Back in the day when I was sports editor of The Courier-Journal and covering most of the major national sporting events, the Masters golf tournament always provided a welcome transition from a month of NCAA tournament basketball to the final weeks leading up to the Kentucky Derby.
For one thing, it was great to be […]

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I have no idea who came up with the idea of New Year’s resolutions, but I’ll bet it was a Stone Age wife who got sick and tired of her husband lying around the cave, stuffing his face with dried bat wings and sucking down a brewsky and trying to figure out his Fantasy Dinosaur […]

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Tiger Woods’ driving has been erratic for years so it’s not surprising that he hooked – or shanked, I’m not sure which – his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree at 1:30 a.m. the morning after Thanksgiving. His wife pulled him out by knocking out a window with a club – we don’t […]

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Tom Watson always has loved links golf so much that in a prior life he probably played with Old Tom Morris or Young Tom Morris or Sir Harry McDivot or one of those other Scotsman who inflicted upon the world their type of whiskey and the greatest individual game ever.
So besides all the emotional stuff […]

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Nobody asked me, but…
If the NCAA is serious about cleaning up big-time college athletics – and sometimes I wonder if it is – it should adopt a rule similar to the “trainer insuror” rule in thoroughbred racing. The rule stipulates that if an illegal medication is detected in a horse’s system, the trainer is automatically […]

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Those golf nuts who have been waiting for years to see Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson paired on the final day of a major championship got their wish at the Masters. The game’s two best players were tied heading into the last round, and, at the end of a spectacular duel that lived up to […]

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When the noted Kentucky football fan Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death,” he obviously had no idea how cold and dreary it can get in Memphis at this time of year. Indeed, to be perfectly honest, the death of the 2008 Wildcat football season would have been preferable to the Liberty […]

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To: Mr. Eldrick “Tiger Who?” Woods
From: Team America
Re: Easy Ryder Cup at Val Holler
Hey, buddy. Just kidding about that “Tiger Who?” stuff. We know that “you da man,” as those drooling idiots in the galleries like to yell from time to time. It’s just that we’re pretty deep in the champagne here in Louisville, Ky., […]

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When I found out that I had been selected to be a marshal at the 37th Ryder Cup at Valhalla, my first fantasy was that I would be the guy to tell Colin Montgomerie, the notoriously thin-skinned and ill-tempered British player, that his tee shot had been picked up and carried away by a rabid […]

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When I was sports editor of The Courier-Journal, I tried to cover the U.S. Open golf tournament every year. I did it mainly because I believe Louisville and southern Indiana is a golf hotbed. Of course, it helped that I loved to play the game, one of Dan Jenkins “dogged victims of inexorable fate.”
So I […]

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