Around this time each year, the PGA Tour opens up its doors to any duffer with the price of admission and some good rounds of golf under his belt. Thi...
From the moment Michelle Wie arrived, the golf establishment and the media have harassed, hounded, and undermined her success. Why would golf do this to its most bankable star since Tiger Woods?
In the media/entertainment business these days, so many qualified applicants are chasing so few good jobs it's enough to drive you into selling real estate. Oh, wait, there aren't any jobs there, either.
President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize. Shock and awe or shocking and awful? Also, NASA sends two rockets to explode on moon. Luckily, the moon does not fire back.
Sportsmanship is taking a back seat to health. NBA players and coaches have been asked to greet each other with fist pounds or chest pumps. Handshakes are out. They could spread swine flu.
The FedEx Cup is one of the stupidest ideas ever inflicted on professional sports, an incomprehensible mash of points-earning and points resetting and players weary from an already overlong golf season.
When the world's number one and two, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, are both hoisting trophies at the end of the day, it's a good day.
Under the heading of "why didn't I think of that" there's now a fantasy football league for "off the field" infractions. If your player leads police on a high speed chase, that's worth 175 points.
As I watched Derek Jeter set the Yankees all time hit record Friday night I thought about how remarkable it was how Jeter has lived for 14 years under the biggest media spotlight and has never ever had a blip.
TGIF everyone, here's my Top 5 for August 21, 2009 from www.LenBermanSports.com
Wow. Tiger Woods shoots 75 to lose the PGA. We knew it would happen sooner or later. What caused it?
Companies that are on top today have the odds stacked against them being leaders in the long run. Getting there is easier than staying there.
This one's a layup. Stephon Marbury didn't exactly burnish his NBA resume by smoking a joint on camera and boasting about his marijuana use. I'll go out on a limb and say his career is over.
Y.E. Yang did the unthinkable, he took down the great Tiger Woods to win the PGA Championship. Was it the equivalent of the Jets beating the Colts in Super Bowl III?
Y.E. Yang emotionally put himself in the situation before it happened, so that when it actually happened, it felt perfectly natural.
Let's give credit where credit is due: Y.E. Yang won the Wanamaker Trophy. Period. Many will say Tiger Woods "lost" the tournament. No. Yang hit the ...
Having just accepted the best golf player in the world is an African American, now the winner of one of the four "Majors" tournaments is Korean, which will drive the Lou Dobbs division of the wing nut association crazy.
No champion reaches the top, even with a natural gift, without coaching and mentoring.
Perhaps Tiger's greatest unforeseen advantage may not be a matter of his having a competitive edge, but rather how everyone else seems to lose theirs.
Have you seen a 7-foot tall bronze statue of former basketball wacko Dennis Rodman?
Sometimes entrepreneurs are so focused on a higher goal that they forget about the people who help get them there.
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