The News Review:
- Tiger Woods returning to golf next week
- Phil Mickelson blisters Riviera with a 63
- TV-Radio Notebook: Extra Points given boot by KTRK
- 7 sports submit proposals for 2016 lympics
Tiger Woods returning to golf next week
San Jose Mercury News USA -
pen on one good leg a healthy Tiger Woods is returning to golf. Woods said on his Web site Thursday that he will defend his title next week in the Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson. “I’m now ready to play again” said Woods recovered from left-knee surgery.
Phil Mickelson blisters Riviera with a 63
Los Angeles Times CA -
And it’s evident the first three weeks that I just can’t play missing it to the right. McCarron just couldn’t play Riviera so well in fall 1983 but that’s because he’d just alighted as a freshman Bruin whereupon he began considering 75 a sublime score here. Now 25 years and three tour wins and $10. 5 million in earnings later he sees Planet Golf from age 43 and feels “thoroughly amazed at how far these young kids are hitting it. n a recuperative day for creaking bones when the leaderboard showed 67s belonging to 49-year-old Fred Couples 49-year-old Tommy Armour III 49-year-old Paul Azinger and 46-year-old Kirk Triplett maybe McCarron spoke for these savvy geriatrics. “I’ve still got maybe a little extra gear” he said “but it’s more like a Volkswagen Beetle as opposed to somebody’s Ferrari” and as one Ferrari he mentioned Johnson the Pebble Beach champion who has played his last 84 holes with only two bogeys and one double bogey and who said “I don’t know golf when you’re playing well you just kind of keep going. He said that from age 24 while Ishikawa spoke from a wise 17 about a kind of nervousness he’d never felt his whole entire life and while the biggest racket came familiarly from a guy who’s 33.
TV-Radio Notebook: Extra Points given boot by KTRK
Houston Chronicle United States -
Fox Sports Houston also has expanded Houston Sports Beat to twice weekly so perhaps it would be well-advised to add Extra Points contributors Charlie Pallilo Ralph Cooper and Kenny Hand to its roster. If that happens Extra Points could be Humpty Dumpty by the time August rolls around. Moving to the radio side Joe Pogge’s Smokin’ Joe’s Driving Range golf show is moving to 7 a. Saturdays on KILT (610 AM). The show most recently appeared on KFNC (97. 5 FM) and takes over a Saturday slot previous held by a Texans-related fitness show.
7 sports submit proposals for 2016 lympics
USA Today -
Baseball softball rugby sevens squash and karate also sent in their documents by this week’s deadline providing answers to 80 questions the IC said Thursday. The seven sports are competing for a maximum of two openings on the 2016 program. The decision will be made in ctober at the IC session in Copenhagen where the 2016 lympic host city will also be selected from Chicago Tokyo Madrid and Rio de Janeiro. The IC program commission will evaluate the sports federations’ documents and submit a preliminary report to the executive board in June.
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