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Who Put This Jazz Song on Repeat?

The Utah Jazz will open their season Wednesday night in Denver with three players out to injury and two others being game-time decisions. Where have I heard this before? Ohhhh, right, last year...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 month ago 118 reads 9 comments
Masters Update: Tiger Makes the Cut

It sounds silly to say that someone could spot the field seven strokes for 36 holes in a major championship and still win. Mostly because it has never been done successfully at Augusta...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 7 months ago 168 reads 0 comments
Masters Update: Tiger Woods Ties His Best Opening Round Ever at Augusta

Tiger Woods shot a respectable round of 70 that will maintain his position as the man to beat if you desire to wear a handsome green jacket on Sunday afternoon network television...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 7 months ago 609 reads 6 comments
Tiger Woods Wins the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Again

Tim Finchem can exhale: the PGA Tour recession has just ended. Perhaps the most famous athlete ever, Tiger Woods re-emerged in his hometown of Orlando, Florida to hoist the Bay Hill Invitational trophy for the sixth time...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 8 months ago 190 reads 0 comments
PGA Tour Embarks On a New Marketing Journey

You might find this difficult to believe, but apparently the PGA tour has taken a cue from the LPGA Tour by relaxing its strict dress code for players in an effort to attract more fans...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 8 months ago 255 reads 21 comments
Tiger Woods' Professional Expectations are Very...Low?

Tiger Woods will not win a major championship this season and probably will not win one professional golf tournament in 2009...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 9 months ago 583 reads 37 comments
Alex Rodriguez Admits Nothing We Didn't Already Know

For the record, I will sing backup vocals...oh, and I don't really care how a person abuses themselves physically. Please, just stop abusing me mentally with your fake apologies and insincere excuses...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 9 months ago 131 reads 42 comments
Wildly Speculative Utah Jazz Rumor From Dubious Sources: CONFIRMED

So I think B/R has a new marketing angle for at least one of it's writers. A certain J.Michael Morris (if that is his real name) wrote an article on December 20th of 2008 that cited a very questionable source on some breaking news...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 10 months ago 346 reads 14 comments
A Farewell to Arms (Flying in the Air Wildly) in the NBA

The NBA has been pushing, quite successfully, to become world attraction similar to soccer. One unintended consequence of this ambition is that some of the negative aspects of international play seep into league...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 10 months ago 153 reads 25 comments
The BCS Controversy Can Be Placed Squarely on the SEC's Shoulders

Please SEC, use your non-conference schedule to give mid-majors a loss, like all other BCS conference schools do, instead of playing FCS cupcakes...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 10 months ago 755 reads 28 comments
Las Vegas Bowl: 22 Mormon Boys Expose Themselves in Las Vegas

The headline is really all I have, but isn't it funny? Okay I'll try to go a little more in depth. BYU's quest for perfection ended last night in an embarrassing, sloppy, turnover and penalty riddled high school quality football game...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 11 months ago 1,085 reads 27 comments
Could Jazz Be for Sale? Utah Rumor Mill in Full Production

You've all heard that Carlos Boozer accidentally on purpose expressed his desire to make more money in a casual conversation with an ESPN.com reporter. Boozer, like everyone else in the world, thinks he is more valuable than his employer does...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 11 months ago 592 reads 25 comments
BCS: Just Let the Fat Kid Play—What Are You Afraid of?

The only problem with college sports is that there are just way too many teams for every team to compare themselves directly against every other team on an annual basis...

Written by J. Michael Morris about 11 months ago 129 reads 11 comments
Utah Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan: Tragic Protagonist

They say that a boy never really becomes a man until his father dies. If this is true, Jerry Sloan became a man when he was four years old. This may have been the first major disappointment in his life, but it certainly wasn’t the last...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 595 reads 12 comments
Avella High Football Embodies "Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win"

My junior high P.E. teacher had a gym full of posters with sports clichés designed to inspire the kids and teach us life lessons. They became the students' punch line of our garage band slacker generation...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 707 reads 20 comments
Hope For Change Of The 2009 PGA Tour Sponsorships

The 2009 PGA Tour season will have a few sponsorship changes after a financial market meltdown effectively blamed on rampant capitalist freedom...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 1,278 reads 15 comments
For Non-BCS Football Teams Winning Is Not Enough

Here we go again, another “woe is me” article about the inherent unfairness of the BCS system. I promise, this is not that article...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 882 reads 27 comments
When Will Dana White Swoop In to Pick the Carcass of Elite XC?

The recent phantom punch knockout of street fighting legend Kimbo Slice by UFC reality show failure Seth Petruzelli could metaphorically foreshadow the entire EliteXC company’s dismal future...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 293 reads 6 comments
Pre-Season College Football Hype Does Actually Matter

For all the criticism of the BCS, there are more than a few things they do right. One is that they refrain from ranking football teams until well into the season. BCS rankings come out on October 19th this season...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 411 reads 6 comments
One Last Chance for Chicago Cubs

There was a time when all that mattered to a 13-year-old boy was watching the Chicago Cubs play baseball on television...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 840 reads 36 comments
Utah-Oregon State: Thursday Night Lights for Interesting Matchup

Another potentially exciting Thursday night game is scheduled on the Versus network this week. The Trojan-slaying Oregon State Beavers meet potential BCS Buster No. 15 Utah. Yes, the Utes' mascot is Joe Pesci in an Armani suit...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 930 reads 16 comments
The FedEx Cup: The Worst $10 Million Ever Spent

The PGA Tour's Fed Ex Cup race is over. Thank goodness. Vijay Singh won the $10 million first prize by finishing 22nd in the tour championship, out of 30 players invited. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz There was almost some drama in the event...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 990 reads 7 comments
Does the BCS Need a Bailout After the Collapse of USC?

The nation's finest football team, USC, has collapsed overnight. This meltdown has sent the college football markets into a state of confusion. Until last night, almost none of the anointed college football ranking minds believed it was possible...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 886 reads 24 comments
Captain Azinger and the U.S. Ryder Cup Team "Flip the Script" on the Euros

Captain Paul Azinger's Ryder Cup leadership has been successful. The U.S. Team won Samuel Ryder's Cup by a final margin of five points...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 530 reads 6 comments
Paul Azinger and Nick Faldo, Can't We All Just Get Along?

The Ryder Cup begins tomorrow at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. Valhalla was designed by Jack Nicklaus and named for a mythological, majestic, enormous hall ruled over by the god Odin...

Written by J. Michael Morris about about 1 year ago 887 reads 16 comments

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J. Michael Morris Article Archive

Who Put This Jazz Song on Repeat?

Masters Update: Tiger Makes the Cut

Masters Update: Tiger Woods Ties His Best Opening Round Ever at Augusta

Tiger Woods Wins the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Again

PGA Tour Embarks On a New Marketing Journey

Tiger Woods' Professional Expectations are Very...Low?

Alex Rodriguez Admits Nothing We Didn't Already Know

Wildly Speculative Utah Jazz Rumor From Dubious Sources: CONFIRMED

A Farewell to Arms (Flying in the Air Wildly) in the NBA

The BCS Controversy Can Be Placed Squarely on the SEC's Shoulders

Las Vegas Bowl: 22 Mormon Boys Expose Themselves in Las Vegas

Could Jazz Be for Sale? Utah Rumor Mill in Full Production

BCS: Just Let the Fat Kid Play—What Are You Afraid of?

Utah Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan: Tragic Protagonist

Avella High Football Embodies "Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win"

Hope For Change Of The 2009 PGA Tour Sponsorships

For Non-BCS Football Teams Winning Is Not Enough

When Will Dana White Swoop In to Pick the Carcass of Elite XC?

Pre-Season College Football Hype Does Actually Matter

One Last Chance for Chicago Cubs

Utah-Oregon State: Thursday Night Lights for Interesting Matchup

The FedEx Cup: The Worst $10 Million Ever Spent

Does the BCS Need a Bailout After the Collapse of USC?

Captain Azinger and the U.S. Ryder Cup Team "Flip the Script" on the Euros

Paul Azinger and Nick Faldo, Can't We All Just Get Along?

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