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stupidyellowstoneshitposts · 10 months ago

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Jamie Does Rodeo - A Crackfic

Summary: An argument with Beth and an unexpected helping hand from Jimmy leads Jamie Dutton to some very questionable decisions.

Warning: Drinking, violence (no gore though), abuse and lots of profanity. Because Beth lol.

Chapter 1: A Not-So-Empty Threat

Clink!

Ice cubes ratted and whiskey sloshed as Beth Dutton's glass hit the table. Lord knows how many shots she'd had by now.

The woman was thoroughly pissed off. She was pretty sure the ranch was completely screwed, since her brother made a terrible mistake...

...he'd misplaced the deed to the ranch.

"The fuck do you want?" Beth demanded, shooting him a death glare as he stepped into the living room.

"Just letting you know," Jamie Dutton shot back passive-aggressively, smirking as he adjusted his suit and tie. "I was able to find the deed to the ranch, so your attempts at insulting me all week have been pointless."

"Oh, it's never pointless," She warned him, her tone lowering into a hiss. "You lost the deed to the fucking ranch...Everything we've been fighting for."

Jamie was unfazed. "I did not lose it, I borrowed it to back up our case against the developers trying to build an airport over our land, left it in my office drawer, forgot I put it there, and found it."

He pulled out the deed and shook it a few times, as if taunting her with it.

"Thank you for the very, uh, productive conversation." He then said sarcastically, and walked out the door.

Jamie had more important matters to attend to--namely, finding John, and letting him know the deed had been found. Since John wasn't at the lodge, the lawyer decided to check the Bunkhouse instead; maybe John had gone there, to speak with the cowboys.

However, just as he was walking toward the Bunkhouse entrance, Beth caught up to him, grabbing his shoulder and whipping him around to face her. Jamie jumped.

"You think you're gonna get away with this, don't you?" Beth breathed, threateningly locking eyes with him.

Jamie swallowed.

"Beth-" He hesitated, voice trembling. "I found it."

"Yeah?" She quietly mocked him. "You think that's gonna make it all better? You think daddy's just gonna forgive you, because you found it, you piece of shit? You lost it. The family's entire legacy was in your hands and you fucking lost it."

"B-Beth-"

Before Jamie could respond, his sister pressed her palm against his mouth, gagging it shut.

"I want you to listen to me, Jamie," She half-whispered as Jamie's eyes widened with terror, a sadistic smile crawling across her face. She motioned toward a clear patch of land where the cattle grazed. "Tonight, after dinner...you're gonna meet me in the field back there...and I'm gonna beat the crap out of you."

Jamie tried to back away, but Beth yanked the sleeve of his suit, forcing him in place. He could tell she was serious.

"I'm gonna beat the crap out of you...until you're lying on the floor...with every fucking bone in your body broken."

He couldn't answer. All he could do was stare back at her, heart pounding and hands trembling.

"Ya got that?" She hummed.

Jamie remained silent.

"JAMIE."

Frantically, he nodded.

After dinner.

The field.

Got it.

An agonizing few seconds later, Beth released him, sending him tumbling backwards. One more murderous stare into his soul, and she took off toward the lodge, finally leaving him alone.

"God damn it..." the lawyer hissed under his breath after a moment of hyperventilating. "AAAGHH!" In a fit of rage, he punched the nearest fence, the sting of gnarled wood cracking against his fist.

Shoving his face into his cupped hands, he began letting out an agonized groan, until suddenly, he heard someone speaking right behind him.

"Wow." The voice said, lost for words. "I've never seen anything like that. She's terrifying. Like, actually terrifying."

Jamie turned around, and there, watching from beside the Bunkhouse entrance, was Jimmy.

The lawyer shuffled his feet, a deer-in-the-headlights look on his face. "How, uh, how long have you been there?" He stammered.

"Oh, yeah, I saw everything," Jimmy smiled, seeming almost impressed by Beth's fury. "I came out here to train for the rodeo tonight, but..." he chuckled, speechless. "Guess I came at a bad time".

Instead of responding, Jamie sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, a migraine headache overcoming him.

Jimmy's cheerful grin dropped. All jokes aside, he understood Jamie's plight; he knew what it was like to be threatened. He'd never have started doing rodeo to begin with, if his former criminal partners hadn't threatened his family.

The young cowboy approached Jamie and put a hand on the his shoulder. Behind him, the chestnut horse he was planning to practice rodeo with kicked up dust, racing across the nearby riding ring. "What are you gonna do?" He asked the lawyer.

Jamie shook his head over and over again like a caged animal. "I-I don't know. I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T FUCKING KNOW!" He shouted through gritted teeth.

Jimmy was silent for a moment, gears turning in his head. He stared off into space for a few more seconds before reaching a conclusion.

"What if you come with me tonight?" Jimmy offered.

"What?"

"What if you come with me tonight?" He repeated, motioning toward the angry horse in the pen. "To the rodeo. I mean...think about it. Why do you have to be at the ranch tonight? You don't have to stick around and let Beth kick your ass." Jimmy gave Jamie's shoulder a friendly pat. "You can just come along with me and Lloyd. You can help me get ready before I enter the ring, you know? Just brush the horse, take care of the saddle, all that stuff. It'll be like an excuse to leave."

Huh.

The rodeo...

Jamie hadn't thought of that.

It all made sense...

He could ignore Beth. He could blow her off. Get away from Yellowstone entirely...

Yeah...yeah!

Fuck this!

Why not go to the rodeo?

Hadn't he done enough for this family? Hadn't he taken enough abuse from Beth?

Jamie Dutton decided it was time to do something for his own sake, and he knew what he had to do.

"Shouldn't be too difficult. It's not like I'm actually PARTICIPATING in the rodeo," he thought to himself.

Little did he know, he thought wrong.

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monkey-network · 6 years ago

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WarioWare: The Series Season 2 Episodes

52 Episodes, Season 3 Coming 20XX. Season 1*

Business is Booming: Wario’s house blows up and nobody wants to take him in except Penny... without Crygor Sr’s permission. So Penny does her best to hide the 200+ lb man from her grandfather while bots are sent out to fix the house.

WarioiraW: One of Orbulon’s pets, a gelatinous blob that can take the form of any being, escapes and takes the form of Wario. This fools everybody in the fact that the fake is friendlier than the actual one. Even Wario, who plots to take advantage of his impostor’s kindness.

Spare the Rod, Don’t Spoil the Child: 9-Volt must wait to see a movie, one 18-Volt saw at an early screening. Known to be a blabbermouth, 9V does his best to shut out 18-Volt and spoilers of any kind before the event, which puts a strain on their friendship.

Jimmy Two Shoes: Jimmy T. wants to watch a game, but his tendency to not say no gets the better of him when everyone suddenly needs him.

Cricket and the Octopus of Fortitude: Young Cricket has to take care of Master Mantis’s pet while he goes to the doctor. The octopus doesn’t take kindly to Cricket’s overprotective nature, so it tries to outwit the apprentice with some outside help.

You’re Not Funny: An anonymous joke is emailed all across DC and everyone is laughing themselves stiff... except for Ashley and Mike, the latter believing the joke wasn’t sent just for the heck of it. The two go to uncover the truth, and it may be up to the not funny Ashley to snap people back to reality.

Fronkenstein: Feeling inferior due to his size, Snag, 9V’s Fronk, goes to build a new body for itself.... using body parts from the WarioWare gang.

Taxidermy: A customer hops into Dribble and Spitz’s cab and must compress his urge to make stuffed animals out of them, while the driving duo are completely unaware of his serial reputation.

The Nunja: Kat & Ana meets Artie, a wolf ninja who’s confidence is more than her actual skill. They see that’s she’s talented in a different field, but are conflicted to tell her the truth when she truly wants to be a ninja like her family.

One Perfection: A new student arrives at Mona’s school, and is seemingly flawless in everything they do. Mona feels inadequate compared to them, until she finds out a secret insecurity about them that she wants to help them with.

Monday Night Manor Madness: It’s a rainy day and the WarioWare gang coup up at a reluctant Ashley’s house. All goes well until a haunting spirit starts to spook everyone, with even Ashley unexpectedly shuddering at the thought of encountering it. What’s the spirit’s true intentions, and how is Jimmy not afraid of ghosts?

Meet The Sellouts: One of Wario’s schemes causes massive damage and the animation budget crashes due to the medical bills. So Crygor comes up with a way to work around this while Wario spams a bunch of ads subliminal messages to hopefully make money back.

Animal House: Mona’s pets and Kat & Ana’s pets join forces to commit a supermarket heist.

Ode to the Stone: 9-Volt makes a new pal out of a rock, glue, a sharpie, and googly eyes at school. Immediately losing interest, he tosses it and it not only reaches the rest of the gang somehow, but their hearts as the lifeless friend helps them see a new perspective about themselves.

The “Hero” Gains: Lulu* feels like she lacks a special hero attack, so she goes around Diamond City to see if she can have one of her very own. But like Wario always implies, it’s what’s on the inside that counts.

Drone Alone: Doris 1, the robot Crygor rescued from Agate forest, is left to take care of the lab while the doctor and Mike go to Penny’s talent show. Time unfortunately puts Doris on an emotional journey when an hour feels like an eternity.

Sea of Green: After a successful treasure hunt, Wario is stranded in the middle of the ocean with little to eat besides a bag of edible cacti. The cacti might leave an effect on him, but it might be the big guy’s only chance of making it home.

Late Night Cruise Control: When not on the clock, Spitz hosts a talk show that gives the latest news and brought in tons of celebrities. But when ratings start to drop, will our mechanic resort to low hanging fruit to garner back an audience, or can Dribble the music pitbull pick the show up from this funk?

Full Metal Jacket: Manager Joe, Mona’s employer and friend, creates a clothing line based on the WarioWare gang and everyone is loving it. But business becomes an empire and Joe starts losing that generous side he had, leaving Mona to bring him back down to earth.

Krumpet Scouts: 18-Volt is trying to earn money for a limited edition video game cover, but is too young for a job. He tries joining a cookie selling gang, but it’s for girls only. So he asks 13-Amp to join in his place.... while dressing up as a girl to make double the money.

Pyoro Over: The creators of Pyoro are retiring and the WarioWare gang set out to give them an explosive send off celebration since it was the company’s inspiration.

Your Greatest Feeture: Cricket’s shoes wear out and the young ward is struggling to find the right pair. But is the loss of his slippers an opportunity to learn a new technique?

Two Fros on a Sofa: Jimmy T and Jimmy P encounter each other at a bus stop and luckily finds a comfortable sofa to wait. The sofa, however, is actually a prototype rocket Orbulon left behind and the two have to work together to land the couch safely.

Flavorful Fallacy: Orbulon, realizing he left his couch in the middle of the city, goes to see where it might have gone. He meets an old man, who has a prejudice against aliens, and the two start to fight over which flavor of ice cream is better.

The People v. WarioWare Inc. (Part 1): A chipper and well meaning cult leader creates a lawsuit against the WarioWare gang for their unintentionally ludicrous crimes in the city. Wario doesn’t believe there’s a case against them, but testimony and evidence suggests otherwise and even with Mona knowing the law by hand, the gang can’t find a loophole to their reckless nature.

The People v. WarioWare Inc. (Part 2): The gang is about to serve jail time for their pretty criminal deeds of the past, but Wario’s encouragement and a special hint from the audience helps them realize that while they’re guilty, scapegoating the right person can lead to a means of escape.

Bored Games: Since the trial put everyone on edge (and house arrest), Jimmy invites the gang over for game night. Wario can’t join them, and this creates a vacuum as to who is the 2nd most conniving opportunist in the group.

Scientifically Supernatural: Ashley and Penny team up to create a being of both magic and nature and get along pretty well. The project, however, starts to rampage the town and the two fight over who’s responsible, with Red as the mediator.

Double Dribble: Dribble and Spitz enter their cab into a Rocket League type derby that puts their driving and piloting skills to the test.

He’s Back, An Unfortunate Revenge Story: Wario escapes from prison and plots to get his revenge on the one who put him there. Or ones...

The “Hero” Movie: Lulu enters a home movie into a film contest and wins thanks to Wario’s meddling. So after getting persuaded into competing for state, Lulu turns to Wario and he agrees to help if she constantly pays him, resulting in the two making “Ryno Optimus II, A Sequel to the Chosen One: The Unreckoning”

Mona’s Stop: Mona finds out that her checks have been sent to the wrong address for a while and she becomes a multi-millionaire. Knowing she’s been working pretty hard already, she retires early to become the queen of Diamond City. This would be around the time Wario tries to swindle her out of her fortune, but he’s surprisingly happy for her.

Head Boppin’: Jimmy, Jamie, James, Papa, and Mama T. have switched brains somehow. Getting back to normal seems easy... if the family didn’t act and sound nearly the same.

The Lazy Day Saints: Another couch related episode? Yeah, except this time 9-Volt rebels against his mother and chore day by turning the sofa into a pirate ship with Snag, 18V, Penny, Kat, and Ana as his crew. Knowing 9-Volt won’t back down without a fight, 5-Volt and the neighborhood moms fight fire with fire, using lazyboys as their vessels.

The Ultimate Foe: Cricket faces the most horrifying challenge of his life: a slab of silly putty.

Awww... Crap, Love: Ashley falls for a demon she spawned from the Necronomicon. And while Red tries to stop the demon from unleashing hell unto town, 5-Volt and Mona try to teach the stone faced witch about love, romance, the birds an- wait she learned that already, so just the first two.

Your Opinion?: Wario posts a negative review on a movie he watched, and the city turns against him. He easily ignores them at first, until everyone becomes nastier than him and the internet comes to life to kill him.

Join us for T-Posing: Dr. Crygor accidentally sets off a gas that forces everyone to silently stand in tree position... except Wario because it’s too hard for him. So I GUESS it’s up to him to reverse this before they’re all stuck like that? Ouch.

Magic Mike ACT: 13-Amp works well with music on the mind, but a challenge has arisen in the form of a standardized test... in a soundless classroom. Desperate for a beat to work with, she looks to Mike to join her in staying cool while dealing with the work and the no nonsense teach.

Spacecataz: Does anyone know how fictional characters are able to breath in space without helmets or oxygen? Eh, doesn’t matter... cocky alien hunter Spiff Gibbous* is back to destroy Orbulon, this time the WarioWare gang is in tow. It’s Star Wargames, ya’ll!

Knitwit: Dr. Crygor takes a major interest in knitting and this makes him a laughing stock among other mad scientists. Discouraged at first, Crygor soon schools his hecklers about the ingenuity of threading and needling.

Wario Und Pantser: In a 60s style episode, Wario-Man and Dynogirl (Mona) are on the case to find the criminal who’s been pulling people’s pants down.

Flipping the L: Waluigi gets to be in this episode... and doesn’t know what to with his screen time. So what’s a reject to do besides immediately erase the show’s universe all together and come up with his own?

The Shuriken Heart of the Cards: 9-Volt wants to join Kat & Ana on their special delivery, Ana more accepting while Kat worries about him being a potential burden. However, when they get ambushed by skilled ninja.... card players, it’s 9V’s time to shine.

Stereo Street Fighter: An old foe of Master Mantis returns with a new style of fighting that towers Mantis’s more ancient techniques. Cricket, with the help of Jimmy T, try to master a new style of martial arts with the power of funk. The perfect time for Cricket to sport a rocking afro of his own.

You Have to Go: Death has come for Wario, but continuously gets sidetracked by the gang when they’ve yet to find the special treasure he buried somewhere.

Cadillacs & Yoshisaurs: I forget this is also Mario’s universe sometimes. So anyway Yoshi eggs start appearing in Diamond City and everyone’s loving them. But they’re then caught between raising pretty rowdy animals and letting a Magikoopa poach them away.

The LIVE WAHundredth Episode (Yikes, this many?): Wario is eager to celebrate the show’s special episode on stage, but somebody kidnaps the gang and leaves them in the middle of a forest, forcing everyone to work together to head back to the studio. In the meantime, Lulu and Joe are forced to entertain the audience and start to have fun with it.

Quid Pro Wario: Young puppies look to Wario for lessons on becoming con artists, with Jimmy P not taking this well.

How to Stop Worrying and Love the Cruise: 9 and 5-Volt are on a ocean liner they won in a sweepstakes and aren’t taking it well, with 5V struggling to have fun and 9V getting seasickness.

Get Nasty: Mona makes a painting everyone has mixed feelings towards it for being too obscene, so she tries to go wild with her art to get better publicity by being more shocking.

Wario’s World (Hour Long Season Finale): A fart fueled nuke sends Diamond City into a post apocalyptic setting, where a grown up Lulu leads a resistance against the Immortan Wario’s greed fueled wrath, Empresses Kat & Ana are at war with Cricket, Dribble, Spitz, and Orbulon fighting off a colossal meteor, and the only one who could possibly bring everyone together is Mike, 18 Volt (now 21 Volt), Red, and Ashley, who is dying from the putrid radiation.

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mwlihong · 3 years ago

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The 12 Groups That Could possibly Get Tremendous Bowl LVI

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The safety, which unsuccessful in direction of produce substantially worry and was gouged towards sure dashing offenses in just 2020, will eventually be much better. The quarterback, reigning novice of the 12 months Justin Herbert, is one more tale. Staley is a preceding quarterback who naturally knows the point intimately, despite the fact that his conclusion of offensive coordinator was a little bit underwhelming. Joe Lombardi, inside less than 2 several years as the Lions offensive coordinator in just 2014 and 15, was 19th and 18th within internet yards for every test, respectively. There was no greatest 10 total inside of information, and Lombardi was overlooked when 7 days 7 of that minute year. There are moving in direction of be some not possible things of Anthony Lynns tenure with the Chargers in direction of substitute. For instance, the Chargers were being 8th inside experiencing stress ultimate 12 months because of in direction of a porous offensive line .

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fromtheringapron · 8 years ago

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WWE Hell in a Cell 2014

Date: October 26, 2014

Location: American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas

Attendance: 15,303

Commentary: Michael Cole, John “Bradshaw Layfield, and Jerry Lawler.

Results:

1. Two-out-of-Three Falls Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship: Dolph Ziggler (champion) defeated Cesaro in two straight falls.

2. Nikki Bella defeated Brie Bella. Per stipulation, Brie became Nikki’s personal assistant for the next 30 days.

3. WWE Tag Team Championship Match: Goldust and Stardust (champions) defeated the Usos (Jimmy & Jey).

4. Hell in a Cell Match: John Cena defeated Randy Orton. Per stipulation, Cena became the number-one contender for the WWE Championship.

5. WWE United States Championship Match: Sheamus (champion) defeated the Miz w/Damien Mizdow.

6. Rusev w/Lana defeated the Big Show.

7. WWE Divas Championship Match: A.J. Lee (champion) defeated Paige w/Alicia Fox.

8. Hell in a Cell Match: Seth Rollins w/ Joey Mercury & Jamie Noble defeated Dean Ambrose.

Analysis

Hell in a Cell has unsurprisingly been watered down as a match concept since WWE reverted back to TV-PG in 2008. What is surprising, however, is them creating an entire pay-per-view event around it after the fact. Hell in a Cell is meant to be to far more visceral than your average steel cage match, but the blood and brutality is now replaced by a rubbery sheen, leaving its overall effect dulled. In the case of the 2014 edition of the event, that same dullness permeates throughout the entire show.

The two actual Hell in a Cell matches on this show further speak to WWE’s softening of the concept. Cena/Orton is easily the worse of the two, contributing absolutely nothing new to the table. Not helping matters is how the show builds up the rivalry between them as legendary when, in fact, it’s one of the least dynamic ever. Rivalries in wrestling work when the competitors are polar opposites. Cena and Orton may have two different characters, but they were both carefully assembled in WWE’s developmental system and shipped to the main roster in a package labeled “Future Star⏤Please Be Fragile”. Even in hell’s structure, their rivalry is too manufactured to catch fire.

Ambrose/Rollins tries to offer something unique, and Bray Wyatt’s interference feels like a throwback to Kane’s debut in the first Hell in the Cell match in 1997. Even then, there’s a sense it could’ve been far grittier, especially since it’s such a personal feud. The rest of the show lacks energy. The Dallas crowd doesn’t seem too jazzed for much of anything on this evening. But it’s not so much the fault of the performers as it is the entire presentation.

The show is coated in a marketing glaze where every segment feels like a sales pitch. There are shoutouts to Twitter, product placement for Mountain Dew, and since the WWE Network launched earlier in the year, calls for the viewing audience to spend some extra cash on a subscription. Modern WWE loves to associate itself with brands, and wants us to know they’re associated with brands too. But in those efforts, they lose their ability to tell engaging stories inside the ring, and ultimately leave their audience disinterested. The end result isn’t a bad show, but one that fails to leave any sort of meaningful impact.

My Random Notes

One thing I miss about the Hell in the Cell in its earliest years is how they would build it up as a legit torture chamber that would change the lives of its competitors forever, as if it were the bathroom in Saw well before that movie’s release. Now having an annual pay-per-view event surrounding the concept not only make it seem less like a spectacle, but also takes away its sadistic aura that would make it a slightly terrifying watch.

Oh my god, I totally forgot about the Bella vs. Bella feud, a storyline so awful WWE had good sense to drop it shortly after this show. However, I will say it makes me yearn for that special time in wrestling history where you could watch an abysmal segment on Raw and know it would be featured on The Soup within a week, like this Emmy-winning piece of television.

With that said, people who hate on Brie Bella’s theme music are not friends of mine.

Fuck them for using Warrior’s last words spoken on television to sell the WWE Network. I have no doubt WWE and Warrior were probably looking to get the most money out of each other if their business relationship continued, but using the guy’s final televised moments just to sell a product is pretty grimy.

Also, fuck them for shitting all over the people who pay a hefty price to watch a wrestling show on pay-per-view as if the WWE Network model is accessible for everyone and they don’t have an international audience where it’s not available (the United Kingdom, for example, wouldn’t get access to the Network until a few months after this). Seriously, take your $9.99 shit and go home.

On Damien Mizdow: The character is just starting to catch fire with the audience at this point. Deservedly so, although I never once thought such a character would be enough to launch anyone into stardom. It’s funny how the dialogue around it has changed in a few short years. It used to be a testament to the potential of Damien Sandow but, given how his career has played out ever since, now it just sits as his finest moment.

What the hell did Ambrose say he would do to Rollins? Turn him into oatmeal?

I also totally forgot about the adorable duo of Jamie Noble and Joey Mercury as the Authority’s security. They’re just so cute to watch as they bumble around in their suits and take whatever ridiculous order is given to them. There is something innately relatable about their characters that I’m pretty sure isn’t intended.

#wwe #hell in a cell

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FEATURE: Africans with a point to prove as Premier League returns

The title race may be a foregone conclusion as the English Premier League returns following the coronavirus suspension, but Africa's stars in the top flight still have a lot to play for.

Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are firmly on course to claim the first major domestic league title of their careers, with Liverpool 25 points clear of Manchester City with nine rounds of matches to play. But they are both acutely aware of how their personal goalscoring returns shape their standing and their legacy, with Mane acknowledging his frustration earlier in the season when Salah didn't play him in for a shot on goal, and instead took the chance himself.

The Golden Boot they shared with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang last season remains in view for both Liverpool forwards -- Salah is three goals behind Jamie Vardy (19), with Mane five behind the Leicester City man -- and the duo will surely be aware of how their role in the Reds' title triumph will shape the African Footballer of the Year voting.

With no international tournament this year, they'll both likely be in the running for the Ballon d'Or again, not to mention the PFA awards, while Salah -- top scorer in each of the past two seasons -- can equal the record held by Jimmy Greaves, Alan Shearer, and Thierry Henry if he wins a third consecutive Golden Boot.

Aubameyang is another player gunning for the Golden Boot, with 17 goals to date this season, but the Arsenal striker's future has been the subject of increasingly intense speculation during lockdown.

He is entering the final year of his contract and recently identified his next contract decision as "the most important" of his career, but, with no offer yet forthcoming from Arsenal, it remains to be seen whether he will see out the final year of his current deal or seek pastures new.

Chelsea are reportedly keen on his services, while there will surely be interest from Europe's biggest clubs if such an unswervingly consistent goalscorer becomes available.

Barring an FA Cup success this season, it's hard to see how Auba would end his time in North London with a major honour so a second Golden Boot to go with last year's award would represent an acceptable parting gift.

Other African players such as Oumar Niasse, Jordon Ibe and Nampalys Mendy are also out of contract this summer and will be keen to boost their appeal during the remaining fixtures.

It's not just the soon-to-be free agents who will be looking to attract admirers during the final months of the campaign, with other African stars linked with moves to some of Europe's elite, and don't be surprised if some of the continent's biggest names switch clubs.

Two players who have been the subject of intense transfer speculation during lockdown are Wolverhampton Wanderers wideman Adama Traore -- reportedly attracting interest from Liverpool -- and Leicester City's Wilfred Ndidi, a mooted target for Manchester United. Will either of these two do enough during the remaining fixtures to convince their would-be suitors that they are worth a summer outlay?

Then there's Wilfried Zaha, who certainly appears overdue another shot at life at a major club, having struggled to leave an impression at Manchester United earlier in his career.

He was wanted by Unai Emery at Arsenal last summer -- when his stock was much higher than it is now -- but the Gunners ultimately opted to move for Nicolas Pepe of Lille.

Zaha was left to face up to another season at Crystal Palace, and, after acknowledging that, earlier in the campaign, his head wasn't quite where it should be; he'll be desperate to end the season in style.

Paris Saint-Germain are the latest continental giant to be linked with a move for the Ivory Coast wideman.

The aforementioned Pepe is one player who will be desperate to regain his pre-lockdown form when action resumes this week.

The wideman initially struggled to demonstrate he would be worth the Gunners' hefty £72 million spend during the first months of the season when his excellence was evident only in flashes and direct contributions were limited.

However, having had a hand in just four goals between late October and mid-February, he appeared to hit a purple patch in the 4-0 demolition of Newcastle United, when he contributed two assists and scored during a dazzling display.

He followed that with the match-winning assist in the 3-2 victory over Everton, and was outstanding in the UEFA Europa League defeat by Olympiakos, in which he completed a remarkable 12 dribbles.

If he can maintain that form through the final weeks of the season, then he may convince Arsenal fans that he's the man around whom Mikel Arteta's team must be built next season.

While Pepe arrived at Arsenal to much fanfare, academy product Alex Iwobi was cut loose in a £34 million move to Everton.

The fee appeared considerable at the time, and Iwobi has done little to dispel the suggestion that he was flattered by the elevated company in North London earlier in his career.

No one doubts Iwobi's workrate, but his output -- one goal and zero assists in 18 appearances -- leaves much to be desired and he is in danger of becoming the transfer flop of the season.

In Arsenal's 3-2 victory in February, it was telling that, while Pepe was lighting up the Emirates, Iwobi was being hauled off after an anonymous 60-minute display.

Everton as a club have little to play for this term, but Iwobi's reputation is most certainly on the line.

Manchester United defender Eric Bailly is one player who may stand to benefit from the delay in ending the season.

The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations winner has had a disastrous time with injuries in recent seasons, having made a strong initial impression under Jose Mourinho after signing for the Red Devils.

However, rather than opt to move the defender on, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer appears open to giving the West African the chance to prove himself during the final months of the campaign.

Bailly will have his work cut out trying to break the Victor Lindelof-Harry Maguire partnership, but he is again fit for selection and, with games set to come thick and fast, has the opportunity to repay Solskjaer's faith for offering him a contract extension in January.

For some of the division's younger stars or new arrivals, the resumption of action represents an opportunity either to sustain the momentum of the pre-Covid-19 campaign or to demonstrate they've taken advantage of the suspension.

Mbwana Samatta joined Aston Villa from Genk in an £8.5 million deal in January, with Dean Smith hoping the powerful frontman could solve the Villains' lack of goal threat.

The Tanzania instranation has scored once in the Premier League and netted in the League Cup final, but it was always going to be a big ask to arrive in the league and make an instant impact, particularly considering he was playing in the Democratic Republic of Congo as recently as 2016.

The three-month suspension may, however, have allowed Samatta to adapt better to living in England, gain more familiarity with his teammates, and observe the Ramadan fast without having to juggle competitive football at the same time.

West Ham United's Sebsatian Haller is another who may have benefited from the pause before returning to the relegation battle.

For youngsters, Bukayo Saka and Eddie Nketiah of Arsenal, and Japhet Tanganga at Tottenham Hotspur, the halt in activity came in the midst of their breakout season at this level, and all three will be hoping to pick up where they left off in March.

Source: africa.espn.com

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honeycreekgcc · 8 years ago

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Monday Scramble: Something old, something new

Busy week in golf: Tiger has successful back surgery, Rory gets married, Kevin Chappell gets 1st win, to name a few..

With all due respect to the fine folks in San Antonio, the biggest golf news of the week came on Thursday and it did not involve Kevin Chappell.

Tiger Woods has once again gone under the knife, this time for what seems like a much more significant procedure than his previous three surgeries since 2014. An Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion brings with it plenty of medical jargon, but it prompts a single question: What now?

By lying down on the operating table, Woods basically chalked up 2017 as his second straight lost season. When he next hits the course, he’ll either be 42 years old or close to it, and essentially two-plus years removed from being competitive on the PGA Tour.

That assumes, of course, that there will be a next time. Woods’ news release was somber enough, but the consistent harping by him and his agent that the procedure addressed “quality of life” concerns indicates that playing competitive golf probably isn’t his top priority right now.

It’s another sad chapter in a book that hasn’t had many highlights since the summer of 2013.

1. News of Woods’ surgery made his appearance earlier in the week in Missouri to announce a new course he’s building – and his participation in a two-swing PR stunt – all the more surprising.

Woods sat next to Johnny Morris, owner of Bass Pro Shops, for nearly an hour answering questions about his latest project, Payne’s Valley, which is expected to open in 2019. He then popped out of his chair and hit a pair of wedges in a “contest” with one of Morris’ young relatives.

The stunt was lighthearted, but it did evoke awkward flashbacks to last year’s Quicken Loans National media day once Woods rinsed his first shot. The second one, though, safely found the green.

But given the fact that Woods knew at the time that he was going under the knife the following day, it’s amazing he even picked up a club.

2. While Woods’ surgery got the brunt of the attention by week’s end, his plans for a new course in Missouri show promise.

Woods spoke at length about his vision as an architect, and it’s a well-crafted one even with only a handful of courses under his belt. He favors playability, creativity around the greens, manageable rough and a layout that keeps lost ball searches to a minimum.

Woods has hit on all those notes in a big way at Bluejack National outside Houston, which I can attest is a treat. If his first public project turns out anything close to that, folks will be flocking to the Ozarks in a few short years.

3. Unfortunately for Woods, his fashion sense hasn’t come along quite as quickly as his design acumen, as evidenced by Tuesday’s ensemble:

Granted, I am far from a fashionista. But the Twittersphere let Woods have it for his…questionable pants selection. But after news of his surgery surfaced later in the week, those same social media accounts were suddenly left to wonder when we’ll even see Woods again.

4. Hats off to Chappell, who finally managed to work his way into the winner’s circle at the Valero Texas Open.

Chappell’s stock has been on the rise for quite some time, as he notably racked up four runner-up finishes last season, including a playoff loss at the Tour Championship. But the titles proved elusive until Sunday, when he won just as all players envision it: by sinking a putt on the 72nd hole. He also added a nice, primal scream for good measure.

“Did you see that?” Chappell wrote on Instagram. “The monkey jumping off my back.”

Chappell played his way onto the Ryder Cup bubble last year, a considerable feat given his lack of hardware. But you should expect that he’ll make his red, white and blue debut this fall on Steve Stricker’s Presidents Cup squad.

5. One of the best aspects Chappell’s breakthrough win? His crunch-time interactions with caddie Joe Greiner.

The two had lengthy consultations over club choice and strategy throughout the final round, many of which were captured by the CBS audio team. It provided welcome insight into the mind of a player trying to close out his first win, as well as that of the man hoping to guide him to victory.

The discussion went all the way up until the final hole, when Greiner was vocal about how to plot Chappell’s par-5 layup options and offered some last-minute swing thoughts. Watching them celebrate the win a few minutes later, it was clearly a team victory.

6. With Chappell’s victory, the highest-ranked American without a PGA Tour win is now … Daniel Summerhays.

Summerhays is ranked No. 88 in the world and has been playing the Tour regularly since 2011. During that time he has compiled a pair of runner-ups and a solo third at last year’s PGA Championship that got him into the Masters.

Next on the list would be No. 92 Roberto Castro and No. 97 Jamie Lovemark, who lost playoffs last year at the Wells Fargo Championship and Zurich Classic, respectively.

7. Brooks Koepka may not have gotten the win in San Antonio, but he’s clearly on the rise.

Koepka struggled out of the gates in 2017, missing four out of his first six cuts without registering a top-40 result. But he won his group at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, finished T-11 at the Masters and nearly chased down Chappell in Texas.

Koepka is coming off a banner season that included his Ryder Cup debut, and he has one of the highest ceilings on Tour. He also has an understandable attitude about this week’s Zurich Classic, where he’ll pair with his brother Chase, who will make his PGA Tour debut.

“It could be interesting,” Koepka said Sunday. “We could kill each other on the second hole, or it could be awesome.”

8. Speaking of Zurich, the NOLA event gets a makeover this year with a new team format that has attracted an unusually strong field to TPC Louisiana. While the big names will get the early attention, here are a few under-the-radar duos worth the price of admission:

Daniel Berger/Thomas Pieters

Patrick Reed/Patrick Cantlay

Branden Grace/Louis Oosthuizen

Kevin Kisner/Scott Brown

Justin Thomas/Bud Cauley

Conversely, here are a few head-scratching combinations – one of which surely will wind up on the leaderboard come Sunday:

Spencer Levin/Rocco Mediate

Bryson DeChambeau/Rory Sabbatini

Jamie Lovemark/Luke Donald

Kyle Reifers/Andrew Johnston

Whee Kim/Greg Owen

9. Ian Poulter lost his full-time PGA Tour status when he missed the cut at Valero in the last start of his medical extension. But that doesn’t mean the Englishman is heading for the unemployment line.

Poulter has become a polarizing figure in recent years, leading some to bask in the schadenfreude of a former Ryder Cup assassin losing his card by 30 grand. But Poulter still has conditional status, both based on his previous tournament wins and his FedEx Cup standing, and he’s eligible to accept sponsor invites.

Poulter will likely be able to get several starts this summer off those bona fides, beginning this week at Zurich when he teams up with Geoff Ogilvy.

The real test will come in September, when he may have to head to Web.com Tour Finals to regain his card. It’s a scenario he can avoid only by turning his tepid game around in a hurry.

10. Jimmy Walker finally has a cause for the severe fatigue he has felt for months, but unfortunately it’s no easy fix.

The PGA champ revealed this week that he has been diagnosed with Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that comes from tick bites and can have chronic symptoms that are often hard to treat. Walker originally thought he had mono, but received his Lyme test results on the eve of the Masters.

While he refused to chalk up any bad play to his diagnosis, the news does shed some light on Walker’s sluggish performance in the wake of his triumph at Baltusrol. But he has turned things around recently, with five top-25s in his last seven starts, and hopefully is now on the road to recovery.

Get well, Jimmy.

It’s never good when you have to dodge golf balls at the breakfast table.

News broke over the weekend that McCain Foods had started a massive voluntary recall for frozen hash browns that “may be contaminated with extraneous golf ball materials.”

At this point no one has been hurt, which is always good. But we might need to get a Grill Room correspondent on the case to figure out how golf balls end up mixed with breakfast potatoes.

Is the farm next door to a driving range? Did the workers fine-tune their short games while on break? How big was the first “golf ball material” that sparked the recall? Questions abound.

Happy Birthday, We Got You A Caddie: Lydia Ko turned 20 Monday, putting a cap on her teen years that included 14 LPGA wins and two majors. She also announced the hiring of Pete Godfrey as her caddie, the 10th looper she has used since turning pro. They’ll debut together this week in Texas, where a little consistency on the bag could go a long way for the birthday girl.

Rocky Start: Curtis Luck. The top-ranked amateur turned pro last week and signed with Callaway, only to bogey his first three holes and ultimately miss the cut by a shot. No one said it’d be easy, but Luck will have plenty more opportunities – starting with the Dean & DeLuca Invitational next month.

Still Rolling: Bernd Wiesberger. The Austrian has played some great golf with little fanfare in recent months, but he finally broke through to win the Shenzhen International in a playoff over Tommy Fleetwood. Wiesberger now has eight (!) top-5 finishes since his last worldwide missed cut at the PGA Championship in July.

Still Searching: Bubba Watson. Watson made his annual pilgrimage to China for the Shenzhen event, and while he held the early lead, he couldn’t string four rounds together and ultimately tied for 26th. It continues to be a struggle for the two-time Masters champ, who hasn’t registered a top-10 finish in a full-field, stroke-play event in over a year.

Off The Market: Rory McIlroy, who tied the knot with Erica Stoll over the weekend in Ireland. The ceremony was spread across multiple days, held at an Irish castle and reportedly featured performances from Stevie Wonder and Ed Sheeran. Proof, once again, that it’s good to be Rory.

Job Well Done: McIlroy’s team. It’s hard in this day and age to keep anything truly private, but Team McIlroy managed to keep the wedding at Ashford Castle entirely under wraps, with strict security and few information leaks. Even celebrities are entitled to a little privacy on their big day should they so choose, and it’s nice to see that McIlroy got it.

El Campeon: Sergio Garcia, who put his green jacket on display Sunday when he kicked off the soccer match between Real Madrid and Barcelona. As a Madrid fan, Garcia likely wasn’t pleased by Lionel Messi’s last-second goal to give Barca the win.

It’s the Arrow, Not the Indian: Patrick Reed. On the eve of his opener in San Antonio, Reed attributed his recent struggles to the lies and lofts being off in his irons. He declared the issue largely resolved, then missed his third straight cut after a second-round 77.

Game Matching the Hair: Ollie Schniederjans. After contending at Harbour Town, the rookie put up a solid T-18 finish at Valero to crack the OWGR top 100 for the first time in his career. A breakthrough like Chappell and Wesley Bryan had in consecutive weeks may not be far behind.

Blown Fantasy Pick of the Week: Charley Hoffman. After seven straight years as the Can’t-Miss Kid in San Antonio, Hoffman put up a pedestrian T-40 finish with no score lower than his opening-round 71.

Source: Golf Channel

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mccormickcreek · 8 years ago