The only way the prosecution can lose the Barry Bonds steroids/PEDs trial is o call in Mark Furmann. Today former Bonds mistress Kimberly Bell testified to her eye-witness injections of Barr-roid Bonds by Greg Anderson. She then testified to the medical effects the drugs had on his body. Her testimony was an exact match to the clinical reactions: rage, pervasive...
As expected, Barry Bonds’s trainer, Greg Anderson, refused to testify against his client and was remanded into the custody of corrections official. It’s the fifth time he’ll serve some sort of jail term for Bonds. It brings to mind that old conversation between Jackie Brown and Odelle Robbie… “If I have to do any time for you up to a...
The bang of the judge’s gavel in Barry Bonds’s steroids/PED/perjury will hopefully be the first carronade salvo against steroid/PED cheats in sports. Roger Clemens, stand up and take notice: that is if you can somehow overcome the psychological damage the drugs did to your brain. Meanwhile Timid Tim Finchem, the incredible shrinking PGA Tour Commissioner...
After a second embarrassing vehement altercation in six months with PGA TOUR interview subjects, Golf Channel broadcaster Jim Gray – who was called “pushy” and worse by fellow journalists and broadcasters – has been removed by Golf Channel from this week’s coverage of the Northern Trust open at Riviera Country Club. Gray, who was...
While we don’t have details yet, sad news reached AWITP today. Seminal NYC sports writer and broadcaster Joel Blumberg died yesterday. He was a young guy, and this is a terrible shock to all the golf writing, basketball, and hockey families. He leaves behind his lovely wife Jill and young daughter Miranda.
Please keep their family in your prayers.
Since silly season is upon us, I can turn my attention to Jay’s Golf Awards, known around here as the Jazzys. Last year, we only gave out two awards since the Tiger scandal scud-attacked every other story all December, (not to mention the rest of the year). We gave out the 2009 Turkey of the Year to Woods for being a poor sport and role model, but that was...
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...
Lots of people these days believe the old joke, “Insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result.” On that note – Quick! – someone decide quick whether to reserve a Bellevue bed or straight-jacket for Woods, Agent Mark Steinberg or both because New Tiger looks and sounds just like Old Tiger: new year, same...
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...
The divorce between Tiger and Elin is final. Doug Ferguson has the best write up of the divorce papers. From the article: “The divorce was granted in Bay County Circuit Court in Panama City, Fla., about 375 miles away from their Isleworth home outside Orlando. The couple had married in October 2004 in Barbados and have a 3-year-old daughter, Sam, and a 19-month...
I just got off the phone with a former rules official who tells me he would have been aggressive about reminding Dustin about that being a bunker, but that’s 20-20 hindsight. In today’s piece, I call out the broadcast for misleading viewers, but also Dustin, a guy I covered from his college days at Coastal Carolina. From the article: Let’s get...
HAVEN, WI – U.S. Ryder Cup Captain Corey Pavin stood his ground against sports broadcaster Jim Gray of Golf Channel yesterday in a heated, confrontational exchange in the PGA Championship media center. Responding to Gray and Golf Channel’s claims that Pavin had decided to offer Tiger Woods a Captain’s pick should Woods fail to secure an automatic...
The self-immolation of Tiger Woods continues at a frenetic pace, with little likelihood of relief until at least April 2011. After his third consecutive clueless round well over par, his rude and surly dismissal of no less a personage than Larry Dorman, the writer for the New York Times, is Exhibit A that Woods’s definition of “making my behavior more...
As if the news for Tiger Woods design wsn;t bad enough last week when porn-star/stripper/pay-for-sex girl Joslyn James (or Veronica Siwik-Daniels if you prefer) revealed emails/texts from Bryon Bell of Tiger Woods Design which purportedly show him assisting Woods with his trysts with James, the NY Times reports that the depression gripping the country in its iron...
Soooooooooo…the lugnuts running the grisly shuck called the “Tavistock Cup” tried to bully a journalist – and the president of the Met Golf Writers. It seems that the Tavistock Cup wouldn’t let Ron Sirak of Golf Digest cover their non-event because he wouldn’t wear a shirt of one of the teams and cowtow to the event’s gross...