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This week Cyd talks about the fool’s game of college football fans wanting to fire good coaches. Also, sports figures had a role on both sides of California’s Proposition 8. And Texas Tech’s hot QB Graham Harrell.

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This week Cyd talks about the rise of the crappy teams in the NFL, and he takes some pot-shots at Brett Favre. He also waxes poetic about the Americans in the Ryder Cup. He rips Yankee co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner for whining about his team being out of the playoffs. Plus, holding to a long-standing Outsports [...]

It was a rare Sunday this past weekend when I watched more golf than football. The Ryder Cup this year is now etched in as one of my favorite golf memories, and it may now be my favorite golf format. Pitting the Americans against the Europeans, the U.S. hadn’t won since a shocking come-from-behind in [...]

Does anyone remember seeing the pictures of a rambunctious (read: bratty) 7-year old Andrew Giuliani almost ruining his father’s inauguration as mayor of New York City in 1994? Well in the time between then and now, Andrew has focused all that energy into becoming a golfer, and a pretty good one at that.
However, it doesn’t [...]

I DVR’d the final round of the British Open and when I got around to watching it –with a break to watch the Angels sweep the Red Sox– there was one shot that summed up the day at Royal Birkdale for me: Greg Norman teed off and he hit the ball so badly that the [...]

I’m a staunch atheist, have been since I was 12, but I do firmly believe in one quasi-religious concept, redemption, when it comes to sports.
My example this week is the Australian, Greg Norman, who’s having a dream British Open under trying conditions at Royal Birkdale, in the North of England on the Irish Sea.  Steady [...]

That would be me.
When I got notification last year that I won tickets to the Saturday and Sunday sessions of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, I was ecstatic. Finally, I’d get within 10 feet of Padraig Harrington! So, there I was, last Saturday morning, waiting in the stands at the first hole for [...]

Tiger Woods has been lauded for several years now as possibly the greatest golfer of all time. He’s won Athlete of the Year awards. He’s No. 2 on the all-time list for Majors titles. But what he did this past weekend brought him from sports hero status to Sports Legend status.
His victory in the U.S. [...]

In case you missed it, the U.S. Open is going to a fifth day on Monday as Tiger Woods hit a 12-foot birdie putt (that nearly missed the hole) on the 18th hole to force a playoff with 45-year-old Rocco Mediate.
It was another memorable fourth round on Sunday. Tiger entered up a shot, but after [...]

Tiger Woods said last year at Oakmont, site of the 2007 US Open, that no 10-handicapper could break 100 at the course. I don’t know what a 10-handicapper is, and I don’t care. All I know is that this statement, like his comment this week that nobody watches hockey anymore, has effectively been proven wrong. [...]

During a teleconference on Monday promoting the PGA Championship, which is being held at Oakland Hills in suburban Detroit in August, Tiger Woods was asked (perhaps by a Detroit-area reporter?) if he was rooting for Detroit or Pittsburgh in the Stanley Cup finals. Woods laughed, then replied, “I don’t really care. Let’s talk about [...]

NOTE from a confused writer: I don’t know why this didn’t show up on Sunday night, but here it is, late and not-at-all timely!
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As I watched the final round of the Masters from a sunny but windy Augusta, I keep writing on stray bits of paper things like “Tiger horrible tee shot on 13″ [...]

Except for English football, because I love hearing them use words like “insouciant” while describing a touchline pass, I never listen to announcers while watching sports; I turn the sound off and listen to music instead. The only downside is that I have to rely on the onscreen graphics for stats. The third [...]

One of the things that always cracks me up about sports is the concept of Anointed Ones. The Anointed Ones are people or teams or nations that are considered so superior to their competition that it’s almost akin to kicking a basket of puppies to have them play their supposedly inferior competition. Case [...]

Let’s get what most sports fans care about out of the way at the beginning: Tiger Woods shot an even par 72, which puts him four shots off the top of the heap at the Masters in August, Georgia. In his previous four wins at the Masters, he’s been behind by at least three [...]