“Tiger Woods won his second Players Championship Sunday at the ever-challenging TPC Sawgrass Players Stadium Course. It took him a dozen years to do so, but only four golfers in history won it twice. 2001 was the last time the #1 player won the Players. It was Tiger Woods then. It was Tiger Woods again.”
… read the entire piece at SportsMoney.
“What do top media corporate CEOs and boxer Floyd Mayweather have in common? The short answer is $30 million in compensation a year. Who’s got the better job? Well if you want to have perpetual office hours, and depend on thousands of other people to implement your plans, and also depend on fickle irrational viewers of TV screens for your pay, then the CEO is your choice. But if you would rather have an altercation once a year, get Showtime to air it, and let them pay you the same money, then the boxer is your econo-hero.”
… read the full post from Roger Groves at SportsMoney.
Now that the 2013 NFL draft is over, and all the anticipation and emotionalism has subsided, we can get back to reality. And for this draft, like others, I can say the same thing I used to like to say in court when a witness let his education get in the way of his intelligence, “Your honor, the truth is not that complicated.” The reality is that perennially good teams are good because they pick good people for the particular job. Bad teams are bad because despite being good people, they pick bad people for that job and add bad luck as a companion. Another axiom fits: “Success and failure starts at the top.”
… Roger Groves dissects the more recent drafts of the Jacksonville Jaguars at SportsMoney.
“We already know the tail wags the college football dog. Television rights are the plasma of profitability for big time college football programs. The TV rights equation is really played out in one of three scenarios: (1) TV and a school, (2) TV and a conference and/or (3) TV and the NCAA. There was a time in the 1940’s when a few prominent schools established their own relationships with a major TV network. The NCAA sued, and the schools blinked.”
… read on for the entire piece by Roger Groves.
The latest work from over the weekend about The Masters by Roger Groves.
1. The Michigan Punch from the Bench. Michael “Spike” Albrecht. A barely recruited youngster who averaged less than two points a game put on Superman’s cape and rained 3 pointers from Midtown Atlanta with perfection (4 for 4).
… read on for the rest of Roger’s list at SportsMoney.
“Every season purist lovers of college basketball hope to find a Florida Golf Coast with no money beating a financially-endowed tall cotton program. Eventually, right about final four or no later than the national championship game, reality sets in. The equation we don’t want to admit hits us in the face anew: Big money = Big Program= Final Four= National Champion.”
… read the entire piece at SportsMoney.
“Rutgers men’s basketball coach Mike Rice was fired once his practice videos went public. It showed him playing dodge ball with him distributing all the kill shots, and abusive homophobic anti-gay shots, and pushing and hitting with more adolescent tantrums than the adolescents. And oh by the way, he lost more games than he won this year.
All the discussion has been about four items:”
… follow on for the four items and Roger’s take on the situation.
“Louisville coach Rick Pitino said the bone was punched six inches beyond the skin. The reference was to Kevin Ware. The game was not football as you might expect, but basketball in the first half of Louisville’s game against Duke in their battle to go to the Final Four. His leg is reportedly broken in two places. Pitino shed tears. His teammates on the floor were crying. Yet Ware said “win the game”. They did.”
… read the entire piece at SportsMoney.
Every year we have certainty about three things: death, taxes, and national signing day. On February 6th annually, virtually every high school football player dreaming of playing in college on a scholarship signs a national letter of intent (NLI). His intent is to be one of the greatest in the world at this uniquely North American job, and it starts with his choice of a school to hone his craft. This time something was different. Alex Collins decided he wanted to play atArkansas. His mother decided he should be closer to home in Florida. Collins initially verbally committed to Miami.
… read the latest piece from Roger Groves at SportsMoney.