O’Hurley’s victory dance
Actor John O’Hurley won The Cliffs Challenge on Sunday in Asheville, N.C., beating Annika Sorenstam, Branford Marsalis and Kurt Russell in the made-for-TV event. Competing under the “Wolf” format, O’Hurley pulled away with a net eagle on the par-5 17th. Best known for playing J. Peterman on “Seinfeld,” O’Hurley hit his 3-wood approach into a front bunker, blasted out to within 12 feet and holed the birdie putt. “This thing got really exciting coming to 17 and 18,” said O’Hurley, who earned $300,000 for Golfers Against Cancer. “My heart was in my throat (blasting) out of that sand (on) 17.” The competition will air on CBS on Saturday, Oct. 22.
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Healing powers of Bosox
Boston Red Sox fever does not send people to the hospital. In fact, it seems to have the opposite effect. According to a study published Monday in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, traffic in Boston-area emergency rooms significantly slowed during last year’s Red Sox championship games. “I have no idea where the patients go, but they don’t come into the emergency room,” said Dr. Alasdair Conn, the ER chief at Massachusetts General Hospital. Doctors and the study’s authors suspect that when the Red Sox are in the playoffs, patients who can defer an ER visit will do so. “The heart attacks, the strokes, they will come no matter what’s going on,” Conn said. “The patient with pneumonia, the patient with an asthma attack will say, ‘Maybe I can ride this out at home.”‘
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He’s said it all
“Bud Light.”
Chris Carpenter, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, revealing his favorite pitcher
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Flintstone kids: 10 million strong and growing
Rafael Palmeiro, when he appeared before a panel to appeal his case, allegedly suggested that a vitamin B-12 shot teammate Miguel Tejada offered him might be the reason he tested positive for steroids in May. Points out Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post: “It was allegedly Stanozolol that Palmeiro was nabbed for, a steroid that isn’t exactly found in Flintstone chewables.” Wrote Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle: “Remember the good old days when big-leaguers who needled one another were merely bench-jockeying?”
