Posts by Shane Ryan

• May 9, 2013

  Golf’s Most Powerful: May Edition!

  The Players Championship starts today, which means it’s time to unveil the Sport of Golf Power Rankings, a new feature for The Triangle. If you’re new to the game, the Players Championship is often called “the fifth major,” and tends to draw one of the strongest fields of the year. The island green on no. […]

• May 7, 2013

  Life-Changer: How a Few Bad Greens Made Derek Ernst’s Career

  One of the reasons I’ve learned to love the ordinary, mundane events on the PGA Tour — after spending the bulk of my life focused solely on the big ones — is how the drama of a single Sunday can permanently change a person’s life. We’re used to thinking of golfers as privileged blue bloods, […]

• May 3, 2013

  MLB Weekend Top 10: Loving Yu Is Easy

  Here we are, another Friday. Another week without accomplishing our dreams. Unless your dream is watching baseball games on May 3–5, 2013, in which case I am your guardian angel, lifting you by the underarms and carrying you to self-actualization. Here are the top 10 things happening this weekend in American stickball.

• April 29, 2013

  THAT Is How You Win Your First PGA Event, Billy Horschel

  Let’s set the scene: Billy Horschel is 26 years old and has never won on the PGA Tour. He’s been to qualifying school four times, passed the test three times, but is at that stage of his career when he’s at risk of becoming the equivalent of a career Triple-A baseball player. He’s starting to […]

• April 26, 2013

  The MLB Weekend Top 10: Fact or Fiction Edition

  You all know me as a teller of truths, and I won’t let you down now: This is a weird weekend, and it was hard to find 10 truly compelling story lines. Instead, for this weekend only, I’ve picked out the top five story lines and mixed them in with five story lines of pure […]

• April 25, 2013

  50 Rejected Names for the College Football Playoff

  The news came out Tuesday that college football’s new four-team playoff system will be called “College Football Playoff.” It’s a safe choice for the BCS, which decided to play it simple. But the decision came at the end of a lengthy debate, and this morning Grantland received a sheet of paper from a BCS source […]

• April 23, 2013

  The Baseball Blackout in North Carolina Continues

  On Friday, April 12, the Yankees beat the Orioles, 5-2. New York and Baltimore play each other 19 times this year, and that was the first matchup of the season. In what has become a frustrating annual tradition, it was also my first experience in 2013 with the North Carolina baseball blackout. I live in […]

• April 19, 2013

  The MLB Weekend Top 10: A Brave(s) New Season

  We’re back for 2013, and my only hope is that this is the year we finally have a quadruple play. It’s been so long. And with that wish in our hearts, here are the top 10 stories/players/matchups heading into the weekend. 10. The Weird Constant Interleague Series (LAD-BAL) Now that the Astros have betrayed and […]

• April 18, 2013

  Back to School: Marcus Smart’s Incredible Decision

  I am aware of how much money I am giving up. I am aware of that. — Marcus Smart That was my favorite quote from Wednesday’s Oklahoma State press conference, in which the freshman point guard, along with teammates Markel Brown and Le’Bryan Nash, announced that he would be returning to the Cowboys next season. […]

• April 15, 2013

  The Masters Retro Diary

  Tiger’s drop. Scott’s win. Day’s disaster. Augusta’s rain. And El Pato!

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