PRESSBOX: J Schil’s Thought of the Week — January 19, 2011

(This post originally appeared on Press Box.) “Most-watched television show last season.” “Most-watched Divisional Round game ever with 43.5 Million viewers.” “At the height of its popularity.” Those are all accolades being thrown the National Football League’s way as the 2010-2011 season nears its end. Yet, labor peace seems far away. Peter King of SI.com [...]

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PATCH: Freehold Boro Beats Long Branch

(This article originally appeared on Freehold Patch.) The Freehold High School boys basketball team (5-5, 2-4) used a strong second half to defeat Long Branch High School (0-8, 0-5) on Tuesday 67-47. Jesse Hunt led the Colonials with 27 points. Long Branch was led by Kenny Barron who had 14. “A win is a win,” [...]

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PATCH: Neptune Beats Freehold Boro

(This article originally appeared on Freehold Patch.) The Neptune High School girls basketball team, currently slated at number one in New Jersey, remain unbeaten (7-0, 5-0) as they defeated Freehold Boro High School (3-8, 1-4) on the road today in a Class B North battle. Syessence Davis led the Fliers with 23 points; Sarah Cobb [...]

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PATCH: Toms River North Loses to Freehold Township

(This article originally appeared on Toms River Patch.) FREEHOLD, N.J. – Playing without their best scorer in Jennifer Galamb, the Toms River North Girls basketball team (2-5) fell on the road to Freehold Township (8-0) 66-39 Wednesday. Without Galamb, who missed the game with a knee injury, the Mariners had no match for Freehold’s Ashley [...]

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PATCH: Freehold Township Beats Toms River North

(This article originally appeared on Freehold Patch.) Behind 18 points from Ashley Stenftennagel and 15 points from Michelle Johnston, Freehold Township girls basketball team defeated Toms River North at home today 66-39. Kendall Kauffman led Toms River North with 21 points. The Mariners were playing without their top scorer, Jennifer Galamb, who missed the game [...]

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PGA TOUR: What It Means: January 24, 2011

(This article originally appeared on Prosportsblogging.com) Lot of stuff happened in the golf world today — here’s this week’s What It Means: Everything Surrounding Martin Kaymer’s Sunday: First of all, he won today in Abu Dhabi — his fifth in the last 12 months — and is now the number two player in the world, [...]

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PGA TOUR: What It Means: January 30, 2011

(This article originally appeared on Prosportsblogging.com) A great week at Torrey Pines kicks off this week’s What It Means: Bubba Watson Wins His Second PGA Tour event at the Farmers Insurance Open: Bubba is not all about distance anymore. Yes, he led the PGA Tour in driving last year at 314 yards, but his finesse [...]

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GOLF: PGA Championship Staying on CBS Through 2019

The PGA Championship, Glory’s Last Shot, will stay on CBS Sports through 2019. The PGA of America and CBS came to an agreement on a revenue sharing agreement that will keep golf’s final major on CBS for the foreseeable future. Jim Nantz is probably very happy at that news.

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GOLF: Play The 2012 PGA Championship This Summer

Every golfer dreams of being able to play the best golf courses in the world. This summer, you’ll have a chance to do exactly that — and play it in major championship shape. Golf Digest is reporting that Kiawah Island will let resort guests play the course in August as it will play for the [...]

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PGA TOUR: 2011 Players Advisory Council Announced

The PGA Tour’s 16-player Players Advisory Council was announced today: Jonathan Byrd, Michael Bradley, Ben Crane, Jason Day, David Duval, Jim Furyk, Tom Gillis, Charley Hoffman, Matt Kuchar, Billy Mayfair, Justin Rose, Webb Simpson, Paul Stankowski, Kevin Sutherland, Scott Verplank, Mark Wilson So if you have a policy question, go to them. Or you can [...]

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