Archive for the ‘Golf’ Category
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Golf can be so vanilla that colorful storylines often get significant attention: Tiger's fall from grace, John Daly being himself on and off the course for the better part of 25 years, and lately, the character that is Robert Allenby, who witnesses claim wanted to fight fellow Aussie Geoff Ogilvy ...
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Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Down under, the Americans retained the Presidents Cup in the ninth biennial event, held at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Snoozefest. And the worst part is, no one is trying to hide it.
Johnny Miller put it best midway through Sunday's single matches, "These guys out here are all ...
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
Quick, name the dude in this picture. No cheating. Here's a hint: It's not your loan officer. Or your physics teacher. Or former Sports Illustrated writer Steve Rushin.
Give up?
Yes, you have, unless you cheated.
The answer is Bill Haas, and apparently he's the best golfer in the United States. This of ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Mother Nature has found a number of ways to cancel or cut short sporting events over the years.
Baseball games are routinely rained out. The college football season opener between Michigan and Western Michigan was called early due to lightning. Even a game at the indoor Metrodome had to be moved ...
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
Scientists have finally found a cure for Dustin Johnson choking in the final round of golf tournaments: hurricanes! (The kind that blows off the ocean, not the kind you drink before getting behind the wheel of a car... er, too soon?)
Despite falling short of its predicted end to one-quarter of ...
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