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No one in the history of the Los Angles-Southern California Radio Market has announced more sporting events than award-winning broadcast journalist, Ted Sobel. If you have tuned in to the radio, listened to any studio updates, or followed any of the sporting contests in Southern California, you have heard Ted’s concise, succinct, and crisp delivery…
The winners of the Annual Golf Writers Association of America writing contest are littered with many of the great names in sports journalism. Jenkins, Kindred, Sirak, Achenbach, Callahan, Diaz, Kessler, Reilly, Rosaforte, Boswell, Tayor, are some of the masters of composition whose monikers grace the walls in the pantheon of outstanding golf literature. But none…
You could be forgiven if a trace of cynicism enters your thoughts when discussing Augusta National Golf Club’s long history of exclusion, racism, misogyny, and believing its membership was motivated by magnanimity and not a selfish, self-interest and concern over their international branding when their exclusionary policies were relaxed and their membership rolls expanded late…
It’s Masters week, and who better to talk about it than forty-year broadcast veteran and 37-year attendee of the Masters than radio broadcast legend, John Patrick, the Morning Show co-host of NewsTalk WGAC in Augusta, Georgia. One of the great and legendary broadcasters in all the Southern States, whose distinctive voice, witticisms, and banter have…
There are some pundits in the sphere of journalism that would decry the record-setting performance of the #1 player in the World and his overwhelming victory in the COVID-19 delayed 2020 Masters Golf Tournament. Those same scribes might place an asterisk next to the name of the 84th Masters Champion, Dustin Johnson, because of the…
In Dick Schaap’s seminal recounting of the 1974 United States Open Championship, Massacre at Winged Foot, which Hale Irwin won at seven over par, lapping the field. Utah’s Bruce Summerhays was the first contestant off the tee Thursday on that cool morning in early June. It is irony indeed that forty-six years later, when the…