Archive for June, 2009

The U.S. Open has been going on so long now, it could be considered a tune-up for next year’s U.S. Open.  Actually, the Open has been going on since Thursday, and today is Monday, which means it’s only been extended by one day – but there was so much golf crammed into so many little windows between biblical deluges this weekend that it surely feels like it’s been 40 days and 40 nights since the first player teed off. I lost track somewhere of which round it was, but I’m told we’re now in the 4th, which, unless there’s a [...]

The U.S. Open has once again been delayed by weather.  Play was scheduled to resume on Sunday at 7:30 ET, but the USGA elected to push it back to Noon.  This means there is no hope of the third and fourth rounds being completed by the end of the day as planned.  So, for the second straight year, there will be U.S. Open golf on a Monday.  Of course, last year it was only Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate playing, with Woods ultimately prevailing over the personable veteran.  This year it will be everyone. The rain has done more than [...]

Legendary football hero and activist Jim Brown always has a lot to say about everything, and this time, he is saying stuff about Tiger Woods – and not good stuff.  Seems Brown is just about the only person on earth who doesn’t think Woods deserves to be fawned over like the golfing Dalai Lama.  Brown’s issues with Tiger center around Tiger’s well-known reticence to speak out on any social or political issues whatsoever: You know what’s so interesting about Tiger to me? He is a killer, he will run over you, he will kick your ass. But as an individual [...]

Maria Sharapova Flashing (Sports Rubbish) Every Team In Pittsburgh Rocks! …. Wait, Music Video (NESW Sports) “Year One”: Rebuilding Process Fan Survival Guide (Fansided.com) Top Ten Athletes With Illegitimate Kids (Gunaxin) My Earliest Sports Memory Poll (The Results!) (Steady Burn) Jim Tracy: Six Two And Even! (Josh Q. Public) Let’s Play the Steroid Speculation Game (Major League Jerk) Sammy So-Busted (Zoner Sports) Having A Mascot Is Good, Having A Dry Humping, Inflatable Shark As A Mascot Is Even Better (No Guts, No Glory) Yeah, There Are Steelers Fans in Iran (PSAMP) Central Processing – Rotation ERA (Kings of Kauffman) 2009 [...]

We interrupt this sports blog to announce a matter of profound interest to anyone who enjoys watching fine-looking young starlets get it on with their boyfriends with the sort of reckless abandon one can only experience when one thinks one will never see what they are doing: Leighton Meester has a sex tape…and celeb-hotline.com has the stills to prove it.  Site is NSFW. We now return to our usual boring golf coverage and snarky commentary about athletes’ criminal behavior.

The rain finally let up on Long Island, allowing the puny mortal golfers to resume the U.S. Open.  So far the big buzz has been for Phil Mickelson, who is this year’s inspirational story, by virtue of his wife having breast cancer.  Everyone wants Phil to win – because his wife is sick.  People would be really disappointed if Phil lost – cause it might make his wife, who has breast cancer, feel even worse. The TV announcers, especially that pinhead Mike Tirico, have not been shy about bringing up how inspirational Phil is.  I personally haven’t felt this inspired [...]

Serena Williams goes for a run, sporting a t-shirt that says, “Are You Looking at My Titles?”  No Serena.  We’re waiting for you to go by so we can see how your pants are managing your assets.

Don’t worry if you didn’t know the UFL was holding its draft Thursday night – no one outside the league seemed to know, and this was apparently by design.  By the time the event itself went down, the only means of following the picks was, somewhat bizarrely, via Chris Mortensen‘s minute-by-minute tweets.  Much like the post-election violence in Iran, the UFL draft happened without the mainstream media knowing or caring, but thank goodness for Twitter. This leaves one big question:  why would a new, upstart professional sports league hold a player draft and not bother publicizing it?  Isn’t part of [...]