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Blog: June 2005 Archives
Media: Shameless Back-Patting
For all the “you suck” emails I get, is it wrong to print one kissing my butt? Czabe: You my man are the Pro V of sports talk in a world of Pinnacles (anyone from the ESPN network). I have...
Recently, we here in DC were discussing the batting woes of our Nats’ most expensive off-season signing Cristian Guzman ($4.2 million/year). Good news is Cristian is over .200 now, to which we glibly referred to as “The Mendoza Line.” Since...
Horrible Ways to Die: I Guess Nobody Yelled "Fore".....
File another one in the Horrible and Ironic Ways to Die category. You would think that this would happen much more often, what with javelins, hammers, discus, and shot flying around at a track meet. I’d say maybe officials need...
John Feinstein in his AOL golf column has the best final word on Tiger’s “bitchslapping” of the 9th green at Pinehurst last week. I don’t want to harp on this, because it was not THAT big a deal in and...
If nothing else, Game 7 of the NBA Finals will be a referendum on somebody. The question is who? Is it on Duncan, a player whose “superstar” credentials are being questioned for letting a dominant 2-0 start to the...
So the NBA and their players decided NOT to implode their sport at its most vulnerable moment in the last 25 years. Smart move. Who “won” this round? I say the owners, basically. They got max contract length trimmed by...
The following excerpts are from a long and eye opening article on Redskins safety Sean Taylor and his troubled off-season. Kudos to Nunyo Demasio of the Washington Post who staked out Taylor as best he could in search of...
Holy smokes Batman, but it looks like Joe Gibbs might actually get with the new millennium and use the shotgun formation next year. Seeing this photo, is like looking at a grainy picture of the loch ness monster. It’s...
Oh yeah, why DID Gibbs abandon the shotgun formation so many years ago? It was a 1984 playoff game against the Bears. Our starting center Jeff Bostic was out with an injury and Rich Donnelly was filling in. Gibbs tried...
We always like to share enjoyable time wasters on the web (like Czabe.com) and here's one I thought merited a look. It's called "The Phat Phree" and it has some inspired sports commentary. Including this spot on piece called "10...
Golf: US Open React Letters
Lots o' good stuff from readers on the US Open, Tiger, and NBC. Let's open the mailbag.... Czabe, Tiger’s act is getting very tired and I hate having to watch him. Why didn't the USGA do anything? There wasn't a...
Good thing I was rolling on a late “Sportscenter at the US Open” highlight special on Friday night after midnight. ESPN actually showed the Tiger scuff of the green following a missed 10 footer. This guy is unbelievable. When...
One of the main reasons why so many media types are cowed by Woods and his access-denying cronies at IMG, is this blurb recently from the Sports Business Daily. Tiger Woods refused to speak to CBS’ Peter Kostis following last...
Golf: "Yield To Brilliance"
The great Peter Kessler of Golf Magazine (and of course, the Perfect Club) was my guest on Monday’s Fox Sports Radio show, and had the following phrase to describe why he, like I, does not enjoy the overly penal course...
One of the great new things on the PGA Tour is their radio outlet Channel 146 on XM Radio. Okay, go ahead. Get out all the “what is more boring than golf on radio” jokes, but think about it. Golf...
Some guy named Michael McCarthy – who I’ve never heard of – has once again fallen into the “Johnny Miller is so great because he says ‘choke’ about Tour Players” trap while writing a media review on the US Open....
Here’s the daily report via email from Mark Long, Fred Funk’s caddy. Good, inside the ropes, inside the player-caddy “bubble” stuff that you never get to read. Enjoy… Funkster shoots 73, +3.... A bit more than you'd want the first...
The NBA Finals are tied at 2-2, yet you gotta wonder if the ratings might GO DOWN from here on out, unless something changes. Here’s the bizarre and ugly statistical reality: Games have been won by 15, 21, 17, and...
Mike Riley of Panama City writes... Why Lord why must this happen to us? Chris Berman doing the US Open - again!? I just heard him say Brandt "Patience of " Jobe. K.J. "Choi To the World". I love ESPN...
Big Stein has a new playpen on deck in the Bronx, as the Yankees unveiled the new $1 billion "House That Union/Mob Labor Will (Eventually) Build. Here's the full story from Newsday.... Designed by HOK Sport using the original...
Steve-o. I now you are not a follower of the Real World on MTV, but I think you are going to need to check out this season which starts next week. There is a 21 year old girl named...
Thought of the moment on the NBA’s ratings crisis (oops, it’s no crisis, because David Stern insists that viewership in Argentina is bonzo!) that just hit me. The NBA Finals ratings are down from a Jordan-led 15.8 in 1998, to...
Ever wonder if telemarketers keep lists of “insane/problem” households or phone numbers? I am convinced (CONVINCED!) that they do, even though nobody has ever shown me proof, and I’ve never read any articles about the subject. When I lived in...
ESPN.com’s Page 2 Gen-X writer Bill Simmons remains one of the funniest, up to date, biting, intelligent, culturally relevant, and downright enjoyable reads anywhere on the internet. His blog called “More Cowbell” (from the hilarious SNL spoof on Blue Oyster...
Not to steal shamelessly from Simmon’s “bit” of suggesting “new” ESPN’s (Like ESPN9) I have an idea for a “ESPN Classic” of hot women concept that simply needs to be done, one way or another. As I write this post,...
Horrible Ways to Die: Sober Pilots Kill Themselves, Nobody Else In Crash
File this story in the “Horrible and Ironic Ways to Die #2,114” catgegory. Or, well, maybe it’s a Darwin award…… USA Today - Two airline pilots joked and laughed as they flew an empty commercial jet to its limits, switched...
My Nats bounced back last night from the 11-1 hammering by the LAAoAoUSAoPE (The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of United States of America of Planet Earth) that ended the boys 10 game win streak. The game was “spiced...
Eatables: Diet Coke Gets New "Full Bodied" Rival
Nobody loves the sweet but somewhat bitter taste of Diet Coke more than I do. I guzzle those f'ers like water every damn day from sun-up to sun-down. If I am eating a meal or a snack of any kind,...
Do you think Ricky Williams now regrets doing that fake “I’m smoking” move on the sidelines of the game where it was cold enough to see your breath? Every time there is a mention of Ricky and his “return” to...
Kudos to Michelle Wie for making it to the 64 man (ahem… “64 person”) finals of the US Amatuer Publinx championships to be held in mid-July. She shot a one-over par 36 hole total of 145 on the Cedarbrook Golf...
Michael Hiestand writes a very provocative column today in USA Today about the NBA’s plummeting ratings. The two-game average for the Finals is 7% of U.S. TV households, down 32% from the series average for the 2004 Los Angeles Lakers-Detroit...
Put this post in the category of "I'm Just Wonderin...." What if Annika Sorenstam looked like Natalie Gulbis? How much higher would LPGA ratings be on television on a weekly basis? 10% higher? 20%? More? I know it is...
Now that Michael Jackson has sent hack prosecutor Tom Sneddon back to working cases of vagrants caught sleeping on the beach in Santa Barbara, I think it is reasonable to conclude the following lessons from the trial. 1. Money always...
The US Open lands at Pinehurst #2 this week, and you’ll hear two common themes until your head explodes. The first is the Payne Stewart tributes. I have no problem with that, since the story is significant and timely. The...
Phil Jackson is closing in on taking the Lakers job, and my radio pardner Andi Polli just can’t figure out WHY he would return to the “scene of the crime” with all the attendant Kobe headaches and without the Shaq...
As a “card carrying libertarian with a perfect Republican voting record” I believe – in theory, at least - that drug criminalization is not the most effective use of police resources and jail space. Especially, for “low level” drugs like...
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