The annual American Century Tahoe Celebrity Golf tournament took place over the weekend in Lake Tahoe. It’s always a character driven event. Posted some quick photos of the newly kempt, but no less ridiculous Jared Allen, the ever increasingly sinister Michael Jordan, and others below.
Golf Digest’s senior travel editor Matt Ginella (I want your job) posted a good write-up on the event – check out Lance Armstrong’s mom, stuck in a bunker.
In lieu of being able to be Ginella, I’ll be trying my hand at the game American Century has posted on WGT.com that allows you to play the back nine at Edgewood Tahoe. One lucky winner is going to win a trip to the 2011 tournament. I’m still trying to get my swing down, good thing this game is nicely addictive.
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer
Immediately following last night’s NBA Draft lottery, columnist David Steele, posted on Twitter asking that armed guards keep Michael Jordan from coming anywhere near D.C. until the draft is over. Wizards fans who remember when Jordan drafted Kwame Brown with the #1 pick in 2001 do not find this statement one bit outlandish.
I thought it worthwhile to revisit that hot debacle, and my research led me to discover that not only did Kwame expect, presumably, that he would average more than 10 points per game more than once (10.9 ppg, his career high in 8 years in the league), but he also thought he might get a chance to shine alongside M.J.
One of those dreams is possibly playing with Jordan, who is contemplating a comeback this season. Broken ribs 2 weeks ago slowed Jordan, but he is getting in condition to play again.
“I had to make my (selection) as if Michael Jordan will not be playing,” Jordan said. “If I decide to play, it’ll only add to what we’ve done.”
Brown is eager to play with Jordan.
“Who else has a chance to say that their boss is the best player ever,” Brown said. “If he plays, I can learn a lot, and I can still learn from him even if he doesn’t.”
Jordan did in fact return during Brown’s rookie season to lead the team in scoring with 22 ppg in 60 games, Brown contributed 4.5 ppg in 57.
Without getting too carried away with the hindsight here, what’s appropriate to describe these statements? Lousy with delusions of grandeur?
Favre was first drafted to play in the NFL aeons and aeons ago in 1991, which, despite how lame his draft day photo makes it look, was actually a pretty prolific year, not to mention the first in a memorable decade of football (the Cowboys won a lot, the Bills lost a lot).
January 27 – The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 in Super Bowl XXV.
February 5 – A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
February 14 – Silence of the Lambs released in theaters.
March 3 – Rodney King attack caught on video.
March 11 – Janet Jackson signs a $30 million contract with Virgin Records, making her the highest paid female recording artist ever.
March 27 - New Kids on the Block’s Donnie Wahlberg is arrested in Louisville, Kentucky for allegedly setting his hotel room on fire.
March 30 – Northern Michigan University defeats Boston University 8-7 in the third overtime to win NCAA Division I hockey title.
April 1 – Comedy Central launches.
August 13 – Metallica releases the Black album.
April 17 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever, at 3,004.46.
April 21 – Brett Favre drafted 33 overall by the Atlanta Falcons
April 26 – 70 tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17.
August 27 – Pearl Jam releases their debut album, “Ten” – has become certified thirteen times Platinum in the United States.
May 25 – The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Minnesota North Stars 8-0 in Game 6 to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
June 7 – City Slickers released in theaters.
June 12 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
June 12 – The Chicago Bulls defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in game five of the NBA Finals to take the series 4-1 and win their 1st NBA championship.
June 17 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
July 22 – Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with raping Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington 3 days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
July 22 – Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. Police soon find out that he is involved in 6 more murders.
June 23 – The first Sonic the Hedgehog game published by Sega.
July 3 – Terminator 2 released in theaters.
July 11 – A solar Eclipse of record totality occurs, seen first in Hawaii then enters Mexico with the path directly crosses Cabo San Lucas and Mexico City seen by 20 million inhabitants, and finally ends in Colombia in South America.
August 13 – Super Nintendo is released in the United States.
September 24 – Nirvana releases Nevermind, debuting at #144 on the Billboard 200.
September 3 – In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
September 19 – Ötzi the Iceman is found in the Alps.
October 2 – Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
October 11 – the KGB is replaced.
October 11–13 – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleges that Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him.
October 27 – The Minnesota Twins win the World Series against the Atlanta Braves.
November 7 – Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career.
November 19 – U2 release Achtung Baby
November 23 – Lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury, reveals he has AIDS; he dies the following day.
November 24 – Freddie Mercury, the lead singer and frontman of British rock group Queen passes away. The official cause of death is bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
November 26 – Michael Jackson releases Dangerous, featuring the hit single Black or White.
December 26 – The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
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Toss your additional ’91 historical facts in the comments, or, post some names of some folks who, like Favre, were born and walked out of the primordial soup of 1969…
So we’re in the bar watching football yesterday afternoon, and this commercial comes on. Before I even have a chance to figure out what’s going on on-screen, my buddy remarks, “this is the douchey-est thing that I’ve ever seen.”
The douchey-est thing that I’ve ever seen. Yep, pretty accurate.
Not for individual sale. If you want them, you gotta plunk down 70 Gs for all 125 pairs of this guy’s Air Jordan collection. All brand new, and in-box.
I used the handy shipping calculator, and it lied to me and said it costs $11.45 to ship these from Las Vegas to New York.
Jaquizz, this can’t be easy for you, friend. But since you’re in Vegas, before you close on a sale I’d advise you to poke around The Trop to see if you can find the real MJ to shell out for this.
Maybe, maybe not, you picked up your Barack Obama Punahou High School basketball jersey when we were all shilling for that a while back…in the same throwback light, check out what, in my opinion, is the best in campaign athletic wear yet: This is of course a retro Air Jordan favorite from when Michael was in his prime, or what I like to call the Steve Kerr era.
