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Things Less Awkward Than The FedExCup Trophy Presentation
After Phil Mickelson had won the Tour Championship and quipped to Mark Rolfing that he deserved the $10 million, the NBC Sports crew cut over to Dan Hicks, Tim Finche, and Tiger Woods f...
Johnny Miller's An Egotistical Blabbermouth, Volume 149
Shane Bacon via Geoff Shackelford via Forbes found this story on Johnny Miller - America's favorite bloviating golf color commentator. He thinks he is tougher than nails, which are tough. From S...
I Want John McEnroe Calling Golf Tournaments
We golf fans lament a lot about the lack of bench depth for the commentators calling our golf tournaments these days. NBC did a very nice job this weekend with the coverage of the Deutsche Bank ...
What I Think Golf on TV is Missing
Today is a slow news day, so I was trying to poke around the Series of Tubes to see if anything struck my creative nerves. Rudy Giuliani's son? Nah. He's an idiot. Byron Nelson...
The Players Championship Ratings Best in Five Years
PGA Tour (Not So) Confidential at golf.com had this line on page one of the chat session. Friedman: Will more events like this turn off the casual fan who doesn't want to see guys like Stenson and ...
Golf Ratings Watch: LPGA Flat, PGA Tour Improves
Sports Media Watch has the ratings from golf last weekend, and the results are pretty encouraging. The LPGA Tour's Kraft Nabisco Championship did a 0.8 on CBS Sports on Sunday. That was flat fr...
Johnny Miller Clearly Hates Tiger Woods
Johnny Miller is a divisive TV commentator. His speaks his mind and people either love that or hate it. At times, I love it - like when he called out rampant slow play at last year's Arnol...
What Would Improve the Match Play for TV?
Earlier today, we discussed that American golf fans and media seemingly don't get match play. Either that, or many of them suffer from a catch of match play ADD. Tiger Woods is their lone ...
NBC Will Spend Time on Tiger This Weekend, But He's Not Playing
When Tiger Woods announced that he would return this week at the Accenture Match Play, the networks broadcasting the event - Golf Channel and NBC - went on a marketing barrage with the message that Ti...
LPGA Tour & Pro Wrestling: A Comparative Essay
Professional wrestling is (a) staged and (b) often taped well in advance. If you do watch wrestling and miss the most recent episode, you can find the results online in advance if it has been ta...
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