The book has not even been published yet, but everyone knows it is going to tie this permanent A list athlete to the mob and that he has done some very bad things, which is why he is shadow suspended right now.

The book is apparently also going to feature some athletes who are not named by name to keep them from getting into trouble.

Blind items galore. Apparently our A lister would loan shark to up and coming players, including one who threatened to kill the A lister if he ever got the chance.

That athlete is a steroid user in the same sport as the A lister.

Then, there will be the accusations of on purpose tanking that netted millions of dollars.

Another A list athlete would help with this scam.

He was up to his ears in everything bad too when he was wasted on drugs all the time.

Phil Mickelson

Phil Mickelson will miss the Masters for the 1st time in 28 years after controversy

Pro golfer Phil Mickelson won’t play in the famed Masters Tournament this year, the first time he hasn’t swung a club in the contest since 1994.

News of the surprising absence came one month after Mickelson publicly apologized for controversial comments he made about Saudi Arabia and a new Saudi-backed golf league and announced he needed “some time away.”

The Masters lists Mickelson, 51, under the category of “past champions not playing” on its website. He also missed the Players Championship earlier this month.

In February golf writer Alan Shipnuck published an excerpt from his upcoming biography of Mickelson in which the legendary golfer speaks candidly about the Saudi-backed Super Golf League, an upstart organization trying to draw in some of the sport’s top talent.

“They’re scary motherf****** to get involved with,” Mickelson said in the interview posted on the golf website Fire Pit Collective.

“We know they killed [Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it?” he went on. “Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates.” – Source

The Truth About Phil and Saudi Arabia

As the Saudi Golf League threatens to create a new world order for professional golf, one of the biggest questions in the game can be boiled down to three words: Whither Phil Mickelson? Mercurial, strident, Machiavellian, the 51-year-old Hall of Famer is, as has often been the case, engulfed in controversy. Mickelson has refrained from saying anything of substance publicly about the upstart SGL, but his involvement in the birth of the tour is much more extensive than has been previously known; he laid out the details for me in a long phone call last November, as I was putting the finishing touches on my forthcoming book Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf’s Most Colorful Superstar. Knowing that in the course of my reporting I had conducted (nearly 200) interviews with both his critics and supporters, Mickelson couldn’t resist trying to peddle influence regarding one of the most polarizing chapters in a quarrelsome career.

Mickelson told me he had enlisted three other “top players” he declined to name and that they paid for attorneys to write the SGL’s operating agreement, codifying that the players would have control of all the details. He didn’t pretend to be excited about hitching his fortunes to Saudi Arabia, admitting the SGL was nothing more than what he called “sportswashing” by a brutally repressive regime. “They’re scary motherfuckers to get involved with,” he said. “We know they killed [Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates. They’ve been able to get by with manipulative, coercive, strong-arm tactics because we, the players, had no recourse. As nice a guy as [PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan] comes across as, unless you have leverage, he won’t do what’s right. And the Saudi money has finally given us that leverage. I’m not sure I even want [the SGL] to succeed, but just the idea of it is allowing us to get things done with the [PGA] Tour.” – Source

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