Barking Carnival

Overview
After Les Miles’ departure, Oklahoma State’s strategy seems to have been hiring a young, hip alum that combs his hair with a cup of hot fat and a firecracker. Then, spend a couple of hundred million to enter the facilities arms race in efforts to recruit better talent and have T. Boone foot the bill.  […]

Tuesday, Tiger Woods accepted a check for $1,350,000 for winning the the 108th U.S. Open. That single check would have allowed him to edge out Fred Couples — at $1,344,000 — as the top earner on the PGA Tour for the entire 1992 season.

With his U.S. Open win, Tiger Woods has now won over $82,000,000 […]

 
To Be Continued:

Magic in sports is SandyKoufax throwing his fourth no-hitter, a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs with a terribly arthritic elbow in 1966.
 
Magic in sports is an aging Muhammed Ali letting George Foreman pound his mid-section while leaning on the ropes for 8 rounds and then knocking the defending champ out in the 9th.
 
Magic in […]

Tiger Woods made the turn on Friday after firing a 2-over 38, to put him 3-over for the U.S. Open. He promptly put his drive on #1 (his 10th hole of the day) next to a tree just off the cart path. Another yard of roll, and Woods would have been blocked by the tree. Instead […]

The 108th U.S. Open held with tradition Thursday. Specifically the tradition of the first day leaderboard being populated by players who must wear their U.S. Open Player badges prominently in order to get inside the ropes.
Kevin Streelman and Justin Hicks fashioned 3-under 68’s to take a one shot lead after the first round of the […]

OTHER COVERAGE:

U.S. Open Day One: Supporting Cast Takes Center Stage
U.S. Open Day Two: Tiger Strikes on Elimination Day
U.S. Open Prime Time: Tiger Woods Stars in Survivor-Torrey Pines
Magic in Sports
Sunday at the U.S. Open
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Tiger, Phil & Torrey Pines = Prime Time Golf
The 108th U.S. Open begins Thursday, and it will be marked by a […]

CBS had an afternoon of golf scheduled for Sunday, but instead, it aired the latest version of Survivor.

Everyone but Trevor Immelman is voted off the island on Sunday.
Trevor Immelman battled the wind and his nerves to hang on to capture the Masters Sunday. Immelman, like every other golfer on the leaderboard, struggled on the […]

Augusta National saw perfect scoring conditions Saturday (rain-softened greens, no wind), allowing some to move up the scoreboard, while others moved down.
But the most impressive part of Moving Day involved two players, Trevor Immelman and Brandt Snedeker, who stayed right where they started the day, at the top of the leaderboard.
Immelman and Snedeker survived […]

Tiger Woods finds himself 7 shots back of the leader, Trevor Immelman, with a total of 12 players in front of him.  Woods got to one under par with a birdie at 17 Friday, and then preserved that red number by making a part on 18 with a 3rd shots from the 10th fairway that […]