Graham DeLaet is on his way to the PGA Tour, but the coverage of the Canadian’s ascension is spotty at best. My morning Globe, for example, had no reference to DeLaet at all — aside from a bolded name in the stats page.
Ian Hutchison spoke with DeLaet and filed this story for the Toronto Sun, [...]
So the “brand lady,” as fellow blogger Geoff Shackelford coined her, is done. That’s right — LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens is toast after failing to stop a revolt by some of her key stars. My only encounter with Bivens happened a few years back — when she made an exceptionally odd remark about Lorne Rubenstein. [...]
My latest MSN/Sympatico column is now live — stemming from a tip I received that CN wasn’t altogether thrilled about the way it has been treated by the LPGA, which has a half dozen tournaments without sponsors. Can’t imagine they can afford to lose CN, but we’ll see…
Could the CN Canadian Women’s Open announced yesterday [...]
I’ve spent the day thinking about this issue with the LPGA demanding its players speak proficient English by 2009, or 2011 if they are rookies next year.
It is a fascinating matter. The lines were ablaze on sports radio this afternoon as I drove to a television station to be a talking head on the matter. [...]
I’m on that fine invention the television tonight on Live at 5:30, speaking on CHCH TV with Mark Hebscher and debating with CFRB pundit Bill Carroll about the LPGA’s decision to force its players to learn English. Taped this afternoon, I think it produced some spirited debate.
I’ll see if I can find a link to [...]
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