Ryan Wooden
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Ryan Wooden is an SEC Featured Columnist and a Golf Featured Columnist for Rant Sports. He also serves as the Chicago Bears Examiner for Examiner.com and a freelance contributor to the Morris Daily Herald in Morris, IL. A die-hard Chicago sports fan and Buffalo chicken connoisseur, Ryan attended the University of Tennessee. Now he constantly reminds his Big Ten friends of SEC superiority. Like Ryan on facebook at www.facebook.com/RyanWoodenRantSports, or email Ryan at rwooden2@gmail.com.
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Kentucky Derby Highlights Gap Between Social Classes
There is a defining line at Churchill Downs that separates those that wear floppy hats and inebriate themselves with Mint Juleps and those that wear cut-off t-shirts and drink light beer by the case. On Saturday, as I’ll Have Another was dashing past Bodemeister and into the annals of history, that line was defined by [...]
Rickie Fowler Gets Breakthrough Victory at Wells Fargo Championship
The youth movement in golf got a serious morale boost on Sunday, as Rickie Fowler got his first PGA Tour victory after beating Rory McIlroy and D.A. Points in a playoff at the 2012 Wells Fargo Championship. And in a tournament where Tiger Woods looked about as far from “back” as he ever has, this [...]
Hometown Boy Webb Simpson Tied for Lead at Wells Fargo Championship
Mapquest says it is 0.9 miles from Webb Simpson’s home to the front gates of the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. From the back of the 16th green and facing an impossibly long putt, Simpson had to have felt closer to his home than the hole. But he unleashed a curling 62-footer down [...]
Tiger Woods Still Fighting Demons Off the Tee
Coming off of a victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational heading into last month’s Masters, Tiger Woods had high expectations and appeared to be tying the bow on a newly packaged swing. Things regressed at Augusta National. He fought off a vicious double cross and was lucky to hack his way to a 40th-place finish. [...]
Compacted Schedule Diluting Product of 2012 NBA Playoffs
A wounded Derrick Rose hobbles out to center court before a first round 2012 NBA Playoffs matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers. He isn’t there to try to soldier through another injury. He’s in sweats, and that ACL is torn. Derrick Rose is a mascot now and his primary role for the Chicago Bulls consists of [...]
Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods Lace It Up in Wells Fargo Championship
It’s been nearly a month since we last saw Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods in action on the PGA Tour. Both players took extended absences from tournament golf after disappointing T-40th finishes for the pair in last month’s Masters; however, they’re both going to be in action this weekend at Quail Hollow Golf Club for [...]
Discussion of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Warranted After Junior Seau Death
For 20 years, Junior Seau made a lucrative living out of violently colliding with people. Wednesday, Seau passed away due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. He was 43 years old. Every single day, we get closer and closer to a more complete understanding of the true dangers of this disturbingly destructive relationship [...]
Using Derrick Rose as a Mascot is a Bad Idea for the Chicago Bulls
Wearing a pair of team sweats and a knee brace from just above the ankle to the middle of his thigh that stabilized the left leg and torn ACL, Derrick Rose hobbled to mid-floor before Tuesday’s Game Two playoff matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers. He presented the game ball to referee Courtney Kirkland under a [...]
Best Case Scenario, the Derrick Rose Injury Still Cripples the Chicago Bulls
Thank goodness my Twitter feed is full of amateur diagnosticians. So far, we’ve officially ruled out non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and sarcoidosis (I watch a lot of “House”) as the result of Derrick Rose’s tweaked left knee, an injury suffered in Saturday’s Game 1 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the NBA Playoffs. [...]
New St. Louis Rams CB Janoris Jenkins Inserts Foot Into Mouth
Former Florida defensive back Janoris Jenkins was one of the most physically gifted football players in the entire 2012 NFL Draft class, but a long history of off the field problems kept the star cornerback from becoming the Top 10 pick many believed he would be. He was dismissed from Florida and wound up at [...]
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