AP Athletes of the Year

The Associated Press named its athletes of the year for both male and female athletes.  And the winners are…

Tom Brady, QB, New England Patriots

Brady is towards the end of an unbelievable season.  He is the true, and one of the last, superstar quarterbacks in football.  Brady is on pace to break Peyton Manning’s record for [...]

LPGA: No dogs or woman allowed

Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews is a historic golf course where Nicklaus and Woods have won and many other stories throughout the years of the men’s Open Championship.  This year the women take their turn at the Old Course.  The significance of this is that there used to be a sign at [...]

PGA: British Surprise

Sergio lived up to the hype and, as usual, his putter let him down…as well as the rest of his game.  Padriq Harrington captured the first Open Championship for an Irishman in 60 years.  He had the tourney wrapped up before dropping two in the water.  Then Sergio had to make par…just par…but failed to [...]

PGA: British Open

Yes Sergio Garcia has a two-stroke lead heading into the weekend but the real story is Phil Mickelson missed the cut.  In the year following his collapse at the US Open, Phil has been a non-factor in all of the majors and most of the tourneys.  What gives?  He may still be recovering from his [...]

PGA: Open Championship has Tiger written all over

Tiger Woods sets out to pull a three-peat at the British Open and it would be the first in fifty years (Peter Thomson 1954-6).  Carnoustie’s last Open, in 1999, was unforgettable as Jean Van de Velde blew a three-shot lead on the last hole of the tournament.
Tiger is at his best in the British Open and is [...]

PGA: The Open Championship

The Open Championship (aka the British Open) is already making noise with the weather.  This is one of the best majors because you have a more robust field - with a lot of European Tour players that don’t come to the US very often.  Also, the weather is the wild card because it can be [...]