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Top 20 Golfers for 2012 Majors: No. 18 Keegan Bradley
Golf They’re the cream of the major championship crop, circa 2012 — the Athlon Major Championship Dream Team. Throughout the month of March, we'll be unveiling Athlon Sports’ 20 players to watch f...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Top 20 Golfers for 2012 Majors: No. 19 Trevor Immelman
Golf They’re the cream of the major championship crop, circa 2012 — the Athlon Major Championship Dream Team. Throughout the month of March, we'll be unveiling Athlon Sports’ 20 players to watch f...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

The Rory, Phil and Tiger Show
Golf They say that golf season doesn't really start until the Masters. This year, they're wrong, whoever they are.  A stunning flurry of early-season PGA Tour action reached a crescendo at the Honda ...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Top 20 Golfers for 2012 Majors: No. 20 Jim Furyk
Golf They’re the cream of the major championship crop, circa 2012 — the Athlon Dream Team, if you will. If you're drafting a majors fantasy squad, these 20 players should be sitting atop your board....
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Tiger Woods Not Amused by Hank Haney Tell-All
Golf There's clearly some ill will between Tiger Woods and star instructor Hank Haney over Haney's book about his former pupil. Titled The Big Miss, the book chronicles Haney's teaching relationship wit...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Tiger Woods Advances - Barely
Golf The Accenture Match Play, golf's version of March Madness, has had an eventful first day, with the usual assortment of upsets — if you can count it as an upset when a great golfer beats another g...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Reality Check for Phil Mickelson
Golf In this knee-jerk era of sports analysis, when we attach eternal significance to what a guy did yesterday, many observers are anointing Phil Mickelson the 2012 PGA Tour Player of the Year and odds-...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Chiefs Deny Green Bay Packers a Shot at Perfection
NFL Somewhere, the most annoying former champs in sports, the 1972 Dolphins, are planning their annual toast to their own perfection, their status as the NFL's lone unbeaten champions secure for anothe...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL, Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers, Kansas City Chiefs, Kyle Orton, Romeo Crennel, undefeated season

Eli Manning Leads Giants Over Cowboys
NFL This morning, it's the story in the NFL: A quarterback who's building an unlikely legend around clutch fourth-quarter performances, a guy who saves his best for when the pressure's at its greatest,...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Eli Manning, Marion Barber, New York Giants, Tennessee Titans, Tim Tebow, Tony Romo

Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers Move to 12-0
NFL Three years ago, the Giants tested the undefeated Patriots and the unstoppable Tom Brady before falling 38–35, then went on to upset the P-men in the Super Bowl. Yesterday, the Giants tested the ...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL, Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers

Tim Tebow Wins Again; 5-1 as Starter
NFL In the five games the Broncos have won since Tim Tebow took over as the starting quarterback, the passing-impaired Tebow has staged his own personal version of NFL Mythbusters. Myth No. 1: A pu...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL, Brian Dawkins, Denver Broncos, John Elway, San Diego Chargers, Tim Tebow

Did Vince Young Just Save Philly's Season?
NFL You can't spell victory without VY. Of course, you can't spell hypersensitive, either, but that's another story.  Vince Young joined Tim Tebow in spicing up Week 11 of the NFL season with lat...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL, Michael Vick, Philadelphia Eagles, Vince Young

Tim Tebow: Two Completions, One Win
NFL If you can't pass, you can't win. Right? Tell it to the Denver Broncos, whose ground-bound attack flies in the face of the prevailing notion that aerial bombardment is the only way to go in today's...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL, AFC West, Denver Broncos, John Fox, Tim Tebow

Steve Williams Is a Jerk, Not a Racist
Golf I'm normally the last guy to leap to Steve Williams' defense. In fact, I ripped him when he was on the bag for Adam Scott's win at the WGC Bridgestone and took the occasion to make it all about him...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Ravens-Steelers Outshines Bama-LSU In A Big Football Weekend
NFL Score one for the NFL, where the marquee matchup vastly outshone its college counterpart this weekend. Pittsburgh-Baltimore was everything that Alabama-LSU could have been: A bruising matchup of de...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL, Alabama Crimson Tide, LSU Tigers, Baltimore Ravens, LSU at Alabama, Pittsburgh Steelers

Tim Tebow and John Elway: A Comparison Through Their First Five Games
NFL Here's a little perspective for all the Tim Tebow haters out there, John Elway included: In Elway's fifth career start, he was 4-of-10 passing for 36 yards and no touchdowns, and he threw a pick-si...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL, Denver Broncos, John Elway, Tim Tebow

Buck, McCarver Rise to the Occasion
MLB Part of great announcing is knowing when to shut up and let the images do the talking. Popular whipping boys Joe Buck and Tim McCarver proved that in Game 6 of the World Series. Buck gets pounded f...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: MLB

Marty Schottenheimer, Champion
NFL It's not what he envisioned, back when John Elway was snatching AFC Championships away from him. But Marty Schottenheimer is finally a champion. In front of 14,172 fans at something called the Spor...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL

Peyton Manning-less Colts Feeling (Andrew) Lucky
NFL The Indianapolis Colts are taking this "Suck for Luck" thing to Mt. Everest-style heights. Indy put on perhaps the worst performance by an NFL team since the expansion-era Bucs, showing that they'r...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL, Drew Brees, Indianapolis Colts, New Orleans Saints, Peyton Manning, Tim Tebow

Jim Schwartz vs. Jim Harbaugh: Round 1
NFL For a few emotionally charged minutes, Sunday afternoon at Ford Field turned into Monday Night Raw, minus the folding chairs. After the Niners' tense 25–19 win over the formerly unbeaten Lions, S...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL

Golf Tip: Putting String
Golf   This is one of our favorites. You can work on improving straight putts and breaking putts. This aid helps your path, face control and a pattern of success for confidence.  Affix a lengt...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Alexis Thompson Makes Golf History
Golf The LPGA has received a priceless gift in the form of a giggly 16-year-old home schooler. A Tour that is starved for fan attention, marketing dollars and a charismatic American presence has had the...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf, Alexis Thompson, Lexi Thompson

Red Zone Tip: Putting String
Golf This is one of our favorites. You can work on improving straight putts and breaking putts. This aid helps your arc path, face control and a pattern of success for confidence. Simply affix a len...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Golf Tip: The Anatomic Drill
Golf ...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Captain Couples Tabs Tiger Woods for Presidents Cup team
Golf Fred Couples is obviously not a "What have you done for me lately" kind of guy. He proved it by tabbing the 132nd-ranked player in FedExCup points to be a part of his Presidents Cup team. Yep, ...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

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