Just a quick update from AWITP headquarters: We’ll be at Pelham on Thursday as the Jay Across America Tour continues, then it’s off to Winged Foot for the Anderson Memorial Fri-Sun, followed by six days live from U.S. Open at Merion. Top that all off with one more story from Casa de Campo, and I am officially on overnight deadline for the next two weeks.
Bag? Check. Laptop? Check. Clubs? Check. We’re ready to launch our first of many tours this year for the Magazine, for Cybergolf, and for my first book. This is a big one: tomorrow it’s Chambers Bay, site of the 2015 U.S. Open where we will play the course and interview Mike Davis – the head of the U.S.G.A. himself and get his thoughts on many...
JOHNS FREAK, GA – Lunatics! Scoundrels and heathens! Upstarts, rogues, and charlatans! Drag them over carpet tacks and dip them in rubbing alcohol, the lot of ’em. May a pack of Tiger Woods’s prostitute harpies give them a disease featuring a particularly viscid eczema. Despite the best efforts of American Airlines, Delta, and two scurvy-ridden...
It’s back! One of our favorite sidebars makes its triumphant return to save our staff from a slow news day and make Hell out of the lives of the vacuous lugnuts who use Facebook like a bullhorn. It’s the fifth edition of THINK! BEFORE YOU FACEBOOK SOMETHING STUPID! 10. Lady Gaga is so innovative! 9. Welcome back Keith Olbermann, we missed you. 8. I think...
Here we go again. You can’t make this stuff up…well I wouldn’t anyway. Enresto the Iguana, who handles sports prognostication, security, and runner duties around here wanted to get all Medieval on people who were making it impossible to read my Facebook page because they post 48 times a day (really…I have three friends on that pace…)...
MEMO FROM THE SPORTS DESK: That’s right, Ernesto the Prediction Iguana, (12-2-1 in his last three weeks of football picks!), is back with another edition of “Think Before you Facebook Something STUPID!” We all love Facebook, but when you get over 250 friends, it gets hard to keep track of everything when “friends” decide that any and...
MEMO FROM THE SPORTS DESK: Once again, life proves stranger than fiction, and people prove they still have not learned that not every thought is worthy of public expression. Ernesto the Prediction Iguana and I had this epic rant last time, and between many people responding that “thank God someone said something,” and getting four months of mind-numbing...
Top ten things to look forward to as we turn the calendar to May: 10. Tiger Woods playing at the Wachovia Championship. (Now that he”s back on TOUR, I suppose it’s not really “news” anymore that he;s playing in a tournament.) 9. Media Day at Bethpage Black for the U.S. Open. I’ll be writing about the few changes to the course...
We interrupt this sports website for a public service announcement. Most of you have met Ernesto. Ernesto is our Prediction Iguana. Ernesto correctly picked Padraig Harrington to win two straight Open Championships, (well done, Ernesto!), and had Italy in the 2006 World Cup. Ernesto also works security around here, along with other odd jobs. Ernesto said to...
As Sergio Garcia’s putt to win the Open Championship lipped out, an enormous cheer went up from the group of cart boys, starters and golfers that were gathered around the bar of a Maryland daily-fee golf course. It was a disgusting, unprofessional, puerile display. It sickened me to watch it and believe me I let a few people know about it. “I...
So Ernesto the Security and Predictions Iguana and I wasted ten bucks on this dreck. Apologies to my buddy Jay Kogan on this, but Pirates of the Caribbean: At Wit’s end, I mean Wallet’s End, I mean World’s End was baboon dung parfait. Ever watch Superfriends when you were a kid? That’s what this is. ***WARNING…PLOT...
The news that the PGA Tour may lose the International (and indeed a Denver tour stop altogether) is upsetting. The players and fans loved the venue and the unique scoring system was a welcome refresher to tired old medal play AGAIN. Anthony Cotton reports that one of the causes of the rift was the International’s unwillingness to become part of the FedEx Cup...
It’s time to get the following meaningless phrases out of the sports lexicon and time to give some REAL analysis instead. 1. “Step up” – as in “_____ has to step up during the playoffs.” Thanks for nothing. All you are saying is that X has to play well or play better. But what exactly does he have to do? Hit better? Complete a...
To: All Staff Writers, Columnists, Researchers, Wie Warriors I mean Wie Supporters, Marketers, Branders, etc. Fr: Editors Re: Michelle Wie (R) is 17 today After review of all field resources, consultation with the branding department, expert analysis from Martha Burk, three public opinion polls, and a note from Michelle’s dad, wie (R) have some operational...
Good news. After discussions with the greasy-haired geeks with pimples I call accountants and the brute hulking gorilla eaters I call lawyers, and surveying our field-resources, we have decided to expand. We have two new positions around here. First, after holding tryouts and reading pieces from some that were more thrilling than nil-nil draws in...