theonion.com - 6/23/2008
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June 19, 2008 | | Onion Sports SAN DIEGO—A man who used several different bent sticks to hit a ball to an area comprised of very short grass surrounding a hole in the ground was praised for his courage Monday after he used a somewhat smaller stick to gently roll the ball into the aforementioned hole in fewer attempts than his competitors. "What guts, what confidence," ESPN commentator Scott ...
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PM Roundup: Benson Has his Own Breathalyzer, and T-Mac’s Child Support
The Big Lead —
... Cedric Benson’s car to have a breathalyzer installed. There’s a joke to be made here about how Devin Hester’s sittin’ on 20s, right? (Statesman)
T-Mac ordered to pay $54,000 a year in child support, much less than the 200k his baby mama had asked for. Unrelated: My brother saw T-Mac in Nevis last week, and apparently, McGrady has a sick boat, and was friendly to everyone. (Herald Tribune)
LeBatard will love this clowning of golf. (Onion)
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High Octane Action Thrillers
Joe Posnanski —
... sports circumstances. One of the problems of our language, I think, is that we don’t have a good word for “lesser sports courage.” The word “courage” is a big word, it represents the sort of significant and decisive bravery you might see on a battlefield or in a Little Rock school during integration or in a raging forest fire or someplace like that. Courage speaks to life and death, good and evil, mobs and heroes, and any lesser use of the word seems silly and asinine. ...
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