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  • Poulter battles illness to hold Masters golf lead

    Posted: December 16th, 2011 - 11:29pm by Doug Powell

    England's Ian Poulter held onto a two-stroke lead heading into the third round of today’s Australian Masters at the Victoria Golf Club, despite battling a potential foodborne illness.

    "I woke up this morning and wasn't feeling too good. I don't know if it was something I ate. I was struggling out there this morning even before I got to the range. I would have taken 68 before I set off today. I just got a bug and hopefully I'm through it so I can come out strong tomorrow."

    Nothing says pageantry and grace better than a pro golfer spewing on one of those plush greens on national TV. It reminds me – not the pro gofler part -- of Chapman and Naylor at a long-ago golf trip when an improbable hole-in-one led to a seemingly endless bar tab that had to be consumed that night. Those boys felt the effects the next morning. On the plush terrace of the first tee.

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  • Never vow to eat a worm if you lose a hockey bet

    Posted: April 22nd, 2011 - 7:19am by Doug Powell

    Watching Vancouver collapse to Chicago yet again last night, I took comfort knowing, at least I didn’t bet anything in the hockey playoff pool – except pride.

    Some other guy lost a hockey bet and had to eat a worm.

    Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo! Sports reports that a Colorado Avalanche fan living in Australia, with the handle, Drizzt1 hangs out on the official fan message boards on the Avs' website.

    On Nov. 6, 2010, the Avalanche were set to play the Dallas Stars when another user on those boards predicted that center Kevin Porter(notes), who had yet to score a goal in the regular season, would have the game-winner that night.

    Drizzt1, on 06 November 2010 – 3:08 PM, said:

    I’ll go outside, pick up the closest dead worm, and eat it if that is the case, and put up video evidence on these boards!

    At 10:02 of the first period, Porter scored. The Avalanche won, 5-0. So, while not exactly dramatic, he had the game-winning goal.

    Drizzt1 made good on his wager last Friday. The video is below.

    "Firstly, it was disgusting. It fricken squirmed in my mouth. Secondly, again, I apologize because I was pretty drunk. Third, once it finished, I spewed."
     

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