Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Calvin Peete, 71, a Pioneer on the PGA Tour, Is Dead - NYTimes.com - Bruce Weber - Calvin Peete, whose life traced one of sport’s most triumphant arcs — a school dropout with a crooked left arm who did not pick up a golf club until his 20s, did not join the pro tour until his 30s, and still became one of the leading players of his era and the most successful black professional golfer before Tiger Woods — has died. He was 71.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/sports/calvin-peete-71-a-pioneer-on-the-pga-tour-is-dead.html?_r=0


Calvin Peete, 1943-2015: One Of Golf's Least Likely Champions: The Loop : Golf Digest - John Strege - Peete, who died Wednesday morning at 71, was as unlikely a champion as golf ever produced. There was his upbringing; he was one of 19 kids from his father’s two marriages and was a high school dropout who worked in the fields “from sunup to sundown,” People magazine once wrote, “or, as he would say, from ‘can to cain’t.’” He had diamonds implanted in his two front teeth and sold jewelry to migrant farm workers. He did not take up golf until he was 23, and in a sport that preaches left arm straight, his was permanently bent from falling off a tree and breaking it.


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http://www.golfdigest.com/blogs/the-loop/2015/04/calvin-peete-1943-2015-one-of.html


@TheMeck - Calvin Peete won his 1st Pro Golf Tourn (Mini-Tour) in early 70s in Dothan Ala at The Olympia Spa (now Dothan Natl). He won $5 Thousand. - TheMeck



http://themeck.blogspot.com/2015/04/themeck-calvin-peete-won-his-1st-pro.html


Calvin Peete, winner of 12 PGA Tour events, dies - USATODAY



http://themeck.blogspot.com/2015/04/calvin-peete-winner-of-12-pga-tour.html


MIKE SCHMITZ HYUNDAI OF DOTHAN -- MERCEDES OF DOTHAN - MAZDA OF DOTHAN



http://themeck.blogspot.com/2014/04/mike-schmitz-hyundai-of-dothan-mercedes.html?m=1


Manny Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach thinks Floyd Mayweather may not fight | Boxingjunkie



http://boxingjunkie.com/2015/04/29/freddie-roach-floyd-mayweather-pull-out-fight/


Alabama cornerback Cyrus Jones arrested on domestic violence charges | AL.com



http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2015/04/alabama_cornerback_cyrus_jones_2.html#incart_most-read_