"It was like the Hope Classic in that way."

From T.J. Simers of the L.A. Times:

Played in George Lopez's National Kidney Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic and when I mentioned Andruw Jones' name, Lopez said, "A Dodger uniform just doesn't look good with a cummerbund."

In 2005 Lopez received a kidney from his wife, Ann, who tripped while coming onto the stage after the tournament dinner. "Don't fall," he told her, "I might need the other one."

For the last two years Lopez had tried to breathe some life into the Bob Hope Classic, which no longer featured an interesting field of golfers and celebrities.

Lopez was apparently too edgy for the folks who don't know a dying tournament when they have one, and so Lopez will no longer be affiliated with the Hope.

As a result, the Kidney Classic has a new host, the first tournament drawing such incredible stars as Frank Pace, R.J. Jarimillo, NinoCuccinello and Bryan Callen.

I know one of them was a star, because the tournament assigned a celebrity to every fivesome, part of the fun of the whole day guessing which one of our guys used to be somebody. It was like the Hope Classic in that way.