LITTLE ROCK — You like Rice-filled burritos?
Maybe NFL Films should mike up the Houston Texans’ J.J. Watt more often.
The 6-5 defensive lineman won a war of words with the Baltimore Ravens’ Ray Rice during Sunday’s 43-13 blowout by the Texans, telling the 5-8 running back, “I’ve eaten burritos bigger than you.”
The clip, in which it appeared even one of the Ravens’ linemen smiled at the barb, was featured on Monday Night Football’s halftime segment “Sound FX.” European style
John Daly has a chance to be fully exempt and set his own schedule next year for the first time since 2006.
Just not on the PGA Tour.
The former Arkansas Razorback from Dardanelle is instead eyeing the European Tour, where he is No. 88 on the money list and will be playing this weekin Shanghai in the BMW Masters, which has a $7 million purse and no cut. The top 118 on the money list at the end of the season get a card.
“If I get a card, I can pick and play everything over there,” Daly said. “China has no cut, and if I can play halfway decent, I should lock it up. That was my whole goal, to get a European Tour card. I have no goals here because I don’t get in anything. Everyone turned me down on the West Coast.”
Daly, who hasn’t had a PGATour card in six years and has relied on sponsor exemptions, isn’t even sure if he’d be willing to turn down Europe for a chance to compete for a PGA Tour card.
“I don’t want to say ‘Yes’ because it depends on if I’m real close in Europe to the Race to Dubai. That’s big money, too,” he said. “But if you play in this, four tournaments, and you miss three cuts and win the last one, you’re in. So you get four chances to get a card. I think it’s a great idea.
And they’re all $1 million purses, right? I’d have to give that a shot.”
The honeymooners
The San Francisco Giants making the World Series, and facing the Detroit Tigers, might not be the best thing for a couple of Florida newlyweds.
Jack McKenna, a lifelong Giants fan, and his wife, a Tigers fan, are spending their honeymoon in San Francisco, but neither thought their plans could include a World Series game.
“The timing was just great,” Jack McKenna said.
His wife, Sharon, seems to understand that the honeymoon could be over, though, if they get tickets to one of the two games and she loudly roots for Detroit.
“That’s not a good way to start a marriage,” she said.
Going postal
“In a 1,000-page report, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Lance Armstrong’s U.S. Postal Service team ran a ‘sophisticated, professionalized and successful’ doping program,’ ” writes Brad Dickson of the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald. “This was the first time ‘U.S. Postal Service’ and ‘sophisticated, professionalized and successful’ have been used in the same sentence.”Quote of the day “I think you saw ... what
everybody anticipated from Day 1 of the season against Kentucky. Unfortunately, we’re just now hitting it.” Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson on the team’s recent performance
Sports, Pages 24 on 10/24/2012