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Rick Reilly, You Do NOT Get to Ruin Golf for America
It's bad enough that Rick Reilly weasels his way onto the ABC telecasts of the Open Championship, like he's trying to be some Jack Whittaker or Jim McKay. (Both of which, he is not.) ...
Rest In Peace @JasonSobel Twitter Account?
The Worldwide Leader in Sports has laid down the hammer on its employees that have Twitter accounts. Basically, ESPN has ruined guys on Twitter like Chris Mortensen, Ric Bucher, and their golf e...
ABC's Open Championship Crew Filled With Useless Lies
Watching all of ABC's third round coverage of the Open Championship from Turnberry was painful. I did it because it's my job - a sacrifice for you - but the crew was just awful today. They...
Tom Watson Could Always Do Play-By-Play On Course
Remember in each of the last few years that Tom Watson has done some color commentary on ESPN/ABC's weekend telecasts of the Open Championship? Well, as Devil Ball Golf explains, he was fully pr...
Mixed Messages from the US Women's Open
Our US Women's Open correspondent, Nisha Sadekar, files her final report on the tournament and Ji' s win. BETHLEHEM, PA - The US Women’s Open has come to a close and Eun Hee Ji is the 2009 Champ...
Twitter: Where LPGA Players Can Vent About Bad Tournament Decisions
The Wegmans LPGA outside of Rochester was won by Jiyai Shin, catapulting her to the top of the LPGA Tour's money list. It was her second win this season and gives her a further strange hold over...
Rick Reilly Wonders if Tiger Woods is Done
Over at Deadspin, they have a great time remarking on how ESPN got a busted deal when they swapped Dan Patrick for Rick Reilly and a multimillion dollar contract to be with the Worldwide Leader (WWL)....
Golf Channel Lost Viewers in 2008
I was taking a look at Sports by Brooks (for the articles, I swear) via Deadspin and saw a piece from the Sports Business Daily about how Versus - owned by Comast - grew its audience by 23.6% in 2008....
Golf on TV: Is It Time to Take it All to Cable?
With the new deals that ESPN has or soon will sign to move the Open Championship and all five Bowl Championship Series games to cable, it is becoming apparent that the future of sports on TV may very ...
R&A and ESPN Agree to 8 Year Deal
As we reported yesterday, ESPN winning the R&A contract was in the bag after Turner walked away from the table. The winner was announced officially today by the R&A. The R&A and E...
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