Fear The Usual February 26, 2009

Outshooting the Duke Blue Devils in the biggest game of the season at home, the Maryland Terps crawled back into its shell.
 
Maryland finished the game shooting 48% from the field while Duke checks in at about 44%. If they give out NCAA tournament bids for moral victories, Maryland may move back on the bubble.
 
Sitting [...]

March Madness February 20, 2009

If you watch college basketball long enough, like most sports, you’ll see a variety of coaches as wide as the Bering Strait.
Some coaches like to shoot first and play defense later.
Some coaches favor a zone and balk at a defense that has man-to-man principles.
Some coaches like to schedule difficult games to provide a [...]

A Quart Low February 16, 2009

On Monday, Dustin Johnson won the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am without showing up to the first tee box. The PGA TOUR called off the event after 54 holes.
 
Thanks to winds whipping at over 40 miles per hour and a steady rain that put most of Pebble under water, Johnson gets his second TOUR victory at [...]

Fantasy Baseball February 8, 2009

Growing up as a golf fan, Jack Nicklaus was my hero.
 
My father often tells me the story of the 1986 Masters golf tournament. As the story goes, I was sitting with my father as the 40-something Nicklaus battled back to win one of the more incredible major championships in golf history.
 
I don’t remember [...]