February 17, 2012, 7:51 pm
TORONTO – Iron your golf pants and throw on a collared shirt … its time for Starch Madness.
Yes, that was lame but gimme a break, not much rhymes with March.
More importantly, outside of the majors and the Ryder Cup the opening day of the WGC Accenture Match Play is the best day of the year to be a golf fan.
Thirty-two matches featuring 62 of the top 64 players in the world going head-to-head.
Every week on Tour, when golfers are asked about the pressure of being paired with Player X, Y or Z, we hear the same answers:
I just concentrate on my game and let the rest take care of itself.
Or
Im playing the golf course not my opponent.
Or
I am a golf robot from the planet Par and I have no emotion chip.
Not this week.
Match Play is a different animal.
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February 17, 2012, 2:14 am
The Ontario government and Premier Dalton McGuinty are now recognizing Kickboxing Ontario as the governing body for the amateur game. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
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The Ontario government under Premier Dalton McGuinty, once an obstacle to mixed martial arts, is now recognizing Kickboxing Ontario as the governing body for the amateur game.
Last year, the McGuinty government allowed an Ultimate Fighting Championship event for the first time.
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February 15, 2012, 2:41 am
Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III during a news conference after announcing that he would skip his senior year at Baylor and enter the NFL draft Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock says if he were the Browns, he “would do whatever it takes to get there” to get Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III in the draft a little more than two months from now.
During a lengthy conference call Wednesday, Mayock praised Griffin’s arm strength, athletic ability, pocket awareness and ability to take a hit.
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February 12, 2012, 8:10 am
British Open champion Darren Clarke has appointed Phil “Wobbly” Morbey, who used to caddie for former world number one Ian Woosnam, as his new bagman.
ISM, Clarke’s management team, said that Morbey would launch his partnership with the 43yearold at next week’s WGCAccenture Match Play Championship in Marana, Arizona.
The world number 54 announced in January that he had split up with John Mulrooney, the caddie who helped him land his first major championship at the Open in July.
Northern Irishman Clarke has been out of sorts since his victory at Sandwich, his best result a 20thplace finish at the Volvo Golf Champions tournament in South Africa last month.
He and Mulrooney parted company after the player slumped to rounds of 72 and 81 to miss the cut at the Abu Dhabi Championship two and a half weeks ago.
Morbey spent 14 years as caddie for Woosnam and was with the Welshman when he won the 1991 US Masters.
February 12, 2012, 4:51 am
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – Overall World Cup leader Ivica Kostelic says he hopes to return to competing within a month despite having a knee operation.
The defending overall champion underwent surgery in Basel, Switzerland, after partially tearing cartilage in his right knee during his super-combined victory in Russia on Sunday.
He said upon return to Croatia on Wednesday that the best case scenario would be returning on March 10 at the World Cup slalom race in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.
Kostelic holds a 70-point lead over Beat Feuz of Switzerland in the overall standings. The Croat clinched the super-combined title with Sundays victory.
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