Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I usually reserve this kind of title for established golf journalists who write a boneheaded column, but Shane Bacon really brought teh stupid yesterday over at Golf Fanhouse, so he can join Ron Sirak , Steve Elling , Gary Van Sickle , and Jason Sobel in the Mostly Harmless hall of shame. Psssst, Shane, the LPGA Season Isn't Over! When your 1st 3 words--"It's golf's offseason"--are...
The FanHouse - NFL (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: NFL Fans Each week in the NFL , there are players that impress and players that distress. One week a certain quarterback might toss four touchdowns and run around pointing skyward, while the next he's laying on his back, holding his facemask as the other team returns one of his three interceptions for the game-winning score. With that in mind, here's Studs...
The FanHouse - NCAAbasketball (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: Pac-10 For most of this decade, the Pac-10 was UCLA and the rest. The Bruins have been the Pac-10's representation in the Final Four three of the four times the league has placed a team on the final weekend since 2000, failing to claim the championship each time, but pulling themselves ahead of the West Coast pack as the elite program. That all changed last...
The FanHouse - Arizona Cardinals (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: European Tour Tiger Woods plays golf all over the world, all the time, and tends not to discriminate when trophies come his way in different languages. Unfortunately, none of those trophies Woods holds are covered in Mandarin, but that could change if Tiger keeps it up at the HSBC Champions. After two rounds in Shanghai, China, Tiger can't stop shooting 67s,...
The FanHouse - NFL (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: NFL Fans Each week in the NFL , there are players that impress and players that distress. One week a certain quarterback might toss four touchdowns and run around pointing skyward, while the next he's laying on his back, holding his facemask as the other team returns one of his three interceptions for the game-winning score. With that in mind, here's Studs...
The FanHouse - Villanova Basketball (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: LPGA It's golf's offseason, which doesn't really mean much for fans and players alike except there aren't any majors, and the competition dwindles. It also gives media and players a chance to reflect on the bigger picture. Players evaluate their years and see what could be improved, promising to work on that before next year rolls out. Media has the opportunity...
The FanHouse - New Orleans Saints (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: PGA Doug Barron has been suspended for a full year after failing a drug test, becoming the first PGA Tour player to fail such a test since the tour instituted their drug policy in July, 2008. Barron may not fit the mold of the normal athlete to fail drug testing, but in golf, he seems like the perfect culprit. The 40-year-old Barron has been a professional...
The FanHouse - NFL (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: Cowboys It's that time of year again. Nope, not the changing of the leaves or the holiday season, it's that time of year when a Cowboys wide receiver isn't happy with quarterback Tony Romo , and allows himself the privilege of complaining to the media about it instead of, you know, talking to TONY ROMO! Roy Williams , who was supposed to replace previously...
The FanHouse - UCLA Basketball (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: European Tour If you can look past, for a moment, the fact that both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are multi-millionaires, playing the same game and hording appearance fees most of us won't accumulate in our lifetime, the two are practically polar opposites. Tiger was a Stanford Cardinal to Phil's Arizona State Sun Devil. Tiger's right-handed to Phil's southpaw....
The FanHouse - NC State Basketball (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: European Tour So much for Robert Allenby taking advantage of a rested Anthony Kim . Playing for the first time since the Presidents Cup -- where Allenby bashed Kim for partying too much and being a loose cannon and compared him to John Daly , even though the American smoked the Australian in the singles matches -- Kim again took Allenby down in Spain. This...
The FanHouse - Philadelphia Eagles (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: PGA In a rematch that is sure to disappoint bar owners in Caseras, Spain, Anthony Kim and Robert Allenby are set to square off in the World Match Play Semifinals on Saturday, giving us a much-needed golf treat during the offseason. As you probably remember, Kim and Allenby played against each other at the Presidents Cup earlier this month during the Sunday...
BlackNotes (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Vijay Singh Pond Skipping a Hole in One. Unbelievable! Update via WaggleRoom : In yesterday’s [Apr 7, 2009] practice round, Vijay Singh came to the tee at the famous par 3 16th. It has had its fair share of famous holes in one in its time, but this one may take the cake. As Don Chavez found , and then Shane Bacon also posted , I’m going to also post video of Singh’s...
The FanHouse - NFL (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: NFL Fans Each week in the NFL , there are players that impress and players that distress. One week a certain quarterback might toss four touchdowns and run around pointing skyward, while the next he's laying on his back, holding his facemask as the other team returns one of his three interceptions for the game-winning score. With that in mind, here's Studs...
The FanHouse - Chicago Bulls (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: PGA On a week when the hole seemed to be the size of a bucket for most of the golfers at the Frys.com Open, it was only fitting that Troy Matteson end the playoff with a tap-in birdie. Matteson, who, at 29 was the ancient man in the three man playoff, beat Rickie Fowler and Jamie Lovemark to win his second career PGA Tour tournament at Greyhawk Golf Course,...
NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
by Shane Bacon Filed under: Arizona , Pac 10 On Sunday morning, after waking up and throwing back a glass of H2O, I did what I always do ... opened the laptop and checked the college football rankings. It's a habit of mine, for no particular reason at all. I'm not a huge fan of a big powerhouse, sans my affiliation to my home state Texas teams. This Sunday was different. I was pulling...
