IMG to Bivens: See You in Court

Oh yeah, this is going to get ugly real quick. 
Jon Shaw of SportsBusiness Journal, on the possible legal actions already being mulled by various sports agents over at IMG and other firms.
Howard Simon, Exec Dir of Florida’s ACLU chapter, said it was premature to challenge the policy because no suspensions have been handed down, but [...]

“She is a tough cookie, a bit like Hilary Clinton”

Sal Johnson’s piece goes into much depth about the current LPGA kerfuffle.  Of interest to many will be a nice recap of Bivens’ track record to date, a rough and tumble timeline to say the least that has left “Brand Lady,” as blogger and former SI writer Geoff Shackelford derisively labels her, with very few friends.
One [...]

“$10,000 for little or no conversation”

The Golf Channel’s Brian Hewitt weighs in on the LPGA’s new english language internment camp language requirement, and gets down to the nitty gritty of it all: the big wigs ponying up the big bucks at the pro ams weren’t getting their asses kissed enough by the polite, petite Asian girls.
I have watched LPGA Pro-Ams [...]

Take that, South Korea!

It’s hard to know what to say anymore. The LPGA, and professional women’s golf in general, has become so inundated with negatives of late–the Michelle Wie scorecard kerfuffle, the lost sponsorships, the ever sinking television ratings and attendance figures, the demise of Golf for Women–that I was pretty sure that as bad as things were [...]