Golfing In Colombia: The Only Risk Is Wanting To Stay
Bogota, Colombia: Camilo Villegas, Colombia, South America’s poster child for golf, won the Honda Classic in Florida on Sunday, his third PGA Tour victory. He beat Anthony Kim by five shots. Literally minutes before, in Colombia, American veteran golfer Steve Pate won the first Nationwide Tour event in South America ever.
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No Apology Necessary -- Canada Deserves To Celebrate
The Olympic fortnight has ended and Canada can be proud of their performances – both with hosting the sports extravaganza and with their own athlete’s achievements. They are gracious hosts. They handled a most difficult task – staging an Olympic Games for the world to enjoy and they pulled it off in their usual understated, humble and efficient manner.
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It's Finally Bode Miller Time
One of the Olympics I have had the privilege of covering for the network radio rights holder was the 2006 Winter Games in Torino. I was hired as an Alpine skiing correspondent and play-by-play commentator for Westwood One. Bode Miller had come into those 2006 Games as the favorite to win five medals in Alpine...
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Tiger's Actions Will Speak Louder Than Words
Tiger’s hope to repair his tarnished image got off to a good start with the seemingly heartfelt, 13 minute statement he wrote and expressed in front of a small group of family, friends and colleagues. The whole world was watching...
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Nodar Kumaritashvili Did Not Have a Hermann Maier-like Ending
What a tragic start to the Vancouver Winter Olympics! When I heard the news that 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili, the luge athlete from the Republic of Georgia, crashed and died during a training run on Friday, it certainly did cast a dark cloud on the start of the Vancouver Games.
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Super Bowl Snippets: Sean Payton, Roger Daltrey, Tim Tebow, Archie Manning...
Phil Mickelson predicted it! Among all the football experts and prognosticators who had most of the country convinced that the Super Bowl would be a high scoring game and that the Colts would win, it took a golf star to get it right!
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Federer And Serena Win Slam, While Mickelson Gets Slammed
The sport of tennis got off to a smashing start when its two top players, Roger Federer and Serena Williams, won the Australian Open singles titles this past weekend, which means both have the chance to attempt to win the ‘Grand Slam of Tennis,’ winning all four Major tournaments (Australian, French, Wimbledon and the US Open) in the same year.
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Brett Deserves Better
Overshadowing the Saints first trip to the Super Bowl is the Brett Favre retirement chatter. Moments after the Vikings heart breaking loss in OT to the Saints in the NFC Championship game, the Brett Favre retirement talks began.
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A Survivor's Story
Brett Favre of the Minnesota Vikings Yes, that still sounds a bit weird, but what is not unusual is his stellar play, competitive drive and his ability as a 40-year-old quarterback to play brilliant football and most recently, to throw four touchdown passes to lead the Vikings over the Cowboys on their way to the NFC championship game.
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Zero Tolerance
What Kool Aid mix have several college coaches been drinking lately? In a little over a month, three college coaches have exited due to mistreatment of players.
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Top Stories of 2009
Happy New Year! Looking back on my top sports stories of 2009, several of the best stories in sports came in the two sports that I cover the most -- tennis and golf! They are positive stories from inspirational sports performances...
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A Decade Of Dominance
My choice for top athlete of the decade is the legendary and classy Roger Federer. Talk about dominating in sports -- all of Federer’s fifteen major titles were won between 2003-2009...
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Remember When Tiger Was Just A Golfer?
Last Wednesday, the Associated Press announced their ‘Athlete of the Decade.’ And drum roll please…most of you know by now that the ‘Athlete of the Decade’ is none other than the guy who everyone has been talking about for the past four weeks now – Tiger Woods.
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Can We All Move On?
It is amazing how for over two straight weeks now, ‘Tiger Gate’ has dominated the news. It has become the longest running story and the biggest story ever to focus on the private life of a professional athlete.
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Tiger's Tale
'Tiger Gate' may not subside for a long time. As days and months go by, more and more women may reveal their private experiences with Tiger in exchange for money.
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