Randy Ingle, Rome Braves manager, wins argument

This is video of Rome Braves (Atlanta’s single-A affiliate) manager Randy Ingle, um, disagreeing with an umpire.
What’s beautiful about this video is not only Ingle’s antics, which are priceless and call to mind Lou Piniella, but THAT I KNOW RANDY INGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Randy is a wonderful, wonderful man, and I’ve known him for about [...]

Thanks Sammy, for marring my memory

Editor’s Note: I wrote this column three days after the now infamous congressional hearing that included Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Jose Canseco and Rafael Palmiero, hoping against hope that the steroid problem in baseball wasn’t nearly as bad as it was beginning to sound on March 17, 2005. I now know otherwise, and [...]

2009 NBA Draft Diary

Everybody out there OK? It’s been a tough day in pop culture, what with the death of Sky Saxon, 60’s rock artist.
OK, OK, so if you can tear yourself away from listening to “PYT” on repeat or Season 2  of “Charlie’s Angels” as you mourn the losses of Michael Jackson and [...]

The question lingers: Did Mickelson choke?

It feels cold. Cruel even.
 
Something about it just makes you want to shudder. Like the man said, there are a lot more important things in life, and now is the time to focus on them.
 
But it’s a feeling that is hard to shake, and one that just won’t go away. 
And so, even with the circumstances [...]

Who will win the U.S. Open? — trying to pick the winner early

 
Because my column is published on Sundays and since we don’t publish a paper on Mondays, I didn’t have the luxury this time to see how the tournament was shaping up after three rounds. Instead, I only had two (which is just as well, since it’s a crapshoot anyway). So here’s the column:
I don’t know [...]

Kobe puppet celebrates his NBA title

The latest in the Kobe/LeBron puppet/muppet commercials. Poor LeBron muppet.
What’s really kind of cool in these spots is that the puppets both have tattoos and earrings, like Kobe and LeBron do. Remember about a decade ago when the NBA airbrushed the tats off of Allen Iverson’s arms for their promotional magazine? [...]

Where golf is headed — for girls and Rosie Jones

Golf is a girl’s game.
Not a woman’s. Or even a young woman’s.

A girl’s.

And especially not for a woman who’s on the doorstep of 50.

Or is it?

As the scores started the trickle in at the U.S. Women’s Open sectional qualifier at Carolina Trace on Thursday, even one of those plastic knives that could be found around [...]

The PODcast — Southern Lee Saga Edition

It’s the Southern Lee Saga Edition of The PODcast, Sanford’s only sports talk radio show, with special guest and former Cavaliers football coach Bryan Lee. Plus, a little talk about the NBA Finals. Don’t worry, Ryan’s still on there, too.

Thoughts on the moves at Southern Lee

A lot happened at Southern Lee on Tuesday.
A lot.
Before Tuesday, a lot happened on Monday, when several parents of Cavaliers players and at least seven Cavaliers players met to discuss why former Southern Lee wrestling coach and offensive coordinator Mike Short wasn’t granted an interview for the head football coaching position left vacated by the [...]

Southern Lee names Eric Puryear as new coach

SANFORD — Since January, there’s been no shortage of controversy surrounding the Southern Lee Cavaliers’ football program.
 
Now there might be more.
 
In what may be considered another controversial move in a season of them, Eric Puryear was named as the new head football coach at Southern Lee.
 
Puryear, who comes to Sanford after serving as the defensive [...]