| Elling's Short Game
Open mikes, open mouths and unscripted hours of filling mostly mundane airtime can be a rough combination during a live golf broadcast, as the Golf Channel has learned in its 53 weeks as the PGA Tour's primary broadcast network. During second-round coverage of the tour's season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship last week, analyst Kelly Tilghman offered a racially tinged remark in jest, stating that younger players on tour should "lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley." Tilghman apologized over the weekend and has also communicated her unfortunate choice of words, first reported by Newsday, to Woods' representatives, the network said. Woods is part African-American. Said the company in a statement attributed to nobody in particular: "We regret if any viewers were offended by Kelly's choice of words on Friday's telecast.
Cameron speech in full
Boy has this guy got a plan. It's to appeal to that 4% of people in marginal seats. With a dog whistle on immigration there and a word about crime here, wrap yourself up in the flag and talk about Britishness enough times and maybe, just maybe, you can convince enough people that you are on their side. Well I say, God we've got to be better than that. You know, what about the 40% of our fellow citizens who have given up on voting? They are just fed up with the whole rat-race of politics, the whole merry-go-round. We have got to inspire them that we can bring real change and deal with the things that people care about. People want the politics of belief and that means politics they can really believe in. So today I want to tell you what I believe. I want to tell you what's wrong with our country and I want to explain what I am going to do to put it right.
Wild Card/Vacation Day 11 of 12
Only two more shopping days until I return to the final days of the City Council campaigns. Then, we'll have fun taking apart the campaigns. Any dirt yet? Any mudslinging. You know, the good stuff. Or is everyone behaving? My wife is now looking over my shoulder -- literally -- so I have to pretend that I'm just checking ball scores. See ya in two days. Here's Wild Card ... .
Tech's all-time top 25 flops
Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC, and the world might never have heard the name of Kildall's competitor, who eventually accepted the contract: a Mr. Bill Gates. .
Kevin Everett on SI cover, plans to speak to Titans
If they can add a couple more pieces in the off-season, the Texans could be pretty salty in 2008 . . . Cowboys coach Wade Phillips doesn't have much time to watch movies during football season, but you can bet he'll find a way to take wife Laurie to see Charlie Wilson's War. The film about the Lufkin congressman, which stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, casts the Phillips' daughter, Tracy, in the role of a Fort Worth belly dancer who was one of Wilson's companions during his clandestine support of anti-Soviet rebels in 1980s Afghanistan. Tracy, who is in her late 20s, was hand-picked for what is her most significant role to date by noted producer Mike Nichols. "This is her best part yet," says Wade. "We're hoping it opens some doors." The movie premieres Friday . . . PN-G ex Lew Ford will be breaking new ground for a Southeast Texas baseball player in 2008.
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Hoosiers get message: Attack rim
With a constant barrage of nifty drives from guards Eric Gordon and Jamarcus Ellis, No. 15 Indiana finally got past Georgia Tech 83-79 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
"We knew we had to come out and attack and keep attacking," said Lance Stemler, who had 15 points including three three-point baskets for the Hoosiers. "We just never quit."
After losing for the first time Saturday night, Indiana had little choice.
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