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Masters Statement: TV Viewer Narced On Tiger Woods
Here's the statement:...
Nick Faldo Calls On Tiger Woods To "Do The Manly Thing" And Quit
Golf Channel analyst and three-time Masters champ Nick Faldo crushed Tiger Woods this morning, claiming Woods made no attempt to obey the rules of golf and that he deserved disqualification—then pleading with Tiger to "do the manly thing" and retire from the tournament....
Tiger Woods Avoids Disqualification From The Masters For Cheating, Is Penalized Two Strokes Instead
Tiger Woods will begin Round 3 of the Masters five strokes behind the leader after tournament officials elected to punish him with a two stroke penalty for taking an illegal drop at 15 Friday after this disastrous turn of bad luck....
That's Good Parenting
It's 32 degrees in Minneapolis tonight, and there are two children at Target Field without shirts on....
Tiger's Third Stroke At 15 Bounces Off Flagstick, Almost Goes Into Hole, Bounces Into Water Instead
Tiger Woods's career is full of miraculous shots (16th at the Memorial, anyone?) but his seemingly perfect third stroke at Augusta National's 15th ended in disaster....
Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: <i>The Fresh Beat Band</i>
A regular look at the awful children’s programming you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours. Image by Jim Cooke....
Bob Costas Slams CBS And Jim Nantz Over Gutless Masters Coverage
Bob Costas went on The Dan Patrick Show and really quite beautifully torched CBS's Masters coverage for not acknowledging "Augusta's history of racism and sexism." Here's Costas:...
<i>The Daily Show</i> Takes On NCAA, Leaves Smoking Crater
The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi ventured into our familiar waters last night with a lengthy piece that delved not just into Minnesota wrestler Joel Bauman's NCAA-verboten singing career but Ed O'Bannon's megaton lawsuit....
Your Primer On 14-Year-Old Tianlang Guan's Prodigious 1-Over Day At Augusta National
Winning after the first round at Augusta National is the boy tied for 46th place: Tianlang Guan, the 14-year-old who as the youngest competitor in a major since 1865 sits just on the cut line at 1-over....
The Panthers Are Getting Some Of The Public Money They Wanted For Stadium Renovations
The North Carolina general assembly passed a bill this morning that will allow the city of Charlotte to allocate two tourism taxes toward funding for $300 million worth of renovations on the Panthers' stadium. ...
Five Places Jason Whitlock Won't Go Because The Food Is Too Good
Earlier today, Fox Sports's Jason Whitlock told Twitter that he wasn't covering this year's Masters. His reasoning was unexpected....
Tiger Woods Drops His First F-Bomb Of The Masters
Tiger Woods wasn't exactly angry at the result of his approach shot on the eleventh hole of his opening round at the Masters—I'd say he was more bemused—but that didn't stop him from dropping a big ol' f-bomb in range of NBC's CBS's microphones. Looks like he's having a good time out there, though!...
NHL, NHLPA Partner With Gay Rights Group
Mortal and philosophical enemies Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr will sit down together today and announce a pioneering partnership between the NHL, NHLPA, and the You Can Play Project (YCP), the latter a non-profit group formed last year to promote LGBT tolerance in sports....
Bird-Flipping Red Sox Fan Is Less Than Impressed By Chris Davis's Homer
The Red Sox are surprising fans and pundits with their quick start in the AL East, though the Orioles cut into that lead thanks in part to a ninth inning Chris Davis homer that sparked a five run rally. Davis's performance so far this season has been impressive—to everyone but Boston fans, at least....
The Masters Starts Tomorrow; Take A Look At All The Changes At Augusta National
Over the years, Augusta has gone through its share of changes and if you've ever been looking to see all those changes (most of them, anyway) in one place, here you go. ...
Benlands. Terrence Malick's <em>To The Wonder</em>, With A Silent Affleck, Reviewed.
1. You can make all the jokes you want about Terrence Malick's movies, particularly these last two later-era ones, whose interest in normal movie things like "plots" and "stories" and "coherent narratives" is minimal at best, but they knock my socks off. I know that both The Tree of Life and now To ...
