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 [...]

PGA: FedEx Cup

I don’t understand the attraction for fans to the FedEx Cup.  The players are not all that excited to be playing in the four tournaments.  Tiger said he intends to play all events where Phil and his excuse, I mean wrist injury, will only play in the last two events…maybe.  The money is big, $10 [...]

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 [...]

LPGA: Natalie Gulbis is no Kournikova

Natalie Gulbis finally raised a trophy and got the monkey off her back at the Evian Masters in France.  Arguably one of the best woman golfers since turning pro, Gulbis has been very consistent always flirting with the top spot.  Jang Jeong, who lost to Gulbis on the first playoff hole, birdied three of the last four holes to tie Gulbis. This [...]

LPGA: Them’s fightin’ words…

Annika Sorenstam doesn’t think much of former teen sensation Michelle Wie.  Once the most talked about golf talent since Tiger, Wie is struggling to find her place.  Pulling out of last weekends Ginn Tribute after 16 holes with a wrist injury said to have occurred running in a park, and aggravated on the first hole, [...]

The Players Champ

Phil Mickelson played a calm, cool and collective final round 69 to win his first Player’s Championship victory.  The “5th Major” looks to be a launching pad for a new Phil with new coach Butch Harmon.  Time will tell if this new partnership will get Phil to the number one spot in the world ranking [...]

FORE!!!

Tiger outlasted the field on Sunday to take the Wachovia Championship.   This could start a roll where Tiger starts to win big for the summer.  Next up is the Players Championship, the often referred to fifth major and a month after that is the US Open. 
We saw some new and old names at the top of the [...]

Is MJ joining the tour?

He probably could help the ratings…

Golf’s Coming back…

With the US Open coming in about six weeks, we will start to see top player come out of their shell a bit.  Will so many tournaments, and so few brand names, golf disappears between major tournaments.  Now, with the Player’s Championship next week, there is added interest in May golf. 
This years Masters was exciting [...]

Sports Weekend Wrap

A decent sports weekend with the NHL playoffs taking center stage.  There were some great games both Saturday and Sunday - with NBC getting a winner with Pittsburgh v. Ottawa on Saturday afternoon - Pitt won in a thrilling contest.  Vancouver beat Dallas in another OT game (2-1) Sunday night.  The Lightning stole one from [...]