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The Minnesota Lynx try to end a three-game skid when they host the San Antonio Stars on Saturday night at the Target Center in Minneapolis.Minnesota (13-3) won 13 in a row to break its own WNBA record for consecutive victories to start a season. The defending WNBA champions then fell to the Los Angeles Sparks, the Washington Mystics and the New York Liberty. The losses dropped the Lynx to second place in the Western Conference, two games behind Los Angeles.Weve won 13 games, played at a really high level, (and) its a very natural thing that the slippage happens, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said. I dont necessarily sense it. I didnt feel like, Come on, guys, we are winning games but we have to fix this. I think a little bit of it is not overreacting to it. Were not made of steel. ... Were human. ... I think the important thing is to make sure that you dont make excuses, you dont settle, and you know what you have to do to get back on track.The Lynx are coming off a 95-92 overtime loss to the Liberty. Maya Moore scored 24 points for Minnesota, but it wasnt enough to overcome a 30-point performance by New Yorks Sugar Rodgers.San Antonio (4-12) has lost five of its last seven games, but is coming off an 87-85 overtime victory over the Indiana Fever. Moriah Jefferson scored 31 points on 13-of-18 shooting and won the game with putback at the buzzer. Kayla McBride added 17 points despite making just 6 of 21 field-goal attempts.Moore is fifth in the WNBA in scoring at 18.8 points per game. Teammate Sylvia Fowles is fourth in field-goal percentage at 58.8 percent.Jefferson is fifth in 3-point shooting at 44.4 percent.This is the first time Minnesota and San Antonio have met this season. They meet again July 12 and Sept. 11. Cheap Air Max Sale . 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He first thought it would be Henrik Stenson, who won the British Open in that exquisite duel at Royal Troon. Then, he remembered Dustin Johnson winning the U.S. Open and a World Golf Championship at Firestone in consecutive starts.Spieth could only say for certainty that he most likely wouldnt be part of the conversation this year.I believe the player of the year award should go to someone who wins at the highest level, Spieth said Wednesday. Tiger won it in 2013 without winning a major, but he did win The Players, and the other events were all some of the best fields in golf. But I think that its hard to not give it to someone who has won a major championship.The next five weeks -- there is a one-week break between the third and the final playoff event -- figures to go a long way in shaping that race.Not to be overlooked is Jason Day, whose three victories include The Players Championship and the Match Play.I think a couple wins would be nice -- a couple more wins should do it, yeah, Day said. That should just take everything out, even with what Dustin has done. To have five wins, and especially two more wins in the playoffs, will obviously get it done.He makes it sound so simple, perhaps because thats what he did last year.Spieth was a shoo-in for PGA Tour player of the year in 2015 until Day won The Barclays and the BMW Championship, and suddenly Spieths amazing run through the majors -- two victories, a runner-up finish and missing a playoff by one shot at St. Andrews -- was in doubt. Spieth took care of that by winning the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup, completing the best year in the FedEx Cup era.And as Day has found out, winning isnt easy. He has gone more than three months since his last victory.It all starts to unfold TThursday at Bethpage Black, a course that makes nothing seem easy.dddddddddddd The Black came into prominence when it hosted the U.S. Open for the first time in 2002, and then seven years later in the rain. It last hosted The Barclays in 2012.The course is famous for its warning sign on the first tee: The Black Course is an extremely difficult course which we recommend only for highly skilled golfers.It should say its a risk even for really good players, Spieth said. The course Ive played the last two days is up there with the hardest, probably top-five courses Ive ever played in my life. And its Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, and its soft.Spieth has won twice this year and goes into the playoffs at No. 5. The trick is to stay there.The top 125 players qualified for the playoffs. Four players are not at Bethpage because they want to conserve energy (Sergio Garcia, Danny Willett) or play in Europe (Shane Lowry), or are injured (Anirban Lahiri).Only the top 100 advance to the next event at the Deutsche Bank Championship, and then the top 70 move on to the BMW Championship at Crooked Stick. The top 30 get to East Lake for the Tour Championship. The points are reset so that everyone has a mathematical chance at the $10 million bonus, and the top five only have to win at East Lake to capture golfs biggest payoff.Day is in the No. 1 spot going into the playoffs, barely moving past Johnson with his runner-up finish at the PGA Championship. Now that points are quadrupled for the next three events, this is the time of year to be playing the best golf.This is the 10th year of the FedEx Cup playoffs, and Day says they are starting to get some traction. The tour has created bobbleheads of the eight players who have won it (Tiger Woods is the only player to win it twice). Then again, its hard to ignore that other value of winning.Im not going to lie -- theres a big price tag at the end of the four events that is very, very motivating, Day said. You put that kind of number behind anything, thats very motivating for most people. ' ' '