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LPGA Tour will suspend memberships if players don't learn English The LPGA will require its member golfers to learn and speak English and will suspend their membership if they don't comply.
posted by BornIcon at 09:35 AM on August 27
9 year old with a 40 mph fastball, gets the boot. I'm not sure what to make of this. On one hand I can see the punishment for being very good. On the other hand they allowed him to either play a different position or go up to the next level. I really dont know what to think about this but I have a 9 year old who I think could hit him :)
posted by firecop at 01:14 AM on August 27
If the kid didn't try out for the team and his parents paid for him to play, then where is the issue? The league didn't say "you can only play so long as you're not above this skill level," they just said pay your money, and you're in. And if this is a case of a league administrator throwing a fit because this kid wouldn't join the admin's team...then way to be buddy. I cannot stand THOSE types of people involved with youth sports. They live their youth athletics over because they couldn't hack it is a child so now they have "power" and are going to get their way. God gifted that kid with some great talent...whiney administrators and other players parents should shut it and let the game be played.
posted at 10:12 AM on August 27
Steve Yzerman Duped. How an 11-year-old (and his dirtbag father) fooled the Selke, Conn Smythe and treble Stanley Cup winner, and future Hall of Famer.
posted by lawn_wrangler at 11:31 AM on February 01
Can't pretend I like Steve Y...and I still have nightmares about that 1996 goal being the blues fan I am...but damnit, what a hell of a guy off the ice to have done all that stuff for a sick kid. Then you've got this dousche coming and bs-ing his way into free tickets, hotel rooms, and just overall taking a positive action and ruining it. I do believe that the punishment should fit this crime and in this case, he aught to be put out on the ice with just the league's enforcers for the length of that 1996 playoff game blues vs. wings. Only instead of handing out penalties for roughing, each time Davis gets hit, that's a pay bonus for the NHL players. What an ass.
posted at 11:27 AM on February 01
The Super Bowl Economy Surprisingly, the NFL and the athletes on the field are not the richest beneficiaries of the big game. Players on the winning team each take home $78,000; on the losing team, each player gets $40,000. The league's biggest take is from merchandise hawked at the game venue, at the online NFL shop, as well as at retail stores across the country. The sales record for such merchandise was set in 1997, at around $125 million, and sales have hovered just below that amount in the years since
posted by BoKnows at 04:36 PM on February 01
That's insain that over the course of a few short hours, and win or lose, these guys are going to get a BONUS of a minimum of $40,000! I don't make much more than that and I have to work the whole year to get that. Damn genetics.
posted at 11:11 AM on February 01
NBA players' financial security no slam dunk A statistic was cited during the meeting that startled some of the hoopsters. It was said that 60% of retired N.B.A. players go broke 5 years after their cheques stop arriving.
posted by tommytrump at 02:04 PM on February 01
I have to wonder what the reason behind posting this article even was. Is anyone really shocked that professional athletes so often go broke? Not to single out the NBA because we are all familiar with problems in all of the professional athletic platforms, most recently the NHL's crying about not getting paid enough millions to play a sport, but the NBA's players seem to have a knack for getting into fights with fans, complaining about their lack of funds, and of course the off the court issues...Mr. Bryant anyone? It's pretty well highlighted that when these people reach the "elite" level of athletics, you're unofficially expected to live that "elite" lifestyle in order to protect the image of other players. Image will always be a factor for anyone in the public eye, no matter what it is that makes you famous. With that said, I can't defend those guys because they make more money then I'll end up accumulating over my entire career. I am willing to bet, however, that I'll end up more financially sound, in the respect of my retirement status, by the time I'm 35 (I'm 25), than the majority of pro athletes will when they are finished with their tour as a professional athelete. Being paid millions for years and coming out with nothing to show for it isn't anyone elses fault but the person who pissed it all away themself. No emphathy for NBA, NHL, MLB, or NFL players from this guy.
posted at 11:05 AM on February 01
I do believe the US government could take a note here from this one in reference to citizenship in our country...but as far as the LPGA goes, this is outta line. Why can't those girls get a translator like that tree sized chinese basketball player? I don't think you need english in order to have good golf.