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Tiger Woods and The Masters Illegal Drop Scandal

Tiger Woods was assessed a two stoke penalty at the Masters for an illegal drop!

Who called in to let the officials know that Tiger Woods took an illegal drop?

There are a number of conspiracy theories

but many believe that the call was from Sweden.

Apparently a beautiful Swedish viewer was the caller!

Elin Nordegren?????????

The Masters Rules committee says a 2 stroke penalty is enough!

The Golf Channel “experts” say he should disqualify himself.

What do think Tiger Woods should do after being told he made an illegal drop.

Some say:

1. He should be disqualified.

2. Tiger Woods’ Penalty Should Have Been Assessed On The Spot Or Not At All

2. A two stroke penalty is enough

4. Tiger should continue to play

5. Tiger Woods should disqualify himself

If  Tiger Woods disqualifies himself from the masters for the illegal drop, one thing is certain. TV ratings will go way down. Most of the “experts”, who are fuelling this scandal,  on the Golf Channel should realize that their jobs probably wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Tiger!

Tiger Woods and The Masters Illegal Drop Scandal

 to be continued…

Florida Gulf Coast Eagles March Madness Cinderella Team

Everyone is rooting for the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles in this year’s March Madness NCAA Basketball Tournament.  They defeated Georgetown in their first-ever NCAA tournament game and then went on to destry San Diego State.  They are the first-ever No. 15 seed to win two games in the tournament and advance to the Sweet 16 Round.

So far, the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles

are certainly this year’s Cinderella Story

To me the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles are best described by this quote:

“The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.” ~ Jerry Tarkanian

It also helps to have a few players like Sherwood Brown and Brett Comer playing like super stars!

Can the FGCE continue their magic Cinderella Run?

Next Game for the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles will be on Friday against Florida Gators ~ should be a great game!

The best part for me about the Florida Eagles is that they are feeling no pressure. That means they are having a really, really good time.

Love their celebratory chicken dances on the sidelines?

See the Florida Guld Coast Eagles perform the chicken dance at:

http://www.totalprosports.com/2013/03/25/florida-gulf-coast-sweet-16-first-ncaa-march-madness-tournament-gif/

March Madness and The Chocolate Easter Bunny

HAPPY EASTER 

The Easter Bunny prediction for March Madness 

Louisville

will win!

If Duke defeats Louisville,

then Duke will win the whole thing!

BUT THEN THERE ARE THESE GUYS!!!!

Everyone is rooting for the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles in this year’s March Madness NCAA Basketball Tournament.  They defeated Georgetown in their first-ever NCAA tournament game and then went on to destry San Diego State.  They are the first-ever No. 15 seed to win two games in the tournament and advance to the Sweet 16 Round.

So far, the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles

are certainly this year’s Cinderella Story

To me the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles are best described by this quote:

“The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.” ~ Jerry Tarkanian

How to pick the March Madness Winner – It’s Easy

NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament

The Big Dance

March Madness

No. 1 seeds heading into the tournament:

Louisville, Kansas, Indiana and Gonzaga.

The Cardinals are the overall top seed.

Free Printable March Madness 2013 brackets at:

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/bracket

NCAA March Madness

Scores & Schedule

1. Round of 64
2. Round of 32
3. Sweet Sixteen
4. Elite Eight

March 21–22

Midwest

1		L’Ville Louisville		Mar 21 6:50 PM
16		NCA&T North Carolina A&T

8		Col. St. Colorado St.		Mar 21 9:20 PM
9		Mizzou Missouri

5		Ok. St. Oklahoma St.		Mar 21 4:40 PM
12		Ore. Oregon

4		SLU Saint Louis		Mar 21 2:10 PM
13		N.M. St. New Mexico St.

6		Mem. Memphis		Mar 21 2:45 PM
11		SMC Saint Mary’s

3		MSU Michigan St.		Mar 21 12:15 PM
14		Valpo Valparaiso

7		Cre. Creighton		Mar 22 2:45 PM
10		Cin. Cincinnati

2		Duke Duke		Mar 22 12:15 PM
15		Albany Albany

West

1		Gonz. Gonzaga		Mar 21 4:10 PM
16		Sou. Southern University

8		Pitt. Pittsburgh		Mar 21 1:40 PM
9		Wich. Wichita St.

5		Wisc. Wisconsin		Mar 22 12:40 PM
12		Miss. Ole Miss

4		KSU Kansas St.		Mar 22 3:10 PM

6		Ari. Arizona		Mar 21 7:20 PM
11		Bel. Belmont

3		NM New Mexico		Mar 21 9:50 PM
14		Harv. Harvard

7		ND Notre Dame		Mar 22 9:45 PM
10		Ia. St. Iowa St.

2		OSU Ohio St.		Mar 22 7:15 PM
15		Iona Iona

South

1		KU Kansas		Mar 22 9:50 PM
16		W. KY Western Kentucky

8		UNC North Carolina		Mar 22 7:20 PM
9		Vill. Villanova

5		VCU VCU		Mar 21 9:45 PM
12		Akron Akron

4		Mich. Michigan		Mar 21 7:15 PM
13		S.D. St. South Dakota St.

6		UCLA UCLA		Mar 22 9:57 PM
11		Minn. Minnesota

3		Fla. Florida		Mar 22 7:27 PM
14		NW St. Northwestern St.

7		SDSU San Diego St.		Mar 22 9:20 PM
10		Okla. Oklahoma

2		G’Town Georgetown		Mar 22 6:50 PM
15		FGCU FGCU

East

1		IU Indiana		Mar 22 4:10 PM

8		N.C. St. North Carolina St.		Mar 22 1:40 PM
9		Tem. Temple

5		UNLV UNLV		Mar 21 7:27 PM
12		Cal California

4		Syr. Syracuse		Mar 21 9:57 PM
13		Mont. Montana

6		Butler Butler		Mar 21 12:40 PM
11		Buck. Bucknell

3		Marq. Marquette		Mar 21 3:10 PM
14		Dav. Davidson

7		Ill. Illinois		Mar 22 4:40 PM
10		Colo. Colorado

2		Miami Miami (FL)		Mar 22 2:10 PM
15		Pac. Pacific

All times are in ET

BUT, because…

I’ll go out on a limb, after a weekend of drinking green beer,

even Green Guinness

and predict the following…

Why is March Madness so popular?

Over $50 billion in illegal wagers are placed on college basketball games each year.

But interestingly!!!!

 The NCAA officially “opposes all forms of legal and illegal sports wagering, which has the potential to undermine the integrity of sports contests and jeopardizes the welfare of student-athletes and the intercollegiate athletics community.”

Great Inspirational Act of Sportsmanship

Should have a Kleenex handy for this.

With so many awful stories in the news these days,

I just love stories like this.

Amazing act of sportsmanship gets Mitchell Marcus his basket.

Mitchell Marcus is team manager for the basketball team at Coronado High School in El Paso, Texas. He doesn’t play for the team because of his disabilities, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s Coach Peter Morales’ favorite on the team or his love for the game.

In one of the final games of the season, Coach Morales decided to let Mitchell suit up and play in the last few minutes, hoping that Mitchell would score a basket, with no care at all whether they won or lost. Unfortunately, with his team members passing him the ball every time, it didn’t look like the game was going to go in Mitchell’s favor until, with only a little bit of time left, opposing team member Jonathon Montanez of Franklin High School did something amazing. He called out Mitchell’s name and threw him the ball, letting him score the final basket, despite Montanez’s team losing by 15 points.

“I was raised to treat others how you want to be treated,” Montanez told CBS News. ”I just though Mitchell deserved his chance, deserved his opportunity.”

Besides the players and the coach, there is another hero in this story!

Someone should thank the ref for not calling travelling on the inbound pass.

Tiger Woods Next Tournaments

Next tournaments for Tiger Woods are:

Woods’ next two appearances are expected to be:

Jack Nicklaus’ Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village, May 30-June 2,

and the U.S. Open at Merion, June 13-16.

At the Players he won US $1,710,000

“From what I saw the last couple of days he’s been putting great. That’s scary. The way he hits it and with his short game, that’s hard to beat.” ~ Brandt Snedeker

Here are some of the numbers the world’s No. 1 has compiled to now:

4: Victories in 2013. This is the earliest Woods has ever reached four wins in a season.

7: Victories in his last 21 PGA Tour stroke-play events.

52 of 56: Conversion rate when Woods has at least a share of the 54-hole lead.

78: Career PGA Tour victories. Sam Snead, with 82, is No. 1 on the list.

300: PGA Tour starts (including as an amateur). Woods also won in his 100th and 200th PGA Tour starts.

Golf Channel compiled some numbers for Woods over the course of his 300 PGA Tour starts:

78 wins (26%), and 28 seconds in his career.

125 top-3s, which is 41.7% of his starts, and 182 top-10s, which is 61% of his starts.

And he says he’s getting better?

 illegal drop 2 stroke penalty at The Masters  will be talked about for quite some time. Wonder who called to tell on him???

Maybe it was Elin!

http://www.e-forwards.com/2013/04/tiger-woods-and-the-masters-two-stroke-penalty-scandal/

Adam Scott of Australia celebrates after the fourth round of the 2013 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia on Sunday. Scott claimed the title after a playoff, becoming the first Australian to win the Masters. ( Xinhua News Agency/Newscom)

ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONALSo far this season, Tiger dominated the

the WGC-Cadillac Championship

PGA Tour Money Leaders 2013

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy out in first round of the Accenture Match Play Championship.

Both not too good at the Honda Classic in Florida.

Rory quits, makes very bad immature mistake at the Honda Classic.

Lucky there is no cut at the WGC-Cadillac Championship

Tiger Woods sets 2013 schedule, adds WGC-Match Play, Honda Classic, and Doral

Tiger Woods, as expected, officially committed to next week’s WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, as well as The Honda Classic and WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral.

It will be fun to watch Tiger Woods and and World No. 1 Rory McIlroy play in the next three tournaments.

Unfortunately, the best golfer in the world right now, Brandt Snedeker will miss the next tournament.

World No. 4 Brandt Snedeker will miss next week’s WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship to nurse sore ribs in his lower left side, sources confirmed on Tuesday.

Snedeker, who won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am by two strokes on Sunday to cap a torrid start to his season that includes a pair of runner-up finishes (Farmers Insurance Open and Waste Management Phoenix Open) and a tie for the third at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, is expected to miss three weeks because of the injury.

“I don’t know if it’s just weakness in that area, the way he sits on a plane, I just don’t know. I don’t think it has anything to do with his golf swing,” said Todd Anderson, Snedeker’s swing coach.

“Right now it’s a big unknown, he just wants to be sharp and ready for Augusta.”

Woods, ranked second in the world, won his PGA Tour season debut at the Farmers Insurance Open and will return next week at the 64-man Match Play event that he has won three times (2003, ’04 and ’08) 

 DO YOU THINK TIGER WOODS SHOULD PLAY

IN MORE GOLF TOURNAMENTS???

The Sochi Olympics and Russian Poverty

THE PUTIN GAMES

Russian authorities last week announced the latest costs related to the games, saying total spending would come to about $51 billion, which would make Sochi the most expensive Olympics in history.
With the Winter Olympics a year away, IOC President Jacques Rogge praised Sochi organizers on Wednesday and defended the

$51 billion price tag.

Just a little research will convince you that many people in Russia are very poor.

But Putin wants to fool the world into thinking Russia is a great country. It is a great place to live for a select few.

I wonder what Putin would do if most countries boycotted the 2013 Sochi Olympics.

In a perfect world that is what we should do. He is a dictator in ever sense of the word.

How will the Olympic games help the average Russian??

The venue for the Ski Jumping competition will cost approximately $265 million ! 4-5 times more than projected.
So much money spent on a “sport” that most people will never participate in!!!

WHAT A SHAME!!!

Golf Puns Fore Valentine’s Day

I’m crazy fore you

You make my heart putt-putt

Suited to a tee

We are a Par-fect couple

Golf Truths ~ Funny and Sad

Golf Truths

 

 

 

Don ‘t buy a putter until you’ve had a chance to throw it.

Never try to keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your mind during 

your swing.

When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either use one more club or two more balls.

If you’re afraid a full shot might reach the green while the foursome ahead of you is still putting out, you have two options: you can immediately shank a lay-up or you can wait until the green is clear and top a ball halfway there. 

The less skilled the player, the more likely he or she is to share his ideas about the golf swing.

No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

The inevitable result of any golf lesson is the instant elimination of the one critical unconscious motion that allowed you to compensate for all of your many other errors.

Everyone replaces his divot after a perfect approach shot.

A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponent’s luck.

It is surprisingly easy to hole a 30 foot putt. For a 10.

Counting on your opponent to inform you when he or she breaks a rule is like expecting them to make fun of their own haircut.
Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

It’s not a gimme if you’re still away. 

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the centre of a very large tree.

You can hit a two acre fairway 10% of the time and a two inch branch 90% of the time.

If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

Since bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad sho

t is actually the beginning of the next group of three.

When you look up, causing an awful shot, you will always look down again at exactly the moment when you ought to start watching the ball if you ever want to see it again.

Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he or she must subsequently make two double bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe.

To calculate the speed of a player’s downswing, multiply the speed of his back-swing by his handicap; i.e., back-swing 20 mph, handicap 15, downswing = 300 mph.

There are two things you can learn by stopping your back-swing at the top and checking the position of your hands: how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.

Hazards attract; fairways repel.

A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours.

If there is a ball on the fringe and a ball in the bunker, your ball is in the bunker. If both balls are in the bunker, yours i

s in the footprint

It’s easier to get up at 6:00 am to play golf than at 10:00 am to mow the grass.

A good drive on the 18th hole has stopped many a golfer from giving up the game.

Golf is the perfect thing to do on Sunday because you spend longer praying than you would do in church.

A good golf partner is one who’s always slightly worse than you are….that’s why I get so many calls to play with friends.
If there’s a storm rolling in, you’ll be having the game of your life.

Golf balls are like eggs. They’re white. They’re sold by the dozen. And you need to buy fresh ones each week.

It’s amazing how a golfer who never helps out around the house will replace his divots, repair his ball marks, and rake his sand traps. (Notice that this item was left as exclusively male)

If your opponent has trouble remembering

whether he or she shot a six or a seven, he probably shot an eight (or worse)… 

It takes longer to learn to be a good golfer than it does to become a brain surgeon. On the other hand, you don’t get to ride around on a cart, drink beer, and eat hot dogs when you are performingBrain Surgery !!!!

 

 

Lance Armstrong Doped ~ No Way!

Lance did it. He finally admitted it. Lance Armstrong doped.

Wonder how much Oprah paid Lance Armstong???

Only in America do people get paid to tell the truth.

On Thursday night with Oprah Winfrey on her OWN network, the disgraced former cycling champion Lance Armstrong, acknowledged what he had lied about repeatedly for years. Not only did he tale illegal drugs, but was also the ringleader of an elaborate doping scheme on a U.S. Postal Service team that swept him to the top of the podium at the Tour de France time after time.

The problem is, after so many years of lies,

who would believe him now.

Moral of the Manti Te’o Hoax

~ is summed up by:

Pete Thamel of Sport’s Illustrated

“There’s no more heroes any more – if there ever were,” Thamel said. That’s what sports has taught us – Lance [Armstrong], Barry Bonds, all of these guys.”

Add Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Alex Rodriguez,  Michael Vick, etc…