Tiger who?
Tiger Woods shot a 77 Thursday and is danger of missing the PGA tournament cut. At this point Tiger’s media attention to success ratio is approaching that of the New York Mets.
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During the PGA first round Thursday, Tiger Woods spent so much time in the sand and the water, his next gig could be an audition for one of those Corona beer on the beach commercials.
NFL league officials say they haven’t yet made a decision on whether former Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor will be eligible for the supplemental draft. I’m not sure Pryor gets it, he allegedly offered the officials “some really cool Sugar Bowl memorabilia.”
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The latest potential college football conference consolidation may have Texas A & M moving to the SEC. (Southeastern Conference) Well, I guess College Station is kinda sorta Southeast Texas. Well, east anyway. And south of Dallas.
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from Bill Littlejohn regarding the same Texas A & M/SEC rumor: “Aggie enthusiasts are just waiting for ratification of the new SEC booster-player Collective Bargaining Agreement”
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There’s already controversy over the ESPN-owned “Longhorn Network,” which will premiere August 26 with continuous coverages of University of Texas sports. Well, at least the new channel will be more honestly named than ESPN itself, which this time of year is basically the “Yankees-Red Sox Network.”
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Whatever you think of “entitlements,” this week with the stock markets might be a good time to remember George W. Bush wanted to privatize social security.
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Some compare the stock market to a roller coaster. Although stock markets have brakes.
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You really can’t make this stuff up. Mitt Romney, answering a heckler in Iowa. “Corporations are people, my friend… of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people.” (Well, some of the people anyway.)
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If “corporations are people.” Can I incorporate myself and drive in the carpool lane?
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The PGA tournament first round leader is actually the #2 ranked American golfer in the world. Yeah, I didn’t know his name either.’
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Florida Atlantic (and former Miami) football coach Howard Schnellenberger, 77, has announced he will retire from coaching after this season. Responded Joe Paterno. “So young?”
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In response to a petition urging Bert and Ernie to get married, the Sesame Street producers issued a statement saying “they are just good friends.” Amazed Marcus Bachmann hasn’t issued a followup statement claiming credit
And for anyone who has heard all the “sexist” claims about Michele Bachmann being asked about “submitting to her husband,” there’s a bit of history being left out of some stories.
In 2006, Bachmann said in a speech that her husband Marcus told her “to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.” Which she didn’t particularly want to do, but she was certain God was speaking through her husband.
“Why should I go and do something like that?” she recalled thinking. “But the Lord says, ‘Be submissive wives; you are to be submissive to your husbands.'”
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Wonder if Bachmann will fall back on Newt Gingrich’s line from earlier this year – “Any ad which quotes what I said is a falsehood.”
Tags: Michele Bachmann jokes, Ohio State jokes, Terrelle Pryor, Texas A & M jokes, Tiger Woods jokes
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Left Coast Sports Babe 
August 12, 2011 at 5:19 am
Re: Tiger imploding yesterday, the logo on his hat suits him. TW = Train Wreck
August 12, 2011 at 5:47 am
Reports say that Nike will cut Tiger’s endorsement deal 50% if he doesn’t win this week. (approx $10M loss). You’d think Callaway, Titleist & Taylor Made would throw him a bone for all the business he’s sending their way.
August 12, 2011 at 7:17 am
QUOTE IN YOUR COLUMN FROM 8-12-11: “Whatever you think of “entitlements,” this week with the stock markets might be a good time to remember George W. Bush wanted to privatize social security.”
Uh….if he had, the stock market wouldn’t be in the mess it is now–it would obviously be solid, as would Social Security, which is OUT OF MONEY–spent on other stuff…remember two weeks ago when Obama said the checks might not go out?
August 12, 2011 at 9:46 am
The stock market is in such a mess because it doesn’t have enough money in it?!? Pshaw, pshurely you jest!
p.s. SS is fully funded NOW through at least 2037, even if NOTHING is done to make it better in the coming TWENTY SIX years.
August 12, 2011 at 10:08 am
Obama said SS recipients would be paid as would disabled veterans. As a disabled veteran, I listened closely to what was said. Since much of the stock market’s acitivity is based on speculation (& voodoo, I believe), just how would it ‘obviously be solid’?
Back to the jokes, PLEEEZE!
August 12, 2011 at 7:50 am
“Some compare the stock market to a roller coaster. Although stock markets have brakes.”
More like a roller coaster has brakes. You can always get off the ride when it is over. With stocks, you’re taken for a ride, and you get thrown off when it’s over.