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David Feherty: Hunting Pigs With .50 Cal Sniper Rifle November 11, 2009

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Best tweet of the week:

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Golfer Suspended From PGA Tour For Performance Enhancing Drugs November 2, 2009

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Except that his performance shows no evidence of being “enhanced”.

Sobel: Doug Barron’s performance-enhancing drug violation a solitary issue – ESPN.

The PGA Tour announced on Monday that Doug Barron has been suspended for one year after violating its antidoping policy. He’s the first player to receive such punishment since the system was implemented in July 2008. This news came on the heels of a season during which the longtime veteran earned exactly zero dollars in four Nationwide Tour starts and one on the PGA Tour while playing on a minor medical extension. And he wasn’t much better last year, either, making the cut in just five of 17 starts on the developmental circuit, earning $33,446 to finish 127th on the money list.

The Great White Shark and Chrissie: That Didn’t Last Long October 2, 2009

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And just before the President’s Cup, too…

Greg Norman, Chris Evert say they have separated | Tours & News | Golf.com.

Just 15 months after they were married, golf star Greg Norman and tennis great Chris Evert announced they have separated.

The announcement Friday comes three days before Norman is to captain the International team at the Presidents Cup in San Francisco, where wives of the captains take on a visible role.

Norman and Evert, each in the Hall of Fame in their respective sports, did not say whether they planned to divorce.

In a statement, the couple said only, “We will remain friends and supportive of one another’s family.” The statement said they requested privacy for them and their families.

Obama Fails To Bring Home Olympics To Chicago October 2, 2009

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I guess even the IOC couldn’t stomach Chicago corruption.

Rio de Janeiro to Host 2016 Games – washingtonpost.com.

The International Olympic Committee selected Rio de Janeiro over Madrid to host the 2016 Summer Games after eliminating Chicago in a stunning first round of voting Friday despite an unprecedented lobbying effort by President Obama.

Just hours after Obama left Denmark following a brief visit in which he made a personal appeal to the IOC on behalf of his adopted home town, Chicago received the least votes of the four competing cities in the first round. Tokyo fell out in the second round of the secret-ballot voting by more than 90 IOC members.

The victory for Brazil marked the first time that an Olympic Games had been awarded to a South American country. Huge crowds in Rio burst into cheers, applause and song at the news.

The fact that Rio prevailed was no surprise — the Brazilian bid was considered the sentimental favorite because the other contending countries have all hosted games in the past — but Chicago’s elimination in the first round produced audible gasps from those in the Bella Center ballroom where the voting took place.

She’s Got A Really Nice Swing October 2, 2009

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Thanks, Stephanie!

$1 Billion For Hitting A Little White Ball September 30, 2009

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Tiger Woods is the first golfer (indeed, first athlete) to hit the $1 billion mark.

Tiger Woods has been making history on and off the course since he joined the PGA Tour in 1996. First up was a record $40 million contract from Nike. The following year he won the Masters by a record 12 strokes, becoming the youngest winner ever and first black player to take the title. His career has been packed full of accomplishments, including major titles (14), annual money titles (9) and Player of the Year awards (9).

Now Woods can add one more accolade to his trophy case: the first athlete to earn $1 billion. Our calculations show that the $10 million bonus Woods earned winning this year’s FedEx Cup title nudged him over the $1 billion mark in career earnings.

News Flash: Concussions Aren’t Good For NFL Players September 29, 2009

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Yes, it’s true. A new study provides data that football players smashing their heads into other players isn’t really good for them.

Duh.

Study Indicates Higher Rate of Dementia in Former N.F.L. Players – NYTimes.com.

A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49.

The N.F.L. has long denied the existence of reliable data about cognitive decline among its players. These numbers would become the league’s first public affirmation of any connection.

The findings could ring loud at all levels of football, including youth and college programs, which often take cues from the N.F.L. on safety policies and whose players emulate their professional heroes. Hundreds of on-field concussions are sustained at every level each week, with many going undiagnosed and untreated; few concussions are as well known as that of Tim Tebow, the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback from Florida, who was hospitalized after a blow to the head in a game last Saturday.

Laura Dekker Pwned By Social Workers August 28, 2009

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No solo trip around the world for 13-year-old Laura Dekker.

Court Rules No Solo Sailing for Dutch Sailor Girl

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that 13-year-old Laura Dekker cannot sail around the world by herself next month as she’d hoped and has put her in the temporary care of Dutch authorities while it makes a final decision.

For the moment, Laura Dekker’s dream of becoming the youngest person to sail solo around the globe has been put on hold. She was not in court, but her father was present for the judges’ decision.

Citing potential harm to her development, judges ruled that Laura could still live at home but only under court supervision while an independent child psychologist assesses whether she’s able to make the two-year journey.

Laura, who has the support of her parents, had hoped to set sail next month but she now has to wait until at least the end of October when judges will make their final decision based on the child expert’s report. The court stopped short of taking custody away from Laura’s father as child protection workers had wanted.

“I like Lipitor and white collar crime.” August 15, 2009

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Looks like Bill Maher is off his meds again. Bill, golf is “I like Cialis and ProV1s”. Got it? Thanks!

Bill Maher: New Rule: A-hole in One Shouldn’t Be Obama’s Game.

New Rule: President Obama must give up that awful habit that sets such a bad example for young people. I’m talking, of course … about golf.

Golf, if you’re not familiar, is a pastime where you basically walk outdoors with a bag, muttering and cursing. It’s like being homeless in loud pants. Anyway, Time magazine is reporting that since he became president, Barack Obama has taken up golf with a passion, playing almost every weekend for the past few months — and I feel betrayed. He campaigned as a basketball player. It said to us, “I’m urban and athletic and hip and a team player.” Golf says, “I like Lipitor and white collar crime.” And it’s not just golf — he’s been purposefully eating a lot of hamburgers in public lately, to prove he loves meat. And he said that, unlike before he became president, he prays all the time now and that his Faith and Neighbor Initiatives Director sends him scripture on his Blackberry to start every day. Jesus, is there something about that house that turns people into assholes?

Chávez Wants To Shut Down Golf in Venezuela August 12, 2009

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I guess Hugo Chávez really sucks at golf.

Chávez Fans Push to Remove Legacies of U.S. Capitalism – Golf Courses.

President Hugo Chávez’s political movement has found a new target: golf.

President Hugo Chávez says some golf courses could be better used for the poor.

After a brief tirade against the sport by the president on national television last month, pro-Chávez officials have moved in recent weeks to shut down two of the country’s best-known golf courses, in Maracay, a city of military garrisons near here, and in the coastal city of Caraballeda.

“Let’s leave this clear,” Mr. Chávez said during a live broadcast of his Sunday television program. “Golf is a bourgeois sport,” he said, repeating the word “bourgeois” as if he were swallowing castor oil. Then he went on, mocking the use of golf carts as a practice illustrating the sport’s laziness.

The government’s broad nationalizations and asset seizures have gone far beyond the oil industry to include coffee roasters, cattle ranches and tomato-processing plants.