Let’s tie up a few loose ends before you fall asleep in front of the TV due to tryptophan, I tuck you in, and head off to watch either NFL Network or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Jaime Diaz may have saved the best for last this year after this great retrospective of Johnny Miller appeared in the December issue of GD. Diaz is a formidable writer with a...
by Franklin S. Tower –Special to AWITP– MULKITEO, WA – In a stunning power swap, the Minnesota Vikings tapped Cybergolf.com Editor-in-Chief Jeff Shelley to become their new head coach. In a related matter, former Vikings coach Brad Childress will become the new editor-in-chief of Cybergolf. “From now on I will be editing Brett Favre’s...
The most grisly shuck in golf came to a delicious end today when PGA Tour officials essentially told the odious Turning Stone Casino that they are not good enough to host their own stand-alone tournament during the regular golf season. After failing to draw a major championship to their over-priced, under-designed chump-trap, and after failing to convince the Tour...
It was a Happy Halloween to everyone except Tiger Woods, whose year long Fright Night continued as he lost his World Number 1 Ranking to Lee Westwood. At the end of the day, who cares? The World Rankings were born of IMG’s desire to find something they could put in the sports pages along with an advertisement. The original went exactly like this: Quintessential...
This week two different Jezebels that Tiger Woods unwisely let get too close have been passing out their tabloid-esque tabs of black acid to anyone dumb enough to stick out their tongue. Porn star and hooker Devon James and high-end prostitute Loredana Jolie (no relation to Angelina except in general decrepitness) have been trying to sell their stories but with less...
He’s won three tournaments including the Tour Championship, and he took home the $10 million bonus. Jim Furyk may have stolen Player of the Year honors right form under Dustin Johnson’s nose, although Matt Kuchar supporters are still grumbling about his chances. You have to love Furyk. everyone says he has a calm demeanor, but they are wrong. He burns...
Let’s quickly reset the schedule of events, coverage, and articles for the next few weeks: 1. The British Open! 2. My preview and live coverage of the PGA Championship 3. Article on Pasatiempo 4. Atlantic City Country Club 5. Golf along I-84 in the NE corridor 6. Book reviews of Titanic Thompson (Kevin Cook) and Ancestral Links (John Garrity). 7. Stephen Kay...
Ari Fleischer might have realized the job is impossible: all the kings horses and all the kings men won’t be able to put the facade that was Tiger Woods together again. That’s a good guess as to why he’s already gone from Team Tiger: he put a plan in place and now implementing it is up to Steiny, but don’t look for a happy ending to that story...
Steve Czaban asks some pointed questions to the Florida Highway Patrol – and by implication the people supposed to turn over Tiger’s blood and the surveillance tapes from the fateful night…
Sounds a little like the South Park episode Wednesday: “Oh dude, here come the cops. We have to lie to them. Hit “x” to lie…”
Despite what IMG, Ari Fleischer, and Tim Finchem may blindly hope, America is most certainly not done kicking Tiger Woods; we haven’t forgotten “go to the bathroom and take a picture” quite yet. Just take the temperature of the public at large, then watch what the entertainment industry is doing and you’ll see the true feelings of the rank and...
Alleging harassment and cyberstalking, among other malfeasance, the Golf Writers Association of America has formally asked the PGA Tour to suspend John Daly for his vengefully publishing a sports writer’s phone number and encouraging his fans to harass him. Make no mistake, Daly is immature at best, dangerously anti-social and unhinged at worst. His conduct in...
I’ve been working on a longer piece about agent responsibility to not only their client, but the sponsors as well, but Mike Lupica of the Daily News has the same idea I do: It’s about time to hold agents responsible for whatever their role is in pandering, enabling or facilitating bad behavior or steroid use in their clients. Here is Lupica’s...
While a list of names is not yet available, according to Sports Illustrated, “Federal law enforcement officials have alerted a number of world-class athletes to expect grand jury subpoenas in the case against Canadian physician Anthony Galea, three sources familiar with the investigation tell SI.com. While it is unclear which athletes and how many will be...
Gatorade is now the third company to break completely from Tiger Woods in the wake of his epic collapse. The previous two were Accenture and AT&T. Two other sponsors have not cut contractual ties entirely, but have removed his image from ads: Swiss watch-maker Tag Heuer and razor-maker Gillette, a division of Proctor & Gamble. Two others that have stood by...
So whether someone thinks Tiger Woods’s conference was good for his image breaks down like this: Broadcasters: They are preconditioned and afraid of change. They are also beholden to the last dollar on the table. They want TV ratings to be high, and they still need Woods to show up for vanilla comments about nothing after rounds, so they won’t ask any...