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Could This Make Golf More Enticing?

By Brian Wagner | June 19, 2009 | The Purple Trojan

Usually I like to keep this space reserved for long and qualitative editorial writing, but this video is one of a only a few exceptions to my norm behavior. I spend a lot of my time on the internet, scorching through hilarious video after another, looking at blogs, and gaining the majority of my daily knowledge through the web. This morning as I was devouring SI’s daily Hot Clicks, Jimmy Traina highlighted a new sports video, saying it was hilarious and one of the best he’s seen. I am going to attest to that. This video bring two of my loves — golf and basketball — and combines them. And an added bonus with some Gus Johnson in the mix, too! Enjoy!...

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Why We'll Never See Quite Another Basketball Phenom Like Michael Jordan

By Celticsfanatic | June 19, 2009 | Celtics 17

God is described as the supreme being. The creator and ruler of the universe. Except for the whole "creator and ruler" part, that's basically how most people define Michael Jordan -- from a basketball sense of course.Jordan won six titles with the Bulls, the time spans being divided into two periods -- 1991-1993, and 1996-1998. He was awarded MVP five times, and NBA Finals MVP six times; one for each championship.Above all, Air Jordan is seen as the greatest basketball player ever. In the history of the game. He is owner of one of the most recognized, popular, and biggest household sports names throughout the country, and likely the world. After reading this article from Bleacher Report, I've had some sort of an epiphany. Michael Jordan was undoubtedly special. You could certainly say he was one of a kind. Kids did and still do admire Jordan, as well as current...

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Say It Ain't So: Why Professional Sports Are Manipulated

By Celticsfanatic | May 28, 2009 | Celtics 17

NBA (first round) mock Draft!After a 61-foul (including two technicals and a flagrant) NBA Playoff game (3) between the Cavaliers and Magic, I felt I had to bring up a somewhat touchy point -- the possibility of altered outcomes in professional sports.The definition of physical in sports these days is not what it used it be... to say the least. Referees, umpires, you name it, they are all eager to blow the whistle or issue a warning whether the intention was there or not. The amount of fouls in today's NBA is nothing short of horrendous (as shown in the example above), as well as the amount of fouls, ejections, etc. It all depends on the sport being played.After the conviction of NBA referee Tim Donaghy (found guilty of gambling on NBA games), there has been a lot of suspicion throughout the Association. After an altercation between NBA referee Joey...

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Tiger Woods Out to Prove He's Back at Doral

By Evan | March 12, 2009 | MVN Outsider

Today begins the CA Championship, at Doral Golf Resort in Miami, Florida, and golf's biggest star, Tiger Woods, will be playing.The event will be his second since recuperating from ACL surgery on his left knee; his first stroke play event. His first event was the Accenture Match Play last month, where he lost in the second round.Woods has always enjoyed Doral, never finishing lower than 10th in a PGA Tour Event there. He is a three-time CA Championship winner, the most memorable coming in 2005 when he faced off with Phil Mickelson, who had won the Masters in 2004 and would win it again in 2006, with the 2005 winner being none other than Woods himself.According to ESPN, Woods is upbeat about his physical situation, saying that his play in the Accenture Match Play was a huge litmus test and "it was better than I thought it would be."Woods' No....Read more

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Golf: The next "Driven" game

By Evan | December 25, 2008 | MVN Outsider

For the holidays, I got my brother a book called Driven: Teen Phenoms, Mad Parents, Swing Science, and the Future of Golf by Kevin Cook. I haven't read it, but the summary was interesting enough for me to want to talk about it:No longer the realm of quaint traditions and a few weekly hours practicing chip shots, junior golf has evolved into a fierce training ground, where ultra-high- tech cameras provide cutting-edge swing analysis and young players spend almost every waking hour on the driving range. Reporting from the front lines of this brave new game, veteran golf journalist Kevin Cook spends a year inside the guarded, security-gated David Leadbetter Golf Academy, a three-hundred- acre golf mecca where teenagers attend an on-campus high school and live in dorms alongside state-of- the-art putting greens, video facilities, and manicured links--at a cost to their parents of more than $100,000 a year. As...Read more

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Could This Make Golf More Enticing?

Why We'll Never See Quite Another Basketball Phenom Like Michael Jordan

Say It Ain't So: Why Professional Sports Are Manipulated

Tiger Woods Out to Prove He's Back at Doral

Golf: The next "Driven" game