Category: Sports

Another One Bites The Dust Of Wokeness

Caitlin Clark Felt For It

Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever WNBA Basketball Team

I do not follow the WNBA, or the NBA, but Caitlin Clark is hard to avoid as she is in every internet search engine in the world.

While doing research, I found out the WNBA was a failed financial endeavor prior to Clark’s arrival into the league.

Clark’s professional debut, after a successful and record-breaking college career, was a lifeline the WNBA was desperately in need. Unfortunately, the Black dominated league, has been too stupid to ride the high, instead going the low route and using Clark’s God given color of her skin, to trash her every step of the way.

The only games that have sold out throughout the season were games were Clark’s team, the Indiana Fever, were scheduled to play. It is obvious, Clark is the ticket and everyone else is going along for the ride. Again, the WNBA has failed miserably to take advantage of this, once in a lifetime, phenom.

Clark was recently named Time’s Athlete Of The Year. I guess if you believe in that type of banality, you will find it a kind of a big deal, to me is nothing that matters much. Having said that, to the general public it is a significant accomplishment and one that has a huge reach.

In her interview with Time she was quoted with the following: “I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a White person, there is privilege,” Clark told Time. “A lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been Black players. This league has kind of been built on them. 

Well, I am not one to apologize for who I am or my accomplishments, so to read Clark’s statement apologizing for her so-called “White Privilege” was a big disappointment. Not only did I believe it was beneath her to say such a thing, but it was a slap in the face to her fans.

In 2023, Statista.com reported that 63.8% of WNBA players were Black, with only 19.1% percent accounting for White players. If you ask me, the percentage disparity between Black and White players is problematic to say the least.

How Black WNBA players can claim there is a race problem in the WNBA is beyond me.

“WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson said Clark being White was a “huge thing” when it came to Clark’s popularity. Angel Reese even said there had been “a lot of racism” from Iowa and Indiana Fever fans. Connecticut Sun player DiJonai Carrington, who poked Clark in the eye during a Connecticut playoff win over the Fever, previously criticized Clark for not doing more to call out racism.”

Are they serious? This is an absolutely ridiculous collection of statements that do not hold water. That would mean the WNBA has been a racist organization against Blacks the whole time, despite the fact Black players dominate the league. This is laughable to say the least.

Sadly, Clark fell for the oldest liberal trick in the book and now she has lost all credibility; or has she?

Only time will tell if this will affect the already failed WNBA. Clark was their savior, but they turned her into their own racist punching bag.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/caitlin-clark-admits-feeling-privilege-white-person-says-wnba-built-on-black-players

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1375205/wnba-players-ethnicity

McIlroy’s Nightmare Continues

Whoop! Whoop!

Rory is “Fighting Something” Photo courtesy of msn.com

Rory McIlroy is definitely fighting something: A weak state of mind.

I am all for technology and taking advantage of every piece of information available. But to allow technology to dictate how I am supposed to play or live my life, that is a whole different thing.

It seems Rory McIlroy is doing that. Golf.com is quoting him saying after his first round at the 2023 PGA Championship, “I’m fighting something.”

“I thought I got a great night’s sleep last night, and I look at my WHOOP, and I was 22% recovery, and my skin temperature was 3.5 degrees higher than what it’s been, I’m fighting something.”

Say what? My WHOOP? Oh brother! Calling McIlroy a basket case is an understatement.

Honestly? I do not know what to make of Rory McIlroy. But if you thought for a minute I would give him a pass, you are highly mistaken. McIlroy made his own cozy bed, running his mouth about things he did not know anything about, and disrespecting lots of people in the process.

Sleep well on that bed Rory. Whoop! Whoop!

A Man Without Conviction

Rory McIlroy

Rory McIlroy Photo courtesy of golfdigestme.com

There is no doubt, Rory McIlroy is one of the best professional golfers in the world. His accomplishments are well documented and he can be a very entertaining golfer when his game is on.

Unfortunately, this is not what McIlroy has been remembered for as of late.

Since the creation of LIV Golf, McIlroy chose to be the de-facto leader of the PGA Tour. Taking on LIV Golf, Phil Mickelson, and the great Greg Norman, he decided to interject on something he obviously did not have much knowledge of.

For over a year, press conference, after press conference, McIlroy has sounded like PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan’s loudspeaker, unlike Jon Rahm who decided to concentrate on his game and stayed above the pettiness of it all.

Nobody can deny the fact, LIV Golf has changed the face of professional golf and has forced the PGA Tour to be transparent. McIlroy is making more money because Phil Mickelson and LIV Golf shined a light on the PGA Tour’s alleged financial shenanigans.

As a result of McIlroy’s lack of attention, and self appointed leadership role, his own game has suffered and it seems his mental health has taken a hit. His performance at the 2023 Masters was dismal and he chose to disappear for over four weeks, missing his second PGA Tour “Elevated Event” of the season.

According to him, he needed a mental health break from golf. I have to admit, I needed a mental health break from all his nonsense.

This evening, I watched his interview with Golf Channel’s Kyra Dixon and I have to say, he sounded like a man without conviction. His weak answers were telling and it showed me he is not ready to return to the “Big Time” yet.

McIlroy looked more like a lost teenager than a professional golfer on a mission.

My unsolicited advice? Rory McIlroy needs to pay more attention to his own professional career and leave the adults in the room deal with the nuisances of the Tour.

Has he learned his lesson? Only time will tell.

The Continuous Trip Down Irrelevancy Road

Brandel Chamblee

Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee. Photo courtesy of golfnewsri.com

Another week and another opportunity for Brandel Chamblee to make a fool of himself on national television.

On Monday’s episode of Live From The PGA Championship, Chamblee went on a full frontal attack against Phil Mickelson and LIV Golf.

Along with Rich Lerner and Paul McGinley, they were discussing Phil Mickelson’s recent Twitter spat with the USGA and his use of vulgar language. Seriously? Vulgar language?

Chamblee went on to say Mickelson was riding a high after his second place finished at The Masters and that was one of the reasons why he was going after the “establishment.”

He stated that Tiger Woods, not Phil Mickelson, was responsible for the increase in PGA Tour purses. This is laughable to say the least. Phil Mickelson sounding the horn on the PGA Tour alleged financial shenanigans and the emergence of LIV Golf were part of the reasons why the Tour came up with all the changes and increase in purses.

As he went on, Chamblee insinuated Augusta National was a hacker’s paradise.

He alleged Mickelson’s second place finish at The Masters was expected because Augusta National is where, and I am paraphrasing, ‘has been’ golfers go for a second wind, including the likes of Jack Nicklaus in 1986. Say what?

He continued to spew his normal garbage about how LIV Golf was losing lawsuits and players were not happy. According to Chamblee, Mickelson made a lot of promises he did not fulfilled and players were complaining about it.

I do not know where Chamblee is getting his bad information, but LIV Golf players are pretty happy and people are watching more and more.

He continued to ramble about Mickelson, insider trading, and all kind of nonsense that had nothing to do with golf, nor golf fans care about.

Chamblee’s LIV Golf Derangement Syndrome is real and it only continues to make him look like small and irrelevant.

Rory McIlroy Chose To Be The Leader Of The Pack

His Woes Are All On Him

It was funny to see the triumvirate of Rory apologists at the Golf Channel making all kind of excuses as to why Rory McIlroy shot a 76 today in the first round at the Players Championship.

Rich Lerner, Brandel Chamblee, and Paul McGinley, were commenting on how McIlroy looked tired, his swing was out of sorts, and how he seemed not to be in the moment. I do agree with their assessment, and I will add, McIlroy even looks old.

Unfortunately, the reasons for their assessment are completely misleading. Since the inception of LIV Golf into the picture, McIlroy chose to be the face of the PGA Tour. In addition, as the Player’s Advisory Council Chairman and one of the Player Directors at the PGA Tour Policy Board, he took upon the responsibilities, and it is his job to defend the “product.”

The Zoom calls and meetings are part of his duties, and he is not the first one on tour history to deal with those duties and responsibilities.

Perhaps he is having a problem dealing with it and it has creeped into his own game.

For Paul McGinley to say McIlroy has taken “more bullets than other players” and use it as an excuse to justify his lackluster performance, is a joke. McIlroy chose to be the “lead player voice” on the PGA Tour.

Unlike Jon Rahm, and some of the other top players, who have chosen to just play golf and let the suits at PGA HQ deal with LIV Golf, McIlroy chose to take the fight to LIV Golf on his own. He has berated Greg Norman, LIV Golf players, and has flipped flopped his positions about LIV Golf from week to week.

One week he hates LIV Golf and this week he thanks LIV Golf for making the PGA Tour a better product.  Perhaps he is indeed tired and cannot keep his convictions or lack thereof together.

At the end of the day, Rory McIlroy has nobody to blame but himself for his failures on the golf course. Jay Monahan is the commissioner of the PGA Tour; he is the man in charge of all the administrative issues and grievances concerning the tour.

McIlroy is a professional golfer and that is where all his energy should be concentrated on.

For him to think that he can carry the torch for the tour all by himself, it is silly and detrimental to his game and psyche. PGA Tour players want to do one thing and one thing only, play golf. All that other mumbo-jumbo they cannot control is unnecessary noise they do not wish to deal with.

Rory McIlroy is his own man, and he is responsible for his own decisions, plain and simple.

Rory McIlroy owns his woes and they are all in his head.