Photo credit: Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Sports

Photo credit: Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Sports

That kid, is going to have some female friends. Also, a symbolic changing of the guard from Nike to Under Armour took place, as Spieth supplanted Tiger – Nike – in wonderkid lore. And you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think I’m buying the hell out of this belt from Golfsmith:

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#blindconsumerism

Let’s hit it!

 

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The roundup:

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That there is the new, updated South Philly Dog and the New England Dog. Full review coming later, but spoiler: FANFUCKINGTASTIC. Service? Of course not so good.

Phillies billionaire co-owner John S. Middleton is in a legal battle with his sister. From Philly.com:

John S. Middleton, the billionaire part-owner of the Phillies, is battling in court with a younger sister over a 2003 deal in which he bought her and others out of the family’s conglomerate for about $200 million and then sold part of the firm four years later for $2.9 billion, according to documents filed in Montgomery County Orphan’s Court last week.

The sister, Anna K. Nupson, has yet to make specific claims of wrongdoing in court. But she said in a court document last month that she may bring “substantive claims that pertain to possible self-dealing” by her brother.

“What it boils down to is that [Nupson] has been hinting around that [her brother] bought those shares at too cheap a price,” Hussey said. “Basically, she seems to say that he was on both sides of the transaction.”

I wonder how POWERS feels about all this?

Sam Donnellon speculates that Craig Berube is about to lose his job:

Flyers general manager Ron Hextall has told us repeatedly that he doesn’t buy this, that he believes he had constructed a playoff-worthy team, albeit not an “elite” one. And so, sometime between the next few hours or next few weeks, he will decide how much of what transpired traced to a miscalculation on his part and how much falls on the coach he inherited.

You see where this is going, don’t you?

For Berube, not in a good direction.

He’s probably right. But I’m not so sure this is Berube’s fault. The Flyers don’t have a second line, their defense isn’t good, and they’re still saddled with terrible contracts. I was hard on Berube when he was hired last year, but he completely turned the team around in 2013-2014, steering them to within a couple of goals of beating the Stanley Cup runner-up Rangers. There’s a long list of blame to go around, and I think Berube is somewhere around number 7 on it. Is he a good coach? It’s hard to tell.

Meanwhile, the Kings locked Darryl Sutter out of the locker room.

Howard Eskin read the headline on the NY Times’ Sixers article last week. Problem? The article was largely positive. Howard dunt reed good:

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Today in Ron Jaworski says headline-grabbing thing.

Amazon’s X-Ray feature is pretty awesome.

Stanley Cup Playoffs TV schedule. Confirming: no Flyers.

Three people have been hurt in a construction accident at the King of Prussia Mall.

Penguin delivering a baseball.

Tiger’s full of shit. Katie Nolan has balls.

A market research firm estimates Apple sold 1 million Watches in the US this weekend. One of them was me.

 

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