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Uncompromising Suckers of Goat Ass
Uncompromising Suckers of Goat Ass
Dear USGA, What the fuck ? From Friday through Sunday fans on the east coast were able to watch Tiger play the Open in primetime, and now you’re just fucking us in the ass. Some people can’t stand the idea of an anti-climactic 18-hole playoff to settle the tournament, but fuck, I’m not one to complain about such things. One thing I am wont to complain about is an ...
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Foul Balls — A quick look around the interweb while enjoying all the times Tiger cusses on national television Believe it or not, there's a huge flaw in Tiger's game. [ Simon on Sports ] Not everybody is happy about today's U.S. Open playoff. [ Kissing Suzy Kolber ] So where is C.C. Sabathia going to end up? [ Rumors and Rants ] Doug Christie is paranoid. [ FanHouse ] Everybody loot Bristol on September 8th. [ Awful Announcing ]

Awesomeness of the day: USOpen.com
The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL. — Live streaming video of the open playoff, no commercials … awesome. this has been embraced by myself, tons of friends, and even several of my co-workers, and if you knew how unusual it is to openly talk about streaming internet sports in our office, you’d know. The internet blows me away sometimes. Cheer up, Maj. It’s right there for you.

‘Tiger Effect’ Slows Down Trading On Wall Street
SPORTSbyBROOKS — ... New York Stock Exchange Volume, between 12-4 pm. (last 30 days): 781.5 million shares traded. New York Stock Exchange Volume between 12-4 pm (yesterday): 709.9 million shares traded. That’s a drop in trading on the NYSE of 9.2 percent. In fact, it was the lowest trading day since the Friday and Tuesday that sandwiches Memorial Day weekend. Tiger makes golf awesome, despite the fact that Rocco Mediate managed to take the phenom to not one, but two playoffs yesterday. For all the complaining some people did about the USGA’s unique 18-hole “overtime” format, the golf was as ...

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This is the greatest playoff in modern golf history…The Grand National Championships
And in this era of 24-7 Hyperbole I will not argue about this. The USGA is going to change it to like a 4 Hole aggregate, so yeah. Mediate will forever be in the greatest playoff ever. Oh, and I’m back.
Yo, USGA: This should be the last 18-hole playoff ever!Sports stories from Newsday
As every sane sports fan well knows . . . The USGA's insistence on playing a full playoff round on Monday for the U.S. Open was, is and always will be an awful idea, a profound anti-climax that is unnecessary - especially for a West Coast Open that left ample time for playoff holes after the 6 p.m. PDT finale Sunday. Sigh. The good news is that unlike every other Monday playoff in Open ...