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That’s right its Playoff time! This week will start the 4 week run of playoff tournaments that will culminate at the season ending PGA Tour Championship in Georgia, where someone who isn’t Tiger Woods will hoist the trophy and cash in on the 10 million dollar first prize. Well I guess I should say 4 event run as the 3rd playoff event will be held three weeks prior to the Tour Championship ...
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The Daily Gopher has a possible Gopher schedule, which they got from Kentuckysports.com who heard from this guy who knows this kid who saw Ferris pass out at 31 flavors last night. But seriously, it hasn't been officially announced, so who knows how accurate this is, but it's pretty blah. Again. Vs. Louisville (Neutral): This is good. This is the marquee game on the schedule, and it's not ...
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So I'm still drinking and the wife is still drinking and the baby is sleeping and somehow we're watching Jaws 4, which is, without question, the worst movie of all-time. Now, I've mentioned both Jumper and Rudy as being possibly the worst movie ever, but that was just schtick. I mean, they're both top ten worst movies ever, but they aren't on the level of this piece of dirty dog poop. Jaws ...
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It's that time of year, when ESPN rolls out their ShootArounds, half-assed mini-previews in the dog days of Summer to whet your appetite for the basketball season, and they hit the Big Ten earlier this week. For full preview, see here, but here's a kind of recap of what they said about each team, along with my spin on it a bit. They don't say much here, so I guess I'll have to. And I'm more ...
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Great return to the Dome for Silva tonight: 3.1 IP, 9 H, 9 ER, 0 k, 1 BB I actually feel a little bad for Chief, it isn't his fault the Mariner's front office thought it was a good idea to put a ground ball pitcher in front of one of the worst defenses in the league. Liriano has cruised through 7, giving up only 2 unearned runs, even though he's still struggling with his control. Since ...
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My initial reaction to the Twins claiming Jarrod Washburn off waivers, after WTF?, was that it had to be a defensive move to keep him away from the White Sox, who are desperate for pitching after Contreras’ Achilles heel asploded. But that’s not the case, the Twins were apparently dead serious about getting Washburn and his $13mm salary through next season, offering up Boof Bonser on top ...
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I know, I know, you're sick of hearing about Olympic Baseball, just bear with me for one post and it'll all be over. Actually, I think it's a little weird that there is essentially no coverage for the Olympic baseball tournament. I suppose since it's going on during the MLB season and there are no major league players involved there isn't that much interest, but I heard Terry Tiffee is on the ...
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Seems we are in a hotbed of recruiting
activity this time of year, which is news to
me but whatever. A few quick notes on some goings-on: The dude I'm most excited to see next year, Devoe Joseph, is seemingly having a wee bit o' trouble getting ...
Ok, so I am pressed for time this week and reeling from another winning pick that screwed me. I have a couple things about last weeks PGA Championship. First, Sergio did not choke, Harrington won. Yes Garcia did hit it in the water on 16 but that was arguably his only bad shot of the day, Harrington putted lights out and when that happens there is really nothing the other guys can do but try ...
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And also I think the deputy here is played by Billy Bob.
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I'm sitting here watching the Red Sox/Rangers on ESPN because I refuse to watch Men's Synchronized Diving (not when the Chinese team dominates so handily, I mean really) and Josh Hamilton comes up and of course, the announcers launch in once again to the Legend of Josh Hamilton. Then the whole Home Run Derby thing comes up, and one of the guys says, "Do you think anybody will even remember ...
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That's right, both Paging Jim Shikenjanski and Gopher Nation are closing their doors for good. But fear not, blog fans, they are combining their efforts to form the Gopher Superblog The Daily Gopher. It looks good. It looks fancy. It looks slick. They are writing a lot and are packing each post with tons of quality. It makes me feel really badly about myself. So head on over and take a look ...
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Since I initially started this site with the sole intent of writing about Gopher basketball before tangenting off into several hundred different directions, I figured once in a while I should take a peak at Gopher recruiting. Now seems about right, since there is a lot to discuss. Darius Smith: I wrote earlier this week about the Gophers offering Smith, a 6-2 point guard from Illinois, and ...
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Bert just said, "Zach Greinke has so much potential it's scary." Zach Greinke. Career WHIP = 1.35. Career ERA+ of a just barely average 102. This season? WHIP 1.32. 151 hits allowed in 148 innings. He was a first round pick in 2002 and has the 13th fastest average fastball speed in the majors at 93.1, so maybe that's what Bert was clinging to. His most similar pitchers by age according to ...
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I predict Robert Karlsson, Jeev Singh, and Andres Romero will be near the top of the leaderboard after the first round, while Hunter Mahan, Kenny Perry, and Woody Austin will disappoint. And it's still the Year Of The Sergio.
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Top Story out there is that the Gophers have offered Darius Smith a scholarship. The by far weirdest thing about this is Smith's quote that he is not overly familiar with the program and that he has "Caught a couple games on TV. I know [Tubby Smith] is a great coach and it's a good program." Smith kind of comes out of nowhere as far as the Gophers go - at least to my knowledge - but he ...
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It's true. I just got home for the bar - one of the first times I've been able to go out since Wonderbaby TM arrived. Holla. - and I walk into a completely weird situation with Ozzie Guillen pulling his team off the field because he's deathly afraid of hats. It's like that one dude in the Bond movies - Oddjob - who could throw his hat and kill dudes. I think Ozzie thought he was in the ...
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Well if you didn’t see it Bubba Watson played like a true champion and just fell a couple strokes shy of the win. Well actually he failed to make the weekend but what did you expect, I can’t just give you the winner every time, I have an 1-800 gambling line for that. Furyk, Weir, Kim and Calc were there so I did have some half way decent players in my folks to watch but Watson let me down ...
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Didn't get to type anything during tonight's big win due to that smiling bundle of curveball throwing joy pictured above, but I'm going to say I think I was wrong when I thought Kevin Slowey would suck, but last night was a pretty masterful performance. He didn't exactly seem dominant, but he was brilliant in keeping the Sox from getting the good part of the bat on the ball. Color me ...
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