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Friday, August 24, 2007 2:18 PM |
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The Brickyard Recap: Terrible. Embarrassing. Sad…Predictable. |
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By Steve Eubanks on
Monday, July 28, 2008 1:33 PM
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Before it was introduced the current racecar in NASCAR’s premier Sprint Cup series was called the “Car of Tomorrow.” Then NASCAR made a lame attempt to label it the Car of Today. Finally they settled on the COT. This past weekend in Indianapolis the car Showed How Irritatingly Terrible (insert acronym here) it really is.
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Tribute to One of the Last of the Good Guys |
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By Steve Eubanks on
Friday, July 11, 2008 11:57 AM
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Sports lost one of the last of the good guys on Thursday when former Duke All-American golfer and PGA Tour star Mike Souchak died at his home on Belleair, Fla. The Duke Hall of Famer was 81 years old.
Souchak wasn’t someone the casual fan knew, primarily because he played the tour from 1955 to 1966 when three guys named Palmer, Player and Nicklaus sucked all the air out of the game. But the big North Carolinian won 15 times on tour, and was the first real power-player in the game. Golf always had long hitters going back to Old Tom Morris who could crank a feathery farther than anybody, but Souchak, who started his career as an assistant pro at Winged Foot, was one of the first to successfully hit the ball high and hard with straight as a secondary concern, a model that would be followed successfully by guys named Nicklaus, Norman, and now ...
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The Best Final, Evahhhh! |
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By Steve Eubanks on
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 9:23 AM
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All eyes in the packed house, including the servers, remained glued to the big screen where, like a hypnotist twirling a watch, two guys in white shorts prancing about on a manicured lawn held an eclectic audience spellbound for an entire afternoon.
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What Else Could Go Wrong? |
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By Steve Eubanks on
Monday, June 30, 2008 2:39 PM
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A car that looks like a lot more like something out of a European rally race than anything Detroit ever made; a point’s leader that is arguably one of the most arrogant asses in sports driving a Japanese car; and races that rank a half-step above curling on the boredom meter: what else could go wrong with NASCAR this year?
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Big Brown: The Marion Jones of Horse Racing |
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By Steve Eubanks on
Monday, June 09, 2008 1:44 PM
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Big Brown’s trainer, Rick Dutrow, nonchalantly informed reporters that, yeah, he injected his horses with the anabolic steroid Winstrol on the 15th of every month, but that Big Brown hadn’t been juiced since late April, the reaction was, ‘Whoa, wait a minute, you do what?”
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Nicklaus Sits for Sculpture |
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By Steve Eubanks on
Monday, June 02, 2008 10:21 AM
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“The people at Valhalla approached me about doing (a bronze sculpture) of Jack Nicklaus holding a set of plans and looking out over the property,” Frudakis said. “It will be unveiled the week of the Ryder Cup, which is a very short time-frame, so I have a lot of work to do.”
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The Greatest Act of Sportsmanship |
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By Steve Eubanks on
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:03 AM
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On the final green of the final day, Nicklaus conceded Jacklin’s two-foot putt which led to the first-ever tie in the Ryder Cup. And the two have been milking that act ever since. But, to find the greatest act of sportsmanship in golf, you have to go back to 1926 and look at one of the greatest amateur players not named Bobby Jones who ever lived.
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A Refreshing Updraft |
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By Steve Eubanks on
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:00 PM
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The reason for the kilt, and the bagpipes, and the haggis, a tasty mixture of sheep guts and onions stuffed in the animal’s stomach and boiled for several hours, was a bi-annual tournament called the Ailsa Cup. Held at Turnberry on the west coast of Scotland, the event pitted golf writers from the U.S. against a team of fellow scribes from the EU.
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