CBS Sports golf analyst David Feherty apologized yesterday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a morbid joke that went bad in a Dallas magazine.
Feherty, a native of Northern Ireland, was among five Dallas residents who wrote for “D Magazine” on former President George W. Bush moving to Dallas.
“From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this though,” Feherty wrote. “Despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.”
Feherty has gone to Iraq over Thanksgiving the past two years to visit with U.S. troops, and he created a foundation to help wounded soldiers.
“This passage was a metaphor meant to describe how American troops felt about our 43rd president,” Feherty said in a statement. “In retrospect, it was inappropriate and unacceptable, and has clearly insulted Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid, and for that, I apologize.”
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Tiger Woods, playing in the final pairing with third-round leader Alex Cejka, shot a 1-over 73 in the final round yesterday at The Players Championship and finished eighth.
“I just kept hitting those spinners up to the right,” said Woods, who failed to win while in the final pairing for the first time since the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont. “It was frustrating.”
Although he birdied two of the final five holes, Woods didn’t have a shot at winning the Players for the first time since 2001.
“I’ll fix it, no problem,” said Woods, who said his surgical left knee was feeling fine.
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Cristie Kerr took the lead with a birdie on the 15th hole and held off In-Kyung Kim by two strokes to win the Michelob Ultra Open yesterday in Williamsburg, Va.
In Turin, Argentina’s Daniel Vancsik won the Italian Open, closing with a 6-under 65 for a six-stroke victory over John Daly, Raphael Jacquelin and Robert Rock.
