PGA TOUR: Jason Sobel is On a Roll

A major hat tip to ESPN.com’s Jason Sobel who alerted me to two stories I missed this week: 1) As I mentioned last week, Tiger is not only playing in this week’s Memorial, but he’s also playing in Jack Nicklaus’ Skins Game which takes place on Wednesday (Live at 1pm ET on Golf Channel). Phil [...]

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GOLF: Why I Love Golf

There’s a beauty to golf: a great tale can come out of nowhere. And while this PGA Tour season has been dominated by Tiger’s issues, Groovegate and more Tiger issues, some great storylines have been developing for the 2010 season. As we head towards the U.S. Open and golf’s 2nd major, let’s take a look: [...]

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TV SPORTS: NBC’s French Open Coverage & Announcers

Here’s NBC’s press release for their French Open coverage, including announcers: FEDERER, NADAL, AND THE WILLIAMS SISTERS HEADLINE NBC SPORTS’ FRENCH OPEN COVERAGE BEGINNING THIS SATURDAY “I am giving Rafa the edge to win this one.” – NBC Sports’ Mary Carillo “The best clay court player of her generation.” – Carillo on Justine Henin NEW [...]

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QUINNIPIAC SPORTS: Tom Moore “Exonerated” in Nate Miles Case

Two assistant UCONN men’s basketball coaches have been asked to resign in light of recruiting violations involving Nate Miles. Quinnipiac fans, if this story sounds familiar, that’s because then UCONN assistant-Tom Moore was involved in possibly breaking the texting rules. Well, according to his attorney, he’s been exonerated: Quinnipiac coach Tom Moore, who was a [...]

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PGA TOUR FANTASY: Colonial

Here we go: A: Phil Mickelson (Backup: Kenny Perry) B: Geoff Ogilvy (Backup: Hunter Mahan) B: Sean O’Hair (Backup: Y.E. Yang) C: Ben Crane (Backup: Ricky Barnes)

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PGA TOUR DIGEST: Vol. 3 No. 21

This week is one of the most popular events on the PGA Tour, the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, featuring defending champion Steve Stricker and 2008 champion Phil Mickelson. Mickelson’s scenario for becoming #1 in the world this week is fairly simple: win, and you’re #1. Now if it was only that easy. TV Coverage [...]

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TIGER WOODS: NOT 100%, Tiger Commits to Memorial

As expected, Tiger Woods committed to next week’s Memorial on the PGA Tour. But the quote he gave to his website was very telling: “The doctors advised me to take a week off and rest, which I did,” Woods said. “They prescribed physical therapy, anti-inflammatory medication and soft-tissue messages, which I’m continuing with. Although I’m [...]

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TIGER WOODS: We Return to Fridays @ 5

UPDATE: Looks like we already have our answer. Golfchannel.com is reporting tonight that Tiger will commit to the Memorial, and will also play in the Wednesday 9 hole skins game event that he won on a chip in last year. Tiger Woods has committed way early to every event he plans to play in 2010 [...]

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TV SPORTS: Tennis Channel’s French Open Announcer List

Here’s the Tennis Channel’s French Open press release, listing their announcers: TENNIS CHANNEL’S 2010 FRENCH OPEN COVERAGE BEGINS WITH TOURNAMENT’S FIRST SERVE SUNDAY, MAY 23 LOS ANGELES, May 17, 2010 — Lindsay Davenport, Bud Collins to Join John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova as Part of Tournament On-Air Team More than 240 Hours of Tournament Programming Set [...]

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GOLF: Tony Romo May Play in US Open

I know this is a couple days old but I really wanted to make sure you saw this story. Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo shot a 2-under 69, then survived 3 holes of a playoff to move past local qualifying for the United States Open. If he can now get through a 36-hole sectional qualifier [...]

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