early 1990s. Few know this Pittsburgh team as well as Bourque -- now an analyst on the teams radio broadcasts -- and in spite of the fact that the team will begin the 2016-17 season without Crosby, Bourque believes they might be as well-poised to repeat as champions as anyone since that Hall of Fame-laden team in Detroit almost two decades ago.The leadership core is rock-solid, and they might have the best one-two goaltending tandem in the league with Marc-Andre Fleury, who was excellent making 39 saves Thursday while playoff sensation Matt Murray?is recovering from a broken hand.But theres the group of hungry youths who were so critical to the Penguins playoff success in the form of Bryan Rust, Conor Sheary, Tom Kuhnhackl and Brian Dumoulin.All the pieces are in place, from up top all the way down, Bourque said.But this smartly played, emotional game Thursday was also a reminder that the Caps have legitimate claims on defying history, mostly their own. There are so many attributes from top-end coaching and management to the defending Vezina Trophy winner Braden Holtby, who was outstanding Thursday, to perennial goal-scoring champion Ovechkin, to three-time Stanley Cup champion Williams, to emerging star Evgeny Kuznetsov and the inextinguishable Nicklas Backstrom.If there is such a thing as destiny, is this time for Washingtons to reveal itself?Ovechkin admitted a different emotion came with being on hand for the Pens banner raising.I wish we had this position in Washington, but we didnt, Ovechkin admitted. Hope this year were going to do it. ... I think its time for us.Veteran NHLer Mike Rupp likewise believes the Capitals are a team capable of finally breaking through and winning it all. But he cautioned that the challenge for them might be more mental than anything.When a team has as dominating a season as the Capitals did last season, so many times thats your opportunity, Rupp said. Individually, thats your year to win.But they didnt. Theyll have to deal with that.I think everyones kind of tired of talking about what-ifs and you guys were so good here, why cant you do that, Williams said. I think this season you just want to let the play speak for itself. Sure, well have to answer questions. Its just part of the history of whats happened [in Washington], but I think just kind of focus on letting the play speak for itself. We love our team as we did last year, and I think were e

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