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Everywhere you look today, Augusta National and chairman Billy Payne are being heralded for finally inviting two women to join the vaunted host club of the Masters.

But did the membership still end up allowing women to be members “at the point of bayonet” as famously stated by former club chairman Hootie Johnson – and by waiting 10 years, were there far more people pointing sharp objects?

The conventional wisdom at the end of the regular season was that the Sixers needed an overhaul. With their playoff success, however, those roster questions should be revisited. And the answers may have changed.

This Phillies season started the same way the last one ended: 1-0. The difference is this time the Phillies won. Roy Halladay escaped a first-inning jam then cruised through the next seven innings as the Phillies handed the Pirates a 1-0 loss on Opening Day at PNC Park. Carlos Ruiz knocked in the game’s only run.