Phil should not apologize!

Shocking, the amount reaction to Phil Mickelson’s commentary on taxes. Why the venom toward Phil? Regardless of your financial situation, you get it, right? Phil is at the top of an industry that is highly lucrative when you are a champion. Moreover, being a champion, and a generally likable character, the endorsement money flows in. When you make a ton of money, and you see how much you have to pay in taxes, at some point you look for a more advantageous solution.

Tiger Woods did, and he admitted as much. So why the apology? Phil says because he shouldn’t have used the forum of a golf press conference to express a political opinion. Why not? This is golf, most of the fans of the game feel the way he does. I get it, many of us have hit hard times, in particular, in the last few years. However, in Phil’s world, this is the way he thinks. Most people are tired of being so heavily taxed, especially here in California. Have you checked your pay stub recently and seen the additional payroll tax taken out? We all feel the pain of taxes. Phil had the guts to say something, and the next thing you know he is forced into an apology he clearly didn’t want to make. Don’t apologize Phil. We all get it, you’re rich, no need to apologize.

Oprah wins!

Speaking of rich, Oprah Winfrey will get even richer thanks to Lance Armstrong. Lance talked in part two of his interview about how he lost his endorsement deals with Nike, Trek, Anheiser-Busch, and others; he called it a $75 million day, when he lost his future earnings.

So while Lance was getting crushed by former supporters, guys like me were finding, for the first time and after much searching, the Oprah Winfrey Network. Well, little did we know that Lance’s downfall would be the rebirth of OWN, as nearly 30 million people around the world watched.

Harbaugh the same guy

When you watch Jim Harbaugh coach the 49ers in the Super Bowl next week, understand that he is the exact same guy now, coaching in the NFL, as he was when he was the coach at USD. We shot video in 2005 of Jim’s pregame speech to the Toreros before they played Morehead State. Go to the online version of this story at to see the video comparison of Jim, then and now!


