Billy Mayfair Back to Future at Q School

Filed under: PGA, Nationwide Tour

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. -- PGA Tour Qualifying School cares little about history.

Last year does not exist. At Q School it's here and now -- or not at all.

Otherwise, there's no way to explain 22-year veteran Billy Mayfair -- five career wins and more than $18 million in earnings -- showing up this week at Orange Country National for the final stage of the annual qualifying process.

Again.

Yeah, Mayfair has gone through the six-round marathon before. Once -- 22 years ago immediately after coming out of Arizona State.

Since then the 1988 U.S. Amateur winner has been one of the PGA Tour's Steady Eddies. After advancing in his only previous trip through qualifying, Mayfair has played 673 PGA Tour events, been in the money 423 times and recorded 69 top 10s.

Mayfair won his first professional tournament in 1993 by beating Mark Calcavecchia and Ted Schulz in a playoff in Milwaukee. He became the only tour player to beat Tiger Woods in a playoff when he took him down in extra holes at the 1998 Nissan Open in Valencia, Calif. He won the 1995 Tour Championship.

And in 2006 he beat testicular cancer.

 

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Source: http://golf.fanhouse.com/2010/12/03/billy-mayfair-back-to-future-at-q-school/

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Jimmie Johnson Taking Time to Savor Fifth Championship in Las Vegas

Filed under: Jimmie Johnson, Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCAR

LAS VEGAS -- In a luxury suite in the Bellagio Hotel high above the Las Vegas strip, Jimmie Johnson was all smiles and "aw shucks" on the eve of collecting an unprecedented fifth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship trophy. He was at the hotel to meet with a small group of reporters and to unveil the true benchmark of an athlete's success.

Forget the historic five NASCAR titles, Johnson now has a video game named after him: "Jimmie Johnson's Anything With an Engine."

The game doesn't go on sale until 2011, but the concept launch this week meant the vivid collision between two of America's favorite pastimes, video gaming and NASCAR. And it was interesting to observe the hip, young gaming reporters, dressed in black adorned with lots of zippers and skull designs and colorful tattoos, sizing up the NASCAR All-American good guy's entry into their eclectic world.

"So how does it feel to be a legend?'' asked Jon Carnage, a former professional wrestler who is now a reporter from the video game blog Destructoid. He clearly caught the humble Johnson off guard.

"It's still strange to me that I hear that,'' Johnson replied.

Perhaps he should get used to it.

 

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/12/03/jimmie-johnson-taking-time-to-savor-fifth-championship-in-las-ve/

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The Next Tiger? Meet Joseph Bramlett

Filed under: PGA

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. -- Veteran Billy Mayfair won the PGA Tour's Qualifying Tournament Monday. That's good. Joseph Bramlett finished seven shots back and tied for 16th. Maybe, even better.

That's how Q School, golf's six-day, 108-hole coming-of-age event, works. Nobody really wins qualifying. Success is achieved by surviving -- that means finishing among the top 25 and ties -- to play in next season's PGA Tour.

"Yeah, this is about as good as it can get right now," Bramlett said. "You always play to win, but just getting that tour card is winning."

For more reasons than the obvious.

Bramlett, 22 and fresh out of Stanford, will bring more than a promising game and high hopes to the 2011 PGA Tour season. He'll bring a little more color.

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Billy Mayfair Back to Future at Q-School

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Source: http://golf.fanhouse.com/2010/12/06/the-next-tiger-meet-joseph-bramlett/

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Administrators Agree on Little but Unite on No Compensation for Student-Athletes

by Terrance Harris

Filed under: Media Watch, General CFB Insanity, Sports Business and Media

NEW YORK - It's interesting. You can put athletic administrators from across the country in the same building and they seem to disagree on just about every burning issue in intercollegiate athletics.

Conference realignment. A football playoff versus the bowl system. The number of years of eligibility a student-athlete should be allowed. How to ensure student-athletes graduate. You name it, there is a rarely a consensus in the room.

But when the subject of paying intercollegiate student-athletes as coaches contracts become bigger and television revenues reach once unimaginable levels, there is finally an agreement: That is never going to happen.

In fact, NCAA president Mark Emmert (right) set the tone of this week's IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum when during his opening remarks he professed, "As long I am president of the NCAA, we will not pay student-athletes."

That seemed to be the sentiment of all of the administrators who attended the forum that did not include student-athletes.

 

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Source: http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/09/administrators-agree-on-little-but-unite-on-no-compensation-for/

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Marcos Ambrose Is NASCAR Crash King With 19 Incidents

Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Elliott Sadler, Jimmie Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., NASCAR Crashes, Sprint Cup, Joey Logano, FanHouse Exclusive, NASCAR

Marcos Ambrose, NASCAR's Aussie driver, did not let a mid-season surge in futility by Elliott Sadler deter him from capturing the season 'championship' in yellow-flag crashes and spins.

Coming on strong during the final eight races with seven spins or crashes, including a final spin (at right) during the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Ambrose easily outdistanced the competition in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series to post a season-leading 19 incidents and win the title by two.

Sadler, meanwhile, found uncommon consistency in the final stretch, chalking up only a single yellow flag in an incident at Martinsville Speedway during the last eight races. That brought his season total to 15, a number easily surpassed not only by Ambrose, but by hard-luck Sam Hornish Jr., who reached the second-highest total of 17 after the misfortune of four more incidents in the final eight races, including two in the Martinsville race.

Kyle Busch and Joey Logano were tied for fourth in our exclusive FanHouse crash and spin roundup, with 14 incidents apiece.

Drivers involved in 13 spins or crashes in the 36-race schedule, or one every three races, were Kurt Busch, Kasey Kahne, Brad Keselowski and Juan Pablo Montoya.

In our tally, we count an incident on a driver's tally if his car is listed as being involved in a spin or a crash that brings out a yellow flag. Caution periods caused by stalled cars, engine failures or debris do not count, unless a spin or crash was involved and a car number listed.

 

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/11/28/marcos-ambrose-is-nascar-crash-king-with-19-incidents/

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Dana Holgorsen Reportedly Headed to West Virginia as Coach-In-Waiting

Filed under: Oklahoma State, West Virginia

Dana Holgorsen, Oklahoma State's offensive coordinator, will reportedly be leaving the school after one season to take the same post at West Virginia before becoming the head coach there.

According to reports, Holgorsen will be West Virginia's offensive coordinator and coach-in-waiting in 2011 before taking over for Bill Stewart in 2012. Holgorsen will reportedly get a six-year deal, with a term of five years as head coach.

The rest of the West Virginia staff will be retained in 2011, according to reports, while current coordinator Jeff Mullen is in limbo, waiting to hear whether he gets the head coaching job at Kent State.

In his first season with the Cowboys, Holgorsen led the nation's top-ranked offense with 538 yards per game. West Virginia, meanwhile, finished No. 64 with 377 yards per game. The Mountaineers finished this season 9-3 (5-2) and will be playing N.C. State in the 2010 Champs Sports Bowl on Dec. 28.

 

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Source: http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/14/dana-holgorsen-reportedly-headed-to-west-virginia-as-coach-in-wa/

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First-Place Dallas Stars Meet Pacific Division's Usual Leader

Filed under: Sharks, Stars, Western

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The last time Dallas faced the Sharks, it turned out to be the Stars' most important game of the year, according to right wing Adam Burish.

The Stars came back from two goals down to beat San Jose 5-4 last month, and the win helped the upstart Dallas team believe in themselves even more strongly.

"That San Jose game was the biggest one of all because now we know we can come back from two down," Burish told FanHouse on Monday after the team's morning skate. "I keep going back to that game, because that was a big story."

Stars coach Marc Crawford agreed, and he said one reason that that game was so key was that it helped Mike Ribiero, who opened the season in a real slump, get going. He scored his first two goals of the season, including the game-winner.

 

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Source: http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2010/12/13/first-place-dallas-stars-meet-pacific-divisions-usual-leader/

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