Rory McIlroy finds trouble on the 9th hole during the first round of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. Photograph: David Cannon/Getty Images So much for the luck of the Irish on an opening day of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth which saw Rory McIlroy fall victim to golf's lurking demons and Graeme McDowell lose out to golf's befuddling rules.The world No1 was already 11 holes into a bad day at the office when he hit his second shot at the par-five 12th hole just a few inches out-of-bounds. The cost was a two-shot penalty and a bogey six but it was the club-throwing reaction that caught the attention. When it comes to being mild-mannered, McIlroy usually makes Clark Kent look Joey Barton. Not ... Continue reading →
It’s going to be a long time before the various lawsuits shake themselves out, but one thing’s already clear with respect to the Facebook IPO: absolutely no one has come out of it looking good. It’s worth going down the List of Incompetence here, because regardless of whether any of this was illegal, there are a lot of extremely well-compensated people who, to use a technical term, screwed the pooch on this one. Top of that list, frankly, is Facebook CFO David Ebersman. The WSJ’s account of his central role in the offering is reasonably definitive: a lot of decisions normally outsourced to banks in the markets were made, in this case, by a tech-company executive in Menlo Park. Ebersman didn’t make one big mistake, ... Continue reading →
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