By: Baltimore Sun Sports
// May 15, 2012
Home-grown Orioles star's accolades too numerous to name, but he wants to be remembered simply as a 'gamer'.
There's the Hall of Fame plaque, the World Series ring and the hardware he won for Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player (twice) and countless other accomplishments.
Sometimes, Cal Ripken Jr. looks at that stuff and wonders: Is it really mine?
"The farther removed [from playing] that I get, the more it all seems like another lifetime. But I'm pretty sure it all...
By: The Telegraph
// May 9, 2012
The former world No 1 refuses to accept that his recent struggles – he finished in a tie for 40th at the Masters and then missed the cut at Quail Hollow last week — can be put down to anything other than his latest swing change. And he switched into ridicule mode when told of Faldo’s claims concerning his broken psyche.
“I always find it interesting [the critics’ comments] since they’re not in my head,” Woods said. “How do they know what I...
By: Golf Channel
// May 8, 2012
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Rory McIlroy vs. Rickie Fowler.
Do they have a future as rivals?
Johnny Miller, Nick Faldo and Brandel Chamblee were asked to compare and contrast the two Tuesday during an NBC/Golf Channel media conference call for The Players Championship.
Here are some highlights:
Miller: “The thing I like about Rickie is he's so in control emotionally. When he misses a putt, you can't even hardly tell he missed it by watching his expression or...
By: Dan Steinberg, Washington Post
// May 8, 2012
Cole Hamels suggested that hitting Bryce Harper was part of “that old-school, prestigious way of baseball.”
Mike Rizzo then suggested that Hamels’s decision “ain’t old school. That’s [bleeping] chicken [bleep].”
I’m pretty sure Cal Ripken is old school. And he sided with Rizzo on this one.
Here’s a bit of dialog between Cal and brother Billy on MLB Network Radio’s Ripken Baseball, talking about the incident....