ARTICLE FROM jacksonville.com (Full story click here)

Something is driving me CRAZY as a sports fan. First of all I want to keep it real, the ONLY time I watch pro golf is when Tiger Woods is winning or near the lead. For MANY of us that is the case. Why watch golf if Tiger is not winning?

Because most of the time watching golf is like watching a nine inning baseball game…..BORING AND SLOW. Not to much excitement. I cannot remember watching a baseball game for nine innings. Just cannot do it. Baseball needs to do something to make the game faster. I will be writing my thoughts on this issue soon here on SIC.

But readers why do fans have to be quiet before a player takes his swing on the PGA tour? This is driving me crazy because in my opinion fans should be able to yell and cheer while a player takes his swing.

Instead players and the PGA wants fans to stand like statues and not say A WORD. And not only that, folks whose jobs is to take pictures for their newspapers or websites CANNOT take a pic while a player is getting ready to swing. WHY? This just does not mke sense. Unreal Recently Phil Mickleson complained about to many people snapping pics while he is getting ready to swing!! GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK!! This is stupid!! And the sports media (ie JT The Brick and others) treated Phil with kid’s gloves on this issue too. These PGA players are spoiled rich brats. Most of them born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Sorry to say what Phil complained about is how most players feel. Be quiet during our swings. The hell with that!!

I am a tremendous Tiger Woods fan, but he wants total silence before he swings. Truth be told, he complains about silence more than Phil. This also is a fact.

Some say it is the “tradition” of the golf game as to why fans have to be quiet before a player swings. Well I say THE HELL WITH TRADITION!! Fans should be able to cheer like hell on the golf course at all times. Just like while LeBron James or Kobe Bryant are at the foul line getting ready to shoot or when Payton Manning is behind the center getting ready to take a snap. Or when A-Rod is walking up to the plate here in Seattle where fans don’t care for him at all for leaving the Mariners. Fans should be able to cheer their ass off in PGA events at all times!!

The hell with dudes with their hands up asking for quiet while a player is getting ready to swing!! The hell with a person not being able to take a pic before Tiger or Phil or Ernie or Bubba etc takes their swings! This is 2012, not 1954.

The PGA should realize this and get with the changing times. Gordon Curvey

ARTICLE FROM espn.com (Full story click here)

Fans of our dearly departed Seattle Sonics held a well attended rally in downtown Seattle the other day and it made me very very happy as a fan who really really misses our NBA team. For thousands of Sonic fans it was a chance to once again put on their Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp jerseys and tell the world that we want the NBA to return to our city.

I did not make it to the rally because I was busy producing the next “Music Inner City TV” program but I listened to it on sports radio 710 ESPN. And the sound of the crowd cheering for the return of the Sonics made me very happy. Because seeing the OKC Thunder in the NBA Finals (the team that left Seattle after 41 years) has made me very depressed as a sports fan. Anyone who is a Sonic fan is hurt to see our former team in the freakin Finals.

The rally was attended by former Sonic stars and the man who is putting up millions of dollars to help build a top of the line state of the art arena here in Seattle, Chris Hansen. The man is putting up huge dollars to bring a NBA back to Seattle because he misses the Sonics and the NBA like I do and like all Sonics fans do.

We will keep you updated right here on “Sports Inner City Online” on the return of the NBA to Seattle and the return of the Seattle Sonics. Gordon Curvey

ARTICLE FROM yahoosports.com (Click here for full story)

Basketball is a passion for me. I just love the sport. I can watch a high school game, college game, NBA game and even a game from overseas. I am constantly watching NBA-TV all year long keeping up with the NBA.

When our Seattle Sonics left town in 2008 it was like a family member died. I covered the Sonics for my media for 15 years. The Sonics allowed me to go to shootarounds in the morning before the game at night. I interviewed some of the biggest stars in basketball over the years like Phil Jackson, Shaq, Ishiah Thomas, Dirk, C-Webb,  Barkley, Alonzo Morning and many many more including MJ!

So for more than four years their has been no shootarounds at the Key here in Seattle. I miss that very very much. I can’t listen to the voice of the Sonics Kevin Calabro saying “”He’s on the magic carpet!’ after a tremendous dunk by a Sonic player. No more rally in alley before a playoff game. I miss our Seattle Sonics!

When the owner of the Sonics Mr. Starbucks Howard Schultz sold our team to Clay Bennett I said no big deal because Bennett told us the team will stay in Seattle while holding up a Sonics jersey. Well as we know HE LIED!!!!!!!!! And he moved our Sonics to a dust town Oklahoma City. And all we have now are memories of our Sonics. It hurts readers!

Besides the Thunder, the only other exciting thing to do in OKC is watching  Charlie paint his house on Oakmount St. and OKC residents can gather to watch the paint dry!! Or watching a tumbleweed roll down a street and old Martha will say to her husband “Hey dear that is the biggest darn tumbleweed I have ever seen in town honey.!!” Now that’s excitement!!

So as we know led by Kevin Durant, the Thunder and the Heat are in the NBA Finals and we in Seattle just do not know how to handle it. Of course we can sit and think how it would be if the team was still in Seattle and WE are in the Finals.

But of course that is not going on so myself as a NBA fan is going to hope LeBron and D-Wade sweeps by the Thunder BUT readers that will not happen. Might of fact their is a good chance that the OKC Thunder will because the new NBA champs. As a sports fan here in Seattle watching the Thunder fans going crazy after winning a NBA title it will be like someone hitting me in the head with a freakin hammer. IT WILL HURT BIG TIME!

Finally, I have to give a shout out to the fans of OKC. The really support their team. Just like Sac-town and P-Town, it is the only pro team in town. I am not hating on the OKC fans. I will always hate against Howard Schultz for selling the team to Bennett and will always hate Bennett for LYING to us Sonic fans.  So as I end  I am sure all Sonics fans will join me in saying GO HEAT!!!!!! Gordon Curvey

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ARTICLE FROM golf.com (Full story click here)

As a sports fan today was a happy day because I watched Tiger Woods be Tiger Woods again and win the Memorial event ran by the great “Golden Bear” Jack Nicklaus. The event was held in Dublin, Ohio.

Woods started the day four down but you could tell he was going to win the event.  With Jack watching on I just knew Tiger was going to come from behind and win. And that is what happened. Cats started to tell that Tiger was on the prowl and they played afraid of him just like a few years ago.

At age 36, Woods is tied with “The Golden Bear” with 73 wins on the PGA tour for second all-time. Sam Snead is leading with 84 wins. Nicklaus was 46 win he on his 73rd event.

So Tiger of course is going to pass Jack and maybe Sam Snead also. But will he catch up with with Jack with 18 grand slam wins? We will see. But it looks like Tiger is back and golf fans as well as ABC and CBS and NBC and ESPN should be happy. Because when Tiger is winning or near the lead up goes the ratings! That is real.   Gordon Curvey