It seems rank has its privileges. Ryan Fox got away with some airport extra special care, but then again, he did just win the Open Championship. Fox was boarding his commercial flight home when he had to ask the gate agent for permission to bring on TWO carry on items instead of one…the second being the Claret6 Jug he’d just won at Royal Birkdale. Outkick...
What’s the difference between at Titleist golf ball and a Cadillac Escalade? Tiger Woods can drive the Titleist 300 yards. Whaddya know? The rest of the world finally got to where I was two accidents ago. Tiger Woods is a dangerous, pain killer-addled menace potentially any time he gets behind the wheel. Oh the stories that are coming out from recent events...
Tom Kim is having entirely too much fun at Tiger Woods’s expense in this episode of Video of the WEAK! This is why video game golf on television is nothing more than a Silly Season idea. Tiger’s team of Woods, Kim and Kevin Kisner were already getting smeared by the weirdsville score of “9-3” when woods asked his teammates for a distance for...
The 105th PGA Championship and the second major golf championship of the year is in chaos today as a pedestrian was killed by a shuttlebus in early morning darkness, and world number one golfer and reigning Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested on a total of four felony and misdemeanor charges for failing to stop and obey police officers investigating...
So wait, is it Super Duper Duper Wild card weekend, or are there more dupers in there? Asking for a friend. Actually, the dupers in this case may be the Pittsburgh “How the hell are we in the playoffs?” Steelers. They’re the NFL equivalent of John Daly “dressing up” for Champions Dinner of either the Open Championship or PGA, take your...
If it’s true, Phil Mickelson should be banned from professional golf. Or is it one gambling degenerate trying to take down his feckless gambling degenerate buddy? Either way, golf deserves answers now. Billy Walters, the casino maven serving time for insider trading who was intimate buddies with pro golfer and five time major champion Phil Mickelson, has outed...
Popular and prominent chess commentator and Grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez faces multiple sexual assault allegations from no less than eight women, three of whom were underage at the time of the alleged instances of abuse. Starting in mid-February, two-time U.S. Women’s Chess champion and poker tour star Jennifer Shahade posted on Twitter a statement titled...
We’re sunk. Golf is sunk. At least the PGA Tour. I said weeks ago in print in this column:Â Tiger if you’re going to save golf, you better be squeaky clean, because if they get anything on you, we’re all sunk. Right on cue, we get not one, but two scandals. First we get Tampongate. Apparently Woods just forgot that every camera on planet Earth is...
We didn’t even have time to bask in the glow of the celebratory C Squared Podcast. Fabiano Caruana, the man who is, at present, America’s greatest living chess player, won his second United States Chess Championship in six years Wednesday, scoring 8.5 out of a possible 13 points and going unbeaten in the process, posting four wins and nine draws. Rising...
As if the chess cheating scandal wasn’t enough, now a pair of competitive tour fisherman were busted over the weekend trying to walk away with a tournament and season title after stuffing their walleye catch with lead weights and fish remnants. The remnants were used to prevent the weights from jingling when weighed or carried. Jake Runyon and Chase Cominsky...
The highest levels of professional chess have been rocked by insinuations of cheating, both over the board and on line. At the center of the swirling maelstrom stands five-time reigning FIDE world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who has hinted in both words and actions that he may believe that fellow professional player Hans Niemann of the U.S. may have had an...
In a breach as shocking as when “Birdman” strolled on to the 72nd green of the 2012 U.S. Open during the trophy presentation, a fan calmly strolled onto the 10th tee box during the first round of the Scottish Open yesterday, and took a club out of Rory McIlroy’s bag, and then tried a few practice swings. Video of the incident is here, with two...
Golfer Angel Cabrera, winner of the 2007 U.S. Open and the 2009 Masters, has been arrested in Brazil and is to be extradited to his home country of Argentina to face charges he assaulted three women, all of whom were ex-wives or former lovers. Nicknamed “the Duck” for his jaunty style of walking, Cabrera has been in jail since January when Brazil’s...
PGA Tour legend and 15 time major champion Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a one-car accident in Orange County California early this morning. The car rolled over several times, ended laying up on its driver’s side door, and Woods had to be extricated though the vehicle’s windshield with prying tools and axes. As of this report, Woods was in surgery...
Danish golfer Thorbjorn Olesen, a former European Ryder Cup player and current world number 62 has been suspended by the European Tour pending the outcome of his trial on charges of sexual assault and drunkenness on a flight from Memphis to London. According to various reports, Olesen was allegedly drunk and unruly with other passengers and had to be calmed by fellow...