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Former Houston Astros prospect Danry Vasquez has been released by his current Atlantic League club after video of a domestic violence incident became public this week. The video shows the player hitting his girlfriend multiple times after a practice with the Corpus Christi Hooks, the Astros’ Double-A affiliate, in August 2016. Vasquez was arrested on domestic violence charges at the time and released by the Astros, but the video of the beating was unseen by the public until this week. Here is the graphic, violent video, obtained via an open records request by KRIS in Corpus Christi: Vasquez and his girlfriend initially enter the stairwell at the Hooks’ ballpark with no indication that anything

Phil Mickelson defended Friday’s $9 million (£7 million) winner-takes-all showdown with Tiger Woods, as fellow pros questioned whether it had value to the game. The match is on pay-per-view in the United States but Sky Sports are showing it in the UK. Publicity photos of Mickelson and Woods posing behind tables overflowing with wads of dollars, provoked fury on social media.