2011 October at BetLM

Clarke Says Friends Have Damaged Claret Jug With Butter Hands

When he won the Open Cham­pi­onship in July, Dar­ren Clarke said he would show rev­er­ence for the Claret Jug that he got for win­ning the game’s old­est major. That rev­er­ence included not drink­ing alco­holic bev­er­ages out of it. That was Clarke, how­ever. His friends were not so care­ful with the tro­phy, forc­ing the Ulster­man to do a lit­tle repair work on it. “I’ve not man­aged to drop it, but a few other peo­ple have so I’ve had to twist and straighten it out,” Clarke said. “It can bend quite eas­ily believe it or not. I won’t tell where it was but... 

Five for the Weekend: Roe Ends Hoops Career, but He Should Be OK

Delvon Roe is fin­ished with basketball. Let’s start the Five for the Week­end with that. 1. How good could Michi­gan State’s Delvon Roe have been if not for his body fail­ing him? I sup­pose we’ll never know for sure, but I can tell you this: Roe was so awe­some in high school that Scout.com ranked him ahead of prospects like Kemba Walker, Al-Farouq Aminu, Elliot Williams, Iman Shumpert, Luke Bab­bit, Ter­rico White, Klay Thomp­son and DeAn­dre Lig­gins. In other words, Roe was a safe bet to be an NBA Draft pick just like all of those guys became, but that was before the 6-foot-8... 

Taylor Fedun Ranks as the Latest Victim of NHL’s Archiac Icing Rules

New head of dis­ci­pline Bren­dan Shana­han faces some tough issues when it comes to revamp­ing the NHL’s sus­pen­sion sys­tems. One of the most dif­fi­cult ques­tions to answer is: “How do you make the game safer with­out elim­i­nat­ing a nec­es­sary phys­i­cal ele­ment from defen­sive play?” Bren­dan Smith’s hit on Ben Smith earned a deserved pun­ish­ment, but it at least falls under the cat­e­gory of nor­mal hockey checks gone wrong. To some extent, there’s only so much the league can do unless they want the game to turn into flag foot­ball on ice. That... 

Kevin Durant Has Russell Westbrook’s Back, Wants Him to Stay

The peo­ple call­ing for Rus­sell West­brook to be traded after the Thun­der were elim­i­nated by the Dal­las Mav­er­icks in the West­ern Con­fer­ence Finals are just plain crazy. In the end up on Horders kind of way. West­brook is one of the best young point guards in the league, and while he made mis­takes he and the team are grow­ing. He is eli­gi­ble for a con­tract exten­sion once the lock­out ends and he should get one the first sec­ond the Thun­der can offer it up. Young stars like him are hard to come by. OKC was on the doorstep of the finals and all their core play­ers...