Chalk up another missed green for John Daly. Only in this case, the green he’ll be missing is the nearly $272,000 in legal fees a judge has ordered him to pay after dismissing Daly’s libel suit against the Florida Times-Union.
For the record, the last time Long John won a check that large on the PGA Tour was in October 2005, when he was runner-up to Tiger Woods in the American Express Championship.
The next time you’re trying to defend your honor, John, I’d suggest pistols at 20 paces - or better yet, utility clubs. It’s a lot cheaper.
Elsewhere in golf, Vijay Singh offered to help post bail for Allen Stanford, the moneyman charged with bilking investors out of $7 billion. I realize Vijay has an endorsement deal with Stanford’s company, but - yikes - could the guy be any more tone deaf?
On second thought, I suppose he could. He could have a logo on his bag advertising Bad Newz Kennels.
A federal magistrate barred Singh from making a contribution to the Free the Financier Fund because Vijay hails from Fiji and isn’t a U.S. citizen.
He might not be a U.S. citizen, but as he’s shown with Stanford, he’s pretty good at taking pledges of allegiance.
Good thing Vijay didn’t have any business connections with Bernie Madoff. He might have had him caddy for him this week.
Not that Tiger playing in the pro-am with Tony Romo, quarterback of Washington’s most hated team, is any stroke of public relations genius.
Number of the Week: 29.
That’s how many trips Dwight Eisenhower made to Augusta National, where he was a member, during his two terms as U.S. president (as reported by the Associated Press).
Robert Redford once said, “Some people have therapy. I have Utah.”
Sounds like Augusta may have served that same function for Ike.
Eisenhower, by the way, will be inducted posthumously into the World Golf Hall of Fame in November.
If you play golf like I do, you wonder why everybody isn’t inducted posthumously into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Ike on the changes in his golf game after leaving the White House: “A lot more people beat me now.”
(A quote swiped from “Golfers on Golf,” edited by Downs MacRury.)
According to the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina, the most dangerous college and high school sport is cheerleading.
Actually, it makes a lot of sense when you stop and think about it. I mean, of all athletes, cheerleaders are by far the most likely to get attacked by mascots.
I’m all for safety, I truly am. I just hope folks don’t overreact. I mean, nobody wants to go back to the old days - when the worst thing that could happen to a cheerleader was getting her lips stuck in a megaphone.
Did you see this story in the small print recently? Eight days after the Red Sox’s Dustin Pedroia hit an RBI double against the Yankees’ Chien-Ming Wang - eight days!- Major League Baseball changed it to an error.
You know what this means, don’t you? It means there’s still a chance the grounder that went through Bill Buckner’s legs in the ’86 World Series will be ruled a hit.
Just asking: Why on earth would it take so long for MLB to render such a decision? And more importantly, doesn’t the league office have better ways to spend its time?
To which a Yankee fan would probably reply: “What could be more important than getting Wang’s ERA under 12?”
In his defense of catcher Geovany Soto, who tested positive for marijuana during the World Baseball Classic, Cubs manager Lou Piniella said, “Look, I have smoked dope one time in my life.”
Having seen Piniella yank first base out of the ground and heave it like he was competing in the hammer throw - then pick it up and heave it again - I think I know when that “one time” was.
Lou claims “I never tried it again” - marijuana, that is, not base-throwing. But I seem to recall another occasion a couple of years ago when he slammed his hat to the ground and kicked it three times - twice with his left foot, once with his right - until it wound up in short left field. It sure looked like he was on something THAT day.
News item: The NHL’s salary cap next season reportedly will be $56.8 million - $100,000 more than last year.
Comment: A hundred thousand dollars? What’s that gonna buy ya, a new set of rims for the Zamboni?
Say this for Sergei Fedorov: The man cares nothing about stats. We know this because he just decided to sign with a team in Russia - and presumably finish his career there - when he needs just 17 goals for 500 in his NHL career.
Perhaps he’s counting the 52 he scored in the playoffs for the Red Wings and Capitals. That would give him 535.
With Fedorov and Viktor Kozlov both headed back home, you’d think the Caps had instituted a De-Russification program.
Speaking of Ted Leonsis’ team, for the third time in four years Friday night it drafted a Swedish center in the first round - Nicklas Backstrom in 2006, Anton Gustafsson in ’08 and now Marcus Johansson.
There’s only one conclusion we can draw from this: Ted REALLY likes to shop at Ikea.
Not long after the Miami Dolphins struck a deal with Jimmy Buffett to rename their stadium after his Land Shark Lager beer, Gloria Estefan became one of the club’s minority owners.
Which raises the question: Are the Dolphins trying to win the Super Bowl or crack the Billboard Top 40?
And finally…
We’ll know for sure if they sign Meatloaf and work him into their defensive line rotation.
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