Ken Venturi finally retires.: This is the last week of the love fest for departing CBS golf announcer Ken Venturi. This sounds like a great thing, but every year he seems to be retiring, only to come back. So don't be shocked to see him back. The only thing notable to come from Mr. Venturi, 71, recently was his drunk driving arrest last year. He used the cliched, but still hilarious line, "don't you know who I am." Lanny Wadkins will take his place in the booth. What do you think about that?

posted by gov to golf at 11:34 AM - 4 comments

Griese Monkey Falls Down.: A spokesman "would not say if alcohol was involved on Sunday." I'll fill you in. Of course it was. This fella drinks more than Kid Rock at a barbeque on his Michigan ranch on the 4th of July. Griese would probably have been driving home, so it may have been good this happened. I don't want to be anywhere near this buffoon on the road.

posted by gov to football at 03:09 PM - 3 comments

Flyers cut the Barber.: Bill Barber is gone and the players want to get their parting shots in. That would be 5 coaches fired in 6 years under Clarkie. He must have dirty pictures of team owner, Mr. Ed Sninder. When will the blame be placed on the players or the GM, because the owner can't be wrong because he pays the bills? The system, the smishtem!!!

posted by gov to hockey at 08:21 PM - 2 comments

The Shark's Diary Entry.: On his website, Greg Norman talks about his Masters' first round and his relationship with Arnold Palmer. The strange thing is he tells a story that he thinks is funny about him drunk driving (5th paragraph from end). And in this story Lynne Truss thinks the shark was mocking Arnie yesterday.

posted by gov to golf at 06:08 PM - 0 comments

Rhodes arrested.: Indy's leading rusher beats his girlfriend. What esle is new? As a right of passage, you are not a real NFL ballplayer unless you beat your wife, girlfriend, or baby's mama. Can the public please stop supporting these scumbags. However if not for the NFL, the prison population would increase by about 1500.

posted by gov to football at 06:18 PM - 2 comments

The heckling continues for Montgomerie.: The American golf fans are at it again. I know I'm going to catch flack for this, but this is embarrassing to golf everywhere. Montgomerie is a little gruff and pouts when playing bad, but don't all the weekend hacks out there. These fools have never seen Monty off the course. When he is in a good mood, he is the brighest and most engaging golfer of all. I'm not joking. He is open, outspoken, and likable. Golf is a gentlemans game, so take your moronic, drunken outbursts to the football stadium.

posted by gov to golf at 08:02 PM - 7 comments

The Flyers just traded for a convicted rapist.: The Philadelphia Flyers decided they needed to add Billy Tibbetts, minor leaguer/part-time NHLer/goon/rapist/bb-shooter/cop threatener, to fuel there Stanley Cup Playoff run. Actually, he was about the only person in the league they could take back in exchange for the useless Kent Manderville and his bigger contract. People in Philadelphia are disgusted by the move, but the Flyers brass called Tibbetts' rape "consenual sex." Man, do they need to learn some public relations.

posted by gov to hockey at 08:33 PM - 1 comment