The 92nd PGA

WOW! What a tournament. I was not a fan of this course to begin with and this tops it off. There was a moment during the week where I thought to myself "This is boring". It was not till Sunday afternoon at about 4:30 eastern time did I focus in. We had a five way race with D. Johnson, Z.Johnson, R.McIlroy, BuBBA and M.Kaymer. Sure others made a push. When Dustin Johnson came to the 18th green, I had this feeling. The feeling was he was going to hit a bad drive. Sure enough he went 20 rows deep into the crowd. He found his ball in a "bunker", or was it? Dustin Johnson did not think it was a bunker nor did his caddy. But the rules sheet did say --"All areas of the course that were designed and built as sand bunkers will be played as bunkers (hazards), whether or not they have been raked. This will mean that many bunkers positioned outside of the ropes, as well some areas of bunkers inside the ropes, close to the rope line, will likely include numerous footprints, heel prints and tire tracks during the play of the Championship. Such irregularities of surface are a part of the game and no free relief will be available from these conditions."--

This is a dumb rule! What courses allow fans to walk through bunkers? Oh I guess this one does. It is like the folks from Whistling Straits wanted to prove a point. Wanted to be like we have 1200 bunkers and we are the best! This bunker should have been a waste bunker. Yes, after watching the replay, you can see the lip of the bunker. But I see grass and such, it looked like a "manger" said CBS golf analysis David Feherty. What a classic quote. But overall this rule was dumb and should have been in effect! It will be interesting to see what happen in 2015.

Brett Favre

What a game last night! Yeah Favre tossed a INT when he was driving down the field. Yeah you don't throw across your body .. EVER. But what a season Brett Favre had. He tossed for 4,202 yards with 33 TD and 7 INTS. He turned Rice into a star and made the Vikings better. At the begging of the season all talks were AP was going to have to carry this team. Turned out Brett had to carry the team. He won a lot of games this season was the reason why the Viking were only seconds away from a Super Bowl.

Brett took so many hits last night and kept getting back up ! What a STUD. He showed how everyone should play the game. When Brett Favre is back there anything is possible. Will he come back next year? Who knows. When will we know? Not sure. I would love to see him come back for another season.

Missing The Old ABC Sports Theme

Yes, I still like watching the new ABC on ESPN. But who misses the old ABC theme song with Brent Musberger doing his thing? I sure do! Like this...

But you have to like the " You Are Looking Live"

Bone Head Of The Week...

Well this is my first Bone Head Of The Week... It belongs to all the student athletes who fail to get the job done off the field and in the classroom..

My Bowl Pick...

Yeah... I am three games late. I am 1-2 with my only win coming in the Rutgers game.
- Fresno L
- S-Miss L
- Rutgers W
- Oregon State L
- Utah W
- Nevada L
- Ohio L
- Pitt W
- USC W
- Clemson W
- Texas Am L
- UCLA W
- Wisconsin W
- Bowling Green L
- Nebraska W
- Houston L
- Stanford W
- Mizzu L
- Minn L
- Va Tech W
- Auburn W
- West Virgina L
- Penn State W
- Ohio State W
- Florida W
- South Florida W
- Uconn W
- Ok State
- Ark W
- Texas Tech W
- TCU L
- Ga Tech L
- C Mich W
- Bama W

STUDENT Athletes..

As the college football season comes to an end we hear about the student athlete's eligibility. It is the same every year; we hear about how some students have not made the grades to play in their bowl game. Most recently USC has said they have three players ineligibly. I do not understand why year in and year out we hear about issues like this. They have all the help they need. There is no reason these athletes should be failing class. The help and tutors are all there and are just a flash of an eye away.

Also we always hear about players who accept gifts from boosters. It has happen again and it involves a USC running back. He has been seen riding in a very expensive SUV. According to the running back the car belongs to his girl friend which was given to her by a business man in L.A.

Along with that there are two Ohio State players who have been in and out of Jim Tressel's dog house. They have been doing so well this season and they have now the two are back in the dog house. I do not understand how athletes who have all the resources and everything going for them find a way to screw it up. There will always be a select few who think they are above all. And they will continue to get caught and get in trouble.

As The Semester Ends..

I have really enjoyed taking this class. To be honest I did not know what to expect in this class. I thought a lot of it would be about Title Nine and such. But it was not like that at all. I learned so much about masculinity and intersex. I really enjoyed the class discussions. It was great to write a blog and very fun. Fun to talk about topics we talked about in class and then comment on our classmate’s blogs. A lot of the things I wrote about I have experienced the issues or had some background and opinion on the topic before hand. Reading and writing about disabilities in sport was one of my favorite topics. I love seeing the stories on the news about kids or adults who have worked so hard at something and see it pay off. The story on J-Mac and his great basketball adventure was an amazing story. I still get goose bumps watch the clip. Learning about how people took Magic Johnson’s announcement about AIDs , I would have never thought people would act that way. It makes us think what would people say about Kobe or LeBron having AIDs?

I also enjoyed reading about the NCAA and how women are not marketed as well. Which is something that needs to change because the women’s college game can be really fun to watch at time? Bowling Green has a great women’s program and they are fun to watch. They get more fans at their games then the men. I also enjoyed reading about the Korean Golfer’s in the LPGA. I have experienced what was said first hand. I believe I have become a better writer with better knowledge in sport and gender. It sure was not what I expected.

I will continue to blog on a weekly if not daily basis. I have also wanted to blog and this class gave me the opportunity. If it was not for this class I would probably still not have made a blog yet. I will remember all the topics we talked about in class from start to finish. I found out this class was more than just talking about Title Nine.