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Pretty sweet seeing Doug Collins and Elaine Benes in the stands weeping after Northwestern pulled that one out.

Shame it had to end with an inexplicable brain freeze by Vandy, though...

Back in the Sweet 16. Suck it Louisville

Great story on the life and death of former Vandy pitcher Donnie Everett...this is a great read!

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/born-to-be-a-vandyboy/#MQX7zcAcegfZmp2t.97

He is going to sucker some team into a 3 year contract this off-season.

The problem, I would argue, is not with golf officials but golf rules.  Which are stupid in many instances, including this one.  The officials enforced the rule as written.

If a player incorrectly marks the ball, I don't have a problem with the 2-stroke penalty.  It is what it is.  My problem is with penalizing a player for incorrectly signing a scorecard when THE SCORECARD WAS CORRECT WHEN THEY SIGNED IT.  It was the LPGA's error in not catching this before she signed the Saturday card, not Thompson's.  Why the f uck should she be penalized an extra two strokes for THEIR mistake?

I also have a problem with the officials telling the player in the middle of their round, which is a huge emotional blow.  They did the same thing to Dustin Johnson at the U.S. Open last year, but at least it was in the middle of the same round.  The problem there was they didn't decide whether to assess the penalty until after the round was complete - which meant all the players in contention (including Johnson) had no idea what the leaderboard was.  And that dramatically impacts the way you would play the final holes.

My only problem with the original penalty is when it was assessed.  The next day is way beyond anyone's definition of reasonable.  As far as signing an incorrect scorecard goes, that is being penalized twice for the same infraction.

This is not at all like what happened to Craig Stadler a number of years ago.  The Walrus was going to play a shot from his knees and put a towel down to keep his pants clean.  A viewer called in and said he was unfairly building a stance.

They really need to address this. Nobody I know likes the outcome the way it is. Perhaps they should have one rules official per group whose job it is to catch this stuff. If they sign the scorecard then it is official. No more of this BS where a fan calls in and affects the outcome of a major. And by the way, missing the spot by an inch on a gimme putt has no bearing on the tournament whatsoever. And to whoever felt the need to call in the "infraction" you are an idiot. She lost the major and $150,000 because of that idiot and the dumb rules that encouraged them.