PGA TOUR FANTASY: Week 17

Here we go for the Quail Hollow Championship: A: Tiger Woods (Backup: Phil Mickelson) B: Nick Watney (Backup: Sean O’Hair) B: David Toms (Backup: Boo Weekly) C: Charles Howell III (Backup: Retief Goosen)

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PGA TOUR DIGEST: Vol. 2 No. 17

Tiger returns this week — and 10 of the top 14 players are in the field — at one of the quickest-to-rise-to-the-top events in recent memory on the PGA Tour. It’s the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte. No, it’s not a new event folks. Wachovia was bought by Wells Fargo earlier this year, and after [...]

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NEW YORK JETS: Plaxico?

So the NFL Draft is rolling along on Sunday and ESPN‘s Chris Mortenson blurts out on national TV that the Jets have had internal discussions about possibly signing Plaxico Burress. That’s right, the former Giants WR that shot himself and may be facing around 3-5 years of jail time. The Jets and GM Mike Tannenbaum [...]

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NEW YORK JETS: Rating the Draft

This is a weird post for me in the sense that the Jets did indeed address a couple needs in this year’s draft — yet they left a gaping hole open. They needed a QB — and got that in Mark Sanchez — who will now push Kellen Clemens for the starters job. And they [...]

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NEW YORK JETS: Draft Day 2 Review

This is going to start a series of 3 posts about the draft: 1) What the Jets did on Day 2 2) How I Would Rate the Jets’ Draft 3) Plaxico Burress. On Day 2 the Jets traded up to get the first pick of the day and drafted Shonn Greene the Iowa running back. [...]

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BREAKING NEWS: Jets Get Sanchez

The Jets pulled off a blockbuster trade and traded their #17 pick, their 2nd round pick, Kenyon Coleman, Brett Ratliff and Abram Elam to the Browns for Mark Sanchez. I’m very very happy. Yes, we gave up a lot. But he’ll be able to do stuff for us day 1, or if not day 1, [...]

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Hartford Review

As posted on Backstreets.com: “Well, where do I start. My 15th show, in section 215 (an absolutely dead section). But an awesome show and crowd. Loudest crowd I’ve ever heard once the lights went down. Thoughts: 1) As you can see by looking at the handwritten, Jackson and Pete got flipped…Bruce waived off Kev and [...]

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MLB: Overpricing and Charity

Editor’s Note: I originally wrote the following post for my friend Andrew Vazzano for his Mets blog.) No, this is not another blog post about the overpricing of tickets or the lack of perfect attendance at early Yankee and Mets games this season. This post is about ideas. NBC Nightly News has been doing a [...]

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WQAQ SPORTS SITE: Fifth Golf Post on WQAQ Sports Blog for Spring 2009

(Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on the WQAQ Sports Site.) Bobcats continue final season with 7th place finish By Jeremy Schilling The Quinnipiac University Bobcats Golf team continued their final season by finishing seventh out of 10 teams at the Northeast Invitational Friday, April 17 in Providence, R. I. The Bobcats shot a combined [...]

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PGA TOUR FANTASY: Week 16

Here we go, the picks for the Zurich Classic of New Orleans: A: Kenny Perry (Backup: Mike Weir) B: Nick Watney (Backup: Steve Stricker) B: David Toms (Backup: Charley Hoffman) C: James Nitties (Backup: Charles Howell III)

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