1st Annual Jean Short Open.

There’s a lot of big golf events this weekend.  Something called the British Open will be getting underway in Scotland on Thursday.  I’m picking Hunter Mahan by the way.  Just to make an official pick.  A lot of the sport’s attention will shift, however, on Saturday to a little hamlet called Phoenixville, PA.  The First [...]

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The Difficulty Debate.

A couple things made this question pop into my mind.  Why does a golf course have to be difficult to be considered good?  I’m headed to play Commonwealth National in Horsham, PA today, and it’s a very nice Arnold Palmer design, but it is easy to get the score headed North in a hurry.  You [...]

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Anecdote VIII.

Golf has this reputation as a sport of honor.  The stories of tour pros turning themselves in for rules infractions are always well publicized.  J.P. Hayes turned himself in for using a non-conforming ball during Q-School, and lost his card.  Certainly at the top level of the sport there is some integrity, but this is [...]

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Sign of the Times.

A lot of crazy stories over the weekend.  The shooting death of former Titans quarterback Steve McNair was a shocking piece of news.  McNair was an icon in the Nashville community, but now stories of his troubles begin to bubble to the surface. The reminders that we don’t really know the athletes we follow seem [...]

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Blake Griffin’s Last Hours as a Free Man.

So I guess I have to mention the NBA draft?  It’s tonight, starting at 7 pm.  I waited until now, because I figure everyone is about to split from work, and so it’s actually like I didn’t talk about it at all.  Blake Griffin is going number one.  Ricky Rubio doesn’t want to play in [...]

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Who’s David Price?

LaVar Arrington’s career may have peaked when he was laying out opposing punters at Penn State, but I will forever remember his line in response to a reporter asking him what he thought about Dan Morgan’s claim that Miami’s linebackers were Penn State’s equals.  LaVar responded, with complete sincerity, “Who’s Dan Morgan?” 
 The Phillies line-up performed [...]

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Anecdote V.

Ok, so someone said I didn’t say anything interesting today, so let me try to fire off a quick anecdote.  I actually am about to go play golf…but my loyal readers always come first.  Also, look at Mickelson  (and Duval)  go ahead Davey.  So this is a high school golf story, and since you’ve probably [...]

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Weir(d).

The only thing I know for sure about the U.S. Open at this point is that I will be keeping a close eye on it all weekend, and likely into Monday. So much more needs to shake out, that it is almost pointless to examine the leaderboard.  Currently, everyone’s second favorite Canadian, Mike Weir is perched atop the leaderboard at [...]

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The Bleakness.

Play is officially over for the day at Bethpage Black.  The players are scheduled to be back out on the course at 7:30 tomorrow morning.  ESPN will pick up coverage at 10 AM.  A very disappointing day, and now the schedule for the entire week will be compromised.  Depending on what the USGA does with [...]

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Can We End this Charade Please?

On the day that Alabama is forfeiting 3 years worth of football wins, and Urban Meyer said his players were mostly a good group, “despite the arrests” I thought maybe we could start a campaign to drastically change Division 1 college football…or BCS subdivision.  Whatever it’s called…
Sometime between when the idiots at Miami got off the plane [...]

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