Do The McEnroe's Want To Announce Golf?
/Reader Jim asked that question after watching week one of the ESPN2 telecasts of U.S. Open tennis.
Read MoreWhen you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
Kostis Tweets!
/Who knew, right? And after reviewing them, including a buddy bromance with Paul Casey and complaints about having to do four hours of a cable telecast, I think we're finally going to get to know more about the infomercial host and friend of all things Titleist.
Read More"It looks like 'Potpourri for $100, Alex.'"
/That's Gary Van Sickle's line from this week's SI Roundtable, which was joined by yours truly even though I vowed not to do it again until they found an old AOL chat room to make life easier.
Uh, I think it's safe to say I won't be offered a job at CBS or Liberty National anytime soon, and my friend Peter Oosterhuis probably won't be wild about my laughing gas comment either (he is giggly these days!).
ESTMATED 35.7 MILLION SUFFER THROUGH ALL-OR-PART OF CBS SPORTS’ COVERAGE OF 2009 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
/And survey's report a record spike in DVR sales directly attributed to CBS's promo-cluttered, commercial-heavy, golf-light broadcast.
Read MoreCBS Scores Ratings Spike In Spite Of Awful Coverage
/Despite relentlessly plugging CBS shows and having almost nothing prepared to tell us more about Y.E. Yang, the network scored the highest PGA ratings since 2002.
Read More2009 PGA Championship Clippings: The Final Round Got A Lot More Interesting Edition
/A golf tournament broke out Saturday amidst commercial breaks. So before we get to the scribblers, a word about CBS from new Tweeter Lloyd Cole.
Read MoreFartgate Latest: "I wonder what the running count is."
/Stephanie Wei has a "highly placed source" implicating Magruder as the fifth name to control the fund that financed the Watergate burglars David Feherty
Read MoreTiger Woods Finally Captures Elusive Nationwide Tour Win
/Geeze, did the big boys think Buick wouldn't pay out the purse? I know some people pointed out the quality of field for the final Buick Open, but this stat from CBS was scary.
Read More"I wasted a lot of years not taking things serious."
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The GolfChannel.com team probably flipped coins and Rex Hoggard lost, so he had to interview John Daly about his new Golf Channel reality show."It won't have the hustle and bustle as the last show."
/With a teaser like that I'm sure you can't wait to set your DVR's.
Read MoreGiuliani To Appear On Big Break; Finds Ideal Forum To Resolve Disputes With Father, Duke University
/From the NY Post comes this exciting news that the current season is filmed at Orlando's Disney World,
Read More“Criticizing Tiger Woods is like telling Muhammed Ali how to box or (Roger) Federer how to serve.”
/As usual TNT sent some of the highlights from their broadcast. This used to be the worst of Bobby Clampett, but we actually had some very nice commentary today.
Read MoreDVR Watch: Nicklaus-Snead Match
/I saw the plug for this last weekend and wondered about the details. Here they are courtesy of CBS, including high def...
Read MoreJohnny: BYU Better Prepares You For The PGA Tour!
/Richard Sandomir reports:
And NBC would have most preferred a Tiger Woods victory, but he wasn’t up to it, not even on two good legs. I fear that in Woods’s inconsistency throughout the tournament, Miller lumped him in this critical catchall.
“If these guys were really smart,” he said after some putts that didn’t meet his standard of preparedness, they’d have gotten a tape of the 2002 Open at Bethpage Black, “to study the breaks” of the greens.
Hicks replied to Miller, “A few do.”
“I’ll bet there aren’t two guys who do it,” Miller said.
“I’ll bet Tiger Woods did,” Koch said.
After Hicks subsequently named Mike Weir as one of those on the course who asked for a tape, Miller attributed Weir’s foresight to his attending Brigham Young University, where Miller was an all-American.
Anyone watching and heard this care to report whether Johnny had tongue planted in cheek? I know sarcasm isn't his thing, so I'm going to guess this wasn't a joke.
