Weird tourney finish

Not sure which was weirder yesterday -- the overall finish to the PGA championship in Wisconsin or the fact that, locally, it was moved to a cable-access channel because of impending preseason football coverage.
The potential PGA champion grounds his club for a two-shot penalty on the 18th hole and misses out on a playoff. The golfer admitted grounding the club and admitted not reading the rules ahead of time ...
Jump in and give your take.

New low in Broncos coverage

Channel 4's instant access to the Denver Broncos produced one of the most worthless stories in 35 years of some pretty bad Broncos coverage.
It was a spoof on quarterback Tim Elbow's haircut -- the one that made him look like a monk. The lead sports person cut someone's hair (don't you need a license for that?), then paraded the kid in front of the $33 million third-string man who has yet to do anything other than get a hair cut.
It belonged on the station's weekly recap of all things Broncos. It had no place in the 10 p.m. newscast.

Time out from sports, time in for friends

GOLDEN -- It was a trip for research into an upcoming story.
It turned out – in part – to see a friend I hadn't seen in years. His name is Tom Young. He was paralyzed 20 years ago during a rescue on Lookout Mountain. His story is on the link ...

http://www.pinnacol.com/acom_docs/annual_report_2009/PinnacolVideos/video1.html

This doesn't seem right

Pittsburgh, one of the worst teams in the majors, splits a four-game series with the Rockies, picked by some to win the N.L. Western Division but a team that apparently can't play on the road and obviously defines Jekyll and Hyde to a "T."
So what do the Pirates do? They fired their bench coach and hitting coach today.
Say what?

Just imagine

I'm trying to think of the day when that former Florida quarterback -- someone Elbow? – actually does something on the football field.
It will be a day of breaking news. Someone will start KLBO Radio – all-Elbow, all the time. There will be posters, fliers. Theater audiences will stand as one and sing the praises.
All for a completed pass.
Until then, we will be treated to breathless updates about him tying his shoes, flopping in mudholes and scruffy beards.
And bulletins as they break.

He's at it again

Great line on the radio this morning, courtesy of Jim Ribble of CNN Radio.
"Brett Favre has decided to retire – for the umpteenth time.
"Guess we have six more weeks of summer."

Little League oversteps replay

The Little League World Series will expand its replay rules to include including force outs, tags on base paths, missed bases and hit batters this year.
It smacks of overkill.
It takes away the judgment part of the umpires' efforts. In this day and age where we blame everyone for everything, who doesn't mind a poorly founded discussion for a week about an umpire's wrong call?
The other thing that's particularly galling has to do with the umpires themselves. They are volunteers. To subject men and women who do this for the love of the game to this sort of scrutiny is hard to comprehend.
At least ESPN can put its 5,000 replay angles to some use.