Four years. That's how long Thomas Jefferson (Texas) High School's football team went without a victory. Put it this way: The last time the team saw a "W" in the win column, the Indianapolis Colts were still Super Bowl champions. Losing 36 games in a row is difficult for any coach to swallow. You almost become accustomed to losing after a while, and sooner or later, start to wonder if you'll ever win a game.

But all streaks eventually come to an end and on Saturday afternoon, Thomas Jefferson snapped the incredible 36-game losing skid with a dramatic 19-16 come-from-behind victory against Fort Worth Diamond Hill-Jarvis (Texas) High School.

"They've been through a lot,'' Thomas Jefferson head coach David Haynes told the Dallas Morning News. "We told them the only reason we won was because they kept fighting. What I like about these kids is they give you all they have to give. To see them rewarded, well, that's why I got into coaching.''

As the Dallas Morning News reported, Thomas

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The FedEx Cup playoffs are here, and that means there are just 30 guys with a chance to win the biggest monetary prize in all of golf. Let's continue to run down the list, shall we?

14. Phil Mickelson: Lefty hasn't exactly set the golf world on fire this season. Following a dramatic victory at the Shell Houston Open, the week prior to the Masters, it seemed like 2011 could be a special year for Phil. But the last five-plus months have been anything but special. Aside from three top-10 finishes, the rest of the season has been pretty pedestrian. Even with the sub-par numbers, you shouldn't discount his chances on an East Lake course where he's won the Tour Championship on two occasions.

13. K.J. Choi: One of the more consistent players on the PGA Tour, Choi captured the 2011 Players Championship in dramatic fashion -- a playoff victory over David Toms -- to earn his first PGA Tour title since 2008. It's hard to believe it's been that long since his last victory. Choi followed up the

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Sizing up the TV coverage from the BMW Championship ... and away we go.

Justin Rose may have been the biggest winner of the week at Cog Hill, but the Adidas adiSTREET were certainly running a close second as the most talked-about topic of the tournament.

Adidas' spikeless shoes got a huge boost in exposure with Rose's victory, and were discussed on multiple occasions during Thursday's opening round, when the Englishman went out an fired an 8-under 63 to establish a lead he never relinquished.

"There shoe change a couple weeks ago at the Deutsche Bank for Justin Rose," Dottie Pepper said. "He went to a soft shoe, almost loafer-like. I talked to Sean Foley, his teacher, a couple minutes ago and said it's really freed up his footwork. It also enabled him to make his hips rotate through, because there's not as much restriction down below."

Obviously, Rose wasn't a trendsetter in making the switch from conventional golf shoes to the street shoes. Fred Couples really set the whole trend in

Only two weeks have passed since the community of Burlington, North Carolina first came to grips with the news that Williams (North Carolina) High School quarterback Harry Cohen had died suddenly, just days after he led his school to a big victory in its home opener.

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Cohen's death was a shock to everyone in the community, and it left people wondering what had caused such a tragic turn of events. The quarterback had appeared to be in good spirits when he left the field, but many still wondered if a hit in the game had set something off in his body.

On Wednesday, the Burlington Times News obtained the medical examiner's report, which stated Cohen had not died from a blow to the head, but instead from taking his grandmother's methadone prescription. The medication, usually taken by patients to treat fibromyalgia, is lethal in small doses.

"There was nothing to absorb the medicine," Richard Kaffenberger, Cohen's stepfather, told the Times News. "It caused him to stop breathing, and he

LPGA-logoThe LPGA is taking center stage less than two weeks before the Solheim Cup at Killeen Castle in Ireland. Unfortunately for tour commissioner Mike Whan, this is probably one of those times where he wishes the LPGA wasn't in the news.

While the tour plays out the final full-field event of the year -- the Navistar Classic -- Whan had to tell the players in the field, on Tuesday, that those with plane tickets to China for the Imperial Spring LPGA event -- scheduled to be played the week after the Solheim Cup -- would have to cancel their reservations.

Late Monday night, the tour received word from event officials that the tournament was canceled. "Blindsided by the news, the LPGA has exhausted all possibilities to carry on with the event as scheduled," the LPGA said Tuesday in a press release. "Players were notified today at a previously scheduled players' meeting held at the site of the Navistar LPGA Classic."

While it was a limited-field event, the late cancellation is extremely

123397599Steve Stricker is certainly one of the quieter players on tour. A Midwestern guy who usually lets his clubs do the talking, Stricker rarely lets you know his opinion on certain courses and setups.

But the recent redesign at Cog Hill was apparently bad enough to warrant a strong opinion from Stricker. Prior to the start of the tournament, he spoke with the Daily Herald about Rees Jones' redesign of the Dubsdread course, saying he was "disappointed about what transpired there."

It raised a couple eyebrows, but didn't register until Stricker was asked again on the eve of the BMW Championship about the redesign. That's when Stricker laid into Jones and his work on the classic track for the second time in as many days.

"You know, it's just too bad," Stricker said. "I mean, they need to get their money back, I guess. It's too bad what happened here.

"Visually it looks much better than what it did, but playability, from the playability standpoint, I've got to believe for the average golfer,

The road to the Chicago Public League championship just got a whole lot easier this season. Chicago (Ill.) Julian High School was considered the front-runner to take home the league championship this season, after former Chicago (Ill.) Morgan Park High School quarterback Dae'Shaun Hurley transferred to Julian over the summer.

Hurley, who was already being courted by numerous Division I schools -- Arizona, West Virginia and four different Big Ten schools among them -- made the decision to transfer after Morgan Park head coach Lexie Spurlock was fired. As the Chicago Tribune reported, the move immediately sent up red flags, as Chicago Sports League administrators  started to take a closer look at the transfer to see if it was made for athletic reasons.

Chicago Public League sports administration director Calvin Johnson ruled on Wednesday that the transfer was indeed made for athletic purposes, forcing Hurley to sit out the entire season.

Davis said he determined that Hurley and another

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Sizing up the TV coverage from the Walker Cup ... and away we go.

This was supposed to be amateur golf's opportunity to enjoy the spotlight. With the FedEx Cup on a break, the Walker Cup had a rare opportunity to step up and receive some prime airtime on the national stage.

With ESPN holding the broadcasting the rights and the event being played in Scotland (meaning the live morning coverage wouldn't bump up against college or pro football), there was little reason to keep the matches from airing on one of the network's many channels.

But instead of slotting the matches on ESPN or ESPN2, the network decided to pull a head-scratcher, relegating the Walker Cup to ESPN3.com, the networks streaming web channel, and giving the BBC the nod over sending a crew from ESPN to the matches.

The BBC's coverage was far better than anything ESPN could have produced over the weekend, as Peter Alliss and the BBC proved once again that you don't need bells and whistles to produce a clean broadcast. At