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August 25, 2010
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Elin Nordegren speaks:
In the interview, Ms. Nordegren would not disclose the amount of the divorce settlement but did say "money can't buy happiness or put my family back together."
"I'm so embarrassed that I never suspected not a one. For the past 3 1/2 years, when all this was going on, I was home a lot more with pregnancies, then the children and my school."
posted by rumple at 02:55 PM on August 25, 2010
Of course you know what's going on right now, don't you? Spurs are all over these Young Boys and have already put two balls behind them and hit the target. The commentary is a minefield. Jim Beglin at one point said: "I just thing Spurs need to get tighter to Young Boys in the middle of the park, I mean right up in their faces."
[2-0 Spurs at halftime (Crouch and DeFoe), so they lead 4-3 on aggregate]
posted by JJ at 03:39 PM on August 25, 2010
"Crouch! Yes! Spurs are coming! Prepare for more nights like this."
3-0
posted by JJ at 04:04 PM on August 25, 2010
Reminds me of when Mark Martin was driving the #6 car sponsored by Viagra. The commentators wouldn't say his sponsor's name (and they usually don't during a race, anyway). But at one point, Benny Parsons made the comment "that #6 is looking awfully stiff since that last pit stop." The rest of the crew was silent, probably due to microphones being shut off to cover their laughter...
posted by MeatSaber at 04:24 PM on August 25, 2010
And with that, the Gooners can stop saying that we're not actually in the Champions League. HA.
COYS.
posted by boredom_08 at 04:37 PM on August 25, 2010
Young Boys got spanked. Peter Crouch has never looked better with balls on his head.
posted by rcade at 05:03 PM on August 25, 2010
In your regular dose of golfing disqualification hilarity, Jim Furyk's cellphone battery ran out of juice while he was asleep, so the alarm didn't go off and he missed his tee-time.
Those cheap crappy travel alarm clocks won't do that.
posted by etagloh at 05:37 PM on August 25, 2010
Here's a story from the Forced Rivalry Bureau...
So, legend goes that while playing at the Olympia back in 1976, a fan gave Paul McCartney a Red Wings sticker, which he affixed to one of his guitars. While it's not known if he's a Wings fan, he was playing with his band Wings at the time, and thought it fitting. The sticker is still there today. He played two shows in Pittsburgh this month, in their new Consol Energy Center, and for the second show, the guitar sported a Penguins sticker as well...and it wasn't exactly his idea...
posted by MeatSaber at 07:36 PM on August 25, 2010
Gary Bettmann still an idiot, film at 11.
posted by etagloh at 10:11 PM on August 25, 2010
I feel a bit sorry for Furyk - late for the tournament, fair enough, but late for the pro-am shouldn't mean disqualification. I understand you need to find a way to make them all turn up for the pro-am otherwise I suspect most of them would give it a miss, but this seems overly harsh. On the other hand, where the hell is Furyk staying that he couldn't get an alarm call, just in case?
posted by JJ at 05:15 AM on August 26, 2010
Most people think it was the snooze, but no, no snooze.
posted by tommybiden at 07:19 AM on August 26, 2010
I feel a bit sorry for Furyk
Does jail time really benefit anyone here, what about just a fine? Sorry, wrong thread, but really ...
This definitely qualifies as the other golf rules infractions we've seen recently ... it's a rule, know it, make sure you live by it, but man ... I agree, seems like there could be a scale for punishment for this kind of mistake ... late 5 minutes, buy your amateur partner a bottle of bubbly and give the resident charity a nice little sum ... late 30 minutes, be prepared to fork over a percentage of your weekend's winnings ... late an hour, go home for the weekend.
posted by littleLebowski at 09:13 AM on August 26, 2010
late an hour, go home for the weekend.
Isn't the point to force them to show up? How about, late an hour, be Charles Barkley's caddy for 72 holes?
posted by apoch at 10:40 AM on August 26, 2010
Most people think it was the snooze, but no, no snooze.
Well done, sir.
Shit, I build some redundancy into my wakeup the night before I golf, and they're not paying me to be there. Then again, I might be more excited about playing one of the three or four rounds I get to play per year these days than Furyk is about a pro-am.
posted by tahoemoj at 11:07 AM on August 26, 2010
If you get there within ten minutes you're just penalised a couple of shots; later than that and you're out. I suppose the problem is that if they change the rule to it just being a fine, most of the top guys will see that not as a fine but as a payment they need to make (and that most of them would gladly make) to avoid having to play the pro-am.
The alternative is to dispense with pro-ams altogether. Stupid concept anyway in my view, surely rendered (financially) unnecessary in these days of such high earnings.
posted by JJ at 11:57 AM on August 26, 2010
Harold Connolly, 1956 Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw, dies at age 79. Connolly was an educator, coach, promoter of the throwing events, and heavily involved in the Special Olympics. Ironically, he died as the result of a fall from a treadmill while working out.