I’ve been kind of out of it this week. Somewhere between the pre-holiday busy-ness and the post-holiday tryptophan coma, I neglected to watch any news.  Football, yes.  Macy’s Parade, yes.  News, no.  I figured that if something truly noteworthy happened, it would filter down to me somehow.  Based on that plan, it appears that [...]

Michelle Wie is the female equivalent of Tiger Woods.  Both are of Asian descent, both excelled at golf at an extremely young age, both are charming and attractive.  But until this week, only one of them had won a PGA sanctioned golf tournament.
Michelle Wie, who at the ripe old age of 20 has ten years [...]

My favorite golfer in the world at this minute is Padraig Harrington.  He’s the 134th ranked professional golfer in the world behind Tiger Woods and 132 other guys of lesser renown.  He’s my current favorite golfer by a lot, but I admit that I’d never heard of him before today.
The reason I’m so currently fond [...]

This has been debated before, but what evidence is there for either side? On one side of the spectrum you must admit that golfers are usually in good physical shape and play through even extremely severe elements of weather. The opposite argument would point out that it would not appear to take much athletic ability [...]

A couple friends of mine are staunch Celtics fans (Royce and Scott), and another friend of mine (Chris) is a Lakers devotee. This inspired Chris to make the following wager:
With Lakers-Celtics set to tip off today, it’s important to get our wagers in order.
Scotty and I have agreed already. If the [...]

Where I grew up, my next door neighbor won the Powerball Lottery twice. Everyone called it insane luck and just shook their heads. Well, a golfer in Kansas got to experience similar luck this week. At Muscatine Municipal Golf Course, Ted Kemp hit back-to-back holes-in-one. Kemp, who is just your [...]

I watched a good chunk of the Masters for the simple reason that I am a Tiger fan and I watch him play any time I can.
But something happened on Friday that demonstrates why golf is different from every other sport. On Friday, amateur Michael Thompson was lining up a putt on the 15th [...]

The Masters tees off today, and, as always, every eye is on Tiger Woods. I am going to dispense with the talk about whether he is the greatest golfer of all time or not (BTW, I think he is). The question at hand in this posting is : How many Masters championships [...]

Ahhh… in the next two months 3 of the 4 great American sporting events take place. By my definition, a great sporting event is one where non-sports fans know it is something special and want to be a part of it. And in the U.S. there are 4 great American sporting events:
The [...]