The ongoing steroid witch hunt has taking another step towards proving just about everyone is cheating these days. Tiger Woods wants steroid testing while Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem says its not necessary. I think Woods may be more right… The Carolina Panthers, who reached the Super Bowl in 2004, reportedly had a handful of players jacked up on ‘roids. While it’s no surprise three of them were meathead offensive lineman, the most hilarious thing to come from it is that the team punter - yes, punter - has been identified (and it’s not even the boneheaded Mike Vanderjagt, he’s just a ...

So what’s your ideal post-round hangout? A few beers at Buffalo Wild Wings or a BBQ on your buddy’s patio? Watching SportsCenter or playing some Golden Tee? I still haven’t found an “All-you-can-eat” joint in Europe yet (God bless America and their endless bowls of chips and salsa). But I have found the perfect way to take out all your post-round frustrations. Krakow Valley in Poland has a gun range just steps from the 18th green. Shank your pitch on the 12th? Lip out your par on the 14th? Sick of playing a “mental game” for four hours? That’s nothing ...

Golf is a game that rests heavily on tradition. Imagine looking back 20 years on the game and seeing…nothing. Such is golf in Poland, a country of 38 million but just 2,500 registered golfers. That’s like saying L.A., Chicago, New York and some change have just 2,500 golfers (Bethpage Black probably sees that amount every Saturday). There was only one course prior to World War II in the whole country, then the communists came in (not golf fans apparently) and the game was banned. After the revolution in 1989, golf was once again available, but with no culture and no ...

Here is the one and only reason why the FedEx Cup series and year-end tournament will never be that big of a deal - even if Tiger Woods flies in from one of his private hideaways in the Pacific every once in awhile to compete: It’s called the FedEx Cup. Really, PGA Tour? You needed a sponsor? Gotta squeeze out every couple million you can? Hasn’t Tiger made you all enough money???? Now you’re canceling his “winter happy time” just as soon as he finds a knockout wife to spend it with? He’s gotta be pissed. I know there’s a ...

Congratulations Kimberly Kim, on your fantastic U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship! The bad news…Michelle Wie beat you to a lot of the good sponsors - which you sorta deserve for staying amateur this long - but the good news is that exploiting teenage girls in America never goes out of style, I’m sure we can make some deals. But we’ve gotta cash in fast before some 12-year old with a pet monkey as a caddie wins next year. The lifespan of a golfer is only about 30-60 years. Each month counts. First off, the name. Your parents clearly didn’t have ...

At the beginning of the 2nd half in last night’s New Orleans Saints/Tennessee Titans game, “T-Rac", the Titan’s mascot, ran over Saints QB Adrian McPherson with a golf cart and knocked him out of the game. It was also the first game for Heisman winner Reggie Bush. Can you imagine if T-Rac ran Bush over, knocked out his knee and his NFL career was over before it began? The field at the upcoming PGA may want to inquire of T-Rac’s services if they hope to have a chance at stopping Tiger Woods. With Phil Mickelson missing the cut this week ...

The good news is the terrorist plot to blow up more airplanes was uncovered before execution, the bad news is air travel just got a little stickier. For instance, if you’re one of those “I don’t check my bags” people, you will also be one of those “I don’t brush my teeth or hair” people either – gels, toothpaste, liquids must be checked now. The Detroit Free Press has a good primer of new rules. If you’ve already purchased tickets for travel this month, many airlines are offering refunds or you can postpone your flight to a later date. But if ...

Paul Azinger has won over $14 million on the PGA Tour, not including sponsorships or overseas winnings. So if it takes 20-plus years to make a measly $14 mil, can you blame him for skipping the U.S. Bank Championship for taking a shot at $9 million in one tournament at the recent World Series of Poker in Las Vegas? The PGA Tour can’t really do much more than slap Azinger on the wrist, but there’s a much bigger issue at stake here. Poker doesn’t need more celebrities - or in Azinger’s case, niche celebs - making poker more widespread than ...

The U.S. Women’s Amateur kicks off this week at Pumpkin Ridge in Oregon - a perfect venue for Michelle Wie to end her winless ways and beat some of the finest young women in golf. Sadly she went pro before ever winning it and is now ineligible to ever enter the tournament again. Tiger Woods of course won three consecutive U.S. Amateurs before letting Nike reel him in. As Tiger won his 50th tournament this weekend and Wie wasn’t a factor in the British Open, allow me to insert the obvious “woulda coulda shoulda". The Women’s Am would obviously be ...

I love golf marketing. I mean, how much different are courses to one another, really? Why not just say your new course has “18 flags with cups, some dirt moved around, water, hot dogs at the turn"? To put your new course in the same breath as two of America’s most legendary, exclusive layouts, now that takes some serious marketing balls. That’s just what Forest Dunes, an upscale course in Roscommon, Michigan is doing – comparing their Weiskopf design opened in 1998 to Augusta National and New Jersey’s famous Pine Valley. Having not played either Pine Valley or Augusta ...

Travel and real estate investors just can’t wait until Fidel Castro kicks the bucket. As the 80 year-old Cuban leader enters surgery this week and hands over his power to his brother (not in tip-top shape himself), that day could be coming soon, and there is speculation once he signs off, the United States will lift their embargo they’ve had in place since 1961. While Cuban travel is a no-no for US travelers, their borders have been open to tourists for over a decade, and many other countries, like the U.S.’s grudge-less neighbors to the north, have been puffing authentic ...