Adam Scott winning the Masters with an incredible putt in an intense playoff was great for several reasons:

1. He’s the first Australian to ever win the Masters, so his green jacket is a massive relief to golf fans in Britain’s former penal colony*.
2. Whenever he wins, people incorrectly Tweet at actor Adam Scott, and that must be funny, because he’s all, “Why are people Tweeting at me about golf? Oh, because we have the same name.” It’s like when someone named Ashley Burns won on Wheel of Fortune and my ex-wives were like, “HALF!” Suckers.
3. Because I could have potentially won several hundred pieces of paper had Angel Cabrera won, and I need to be reminded that gambling is wrong. You know, if I had been gambling, which I wasn’t.
4. Tiger Woods not winning means we weren’t buried in an avalanche of “Tiger should have withdrawn!” columns from contrarian sports writers who weren’t at Augusta and wouldn’t even write about golf if it weren’t for Tiger.
5. That picture above.

Man, that photo of Scott taking in the moment is the cat’s pajamas, as my grandfather would have said in a strip club. But Scott deserves better in his big moment, so I decided to fancy up his glorious photo a little with the help of some photoshop. I bet you can’t even tell that I made changes.

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Most people hate only a certain number of writers, and can live with the rest. Urban Meyer, the current (right?) Florida Gators football coach, hates them all. All of ‘em. Doesn’t matter if you cover college football or armadillo racing, he hates you and is happy to let you know this.

That’s why this story shouldn’t surprise you from Augusta National. Meyer, at the Masters with his family, decided that no matter the situation, he is above the law, and to be fair, isn’t Meyer way more important than a few silly journalists trying to do their job?

In an area around Amen Corner reserved for media, a few journalists noticed it full so they waited patiently for it to clear. When three people walked by with general admission badges, the reporters got a little flustered.

When three people left the stands, they were wearing daily Masters tickets — the kind that admits fans — not the working press credentials that are required for admittance to the viewing area. When it was pointed out to a security guard that fans had evidently gotten past him, he replied: “That was coach Urban Meyer and his family.”  – Florida Times-Union

What’s interesting about this is, Meyer might be the biggest douchebag from Florida to be around Amen Corner since Chris DiMarco nearly beat Tiger Woods in 2005.

That said, wouldn’t it just be fantastic if someone at Augusta National banned Meyer from future tickets? Now that would be a tradition unlike any other.