ORLANDO, Florida (AP)—Tiger Woods has added the British Open to his summer schedule.

Woods has a chance to become the first player in the 150-year history of the British Open to win three times at St. Andrews, where golf’s oldest championship will be held July 15-18.

He added the British Open to the schedule on his website Monday.

Woods, who withdrew from the final round of The Players Championship on May 9 with a neck injury, also has the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach and the AT&T National at Aronimink on his schedule.

He has yet to enter the Memorial, where he is the defending champion.

If you buy your sports games used and enjoy playing them online for free, EA would like to have a word with you.

And that word would be “no.”

The mega-publisher announced Monday that beginning with the June 8th release of Tiger Woods 11, all future EA Sports games for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 will include a one-time, game-specific “Online Pass” code, which grants access to “online services, features and bonus content.”

Sounds fine and dandy, but for one catch: while the code comes free with new copies of any EA Sports game, it can only be used once. Buy the game used — or even just rent it through a service like GameFly — and you’ll be unable to play it online beyond a free seven-day trial period…unless you cough up $10 for an additional Online Pass.

“This is an important inflection point in our business because it allows us to accelerate our commitment to enhance premium online services to the entire robust EA SPORTS online community,” said EA Sports president Peter Moore.

According to the official Online Pass site, online services that will be affected by the feature include “multiplayer online play, group features like online dynasty and leagues, user created content, and bonus downloadable content for your game including, for example, a new driver in Tiger.”

The move is part of EA’s so-called “Project Ten Dollar” initiative and is considered another attack on the used game market, which many publishers see as a financial black hole. EA has made prior attempts to dissuade the practice, although it remains an affordable solution to gamers looking for a bit of a bargain at the cost of owning new.

Interestingly, leading game retailer GameStop, who enjoy substantial revenue from selling used games, is seemingly supportive of the new program.

“This relationship allows us to capitalize on our investments to market and sell downloadable content online, as well as through our network of stores worldwide,” said GameStop CEO Dan DeMatteo.

So is this a smart move by EA, or merely another case of a publisher gouging its customers? Let us know in the comments.

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World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao thinks he’s going to need more speed if he fights Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41-0, 25 KO’s) after watching Floyd’s win last night over WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley. In an article by Tim Dahlberg at Yahoo Sports, Pacquiao said “If we [speaking about Mayweather] fight, I’ll need more speed because Mayweather is fast.” How Pacquiao plans to get that extra speed would seem unclear.

At 31, Pacquiao is likely as fast as he’ll ever be and, if anything, he’ll only get slower in the future, not faster. Pacquiao has already moved up three weight divisions in the past two years and that alone is going to be a problem getting in the way of picking up more speed. Pacquiao is bigger, older, and probably as fast as he’s going to get.
For a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao to be set up, Pacquiao would have to agree to the Olympic style random blood testing that Mayweather wants all his opponents to agree to take.
His fight with Pacquiao fell apart earlier this year over the same issue when Pacquiao would only agree to having his blood tested 24 days before the fight. He feels that it weakens him when he has his blood tested. Mayweather, unfortunately, will likely want Pacquiao to agree to have his blood tested within this time frame. Will Pacquiao agree to have it tested near the fight?

It’s doubtful. In the same article at Yahoo, Pacquiao had this to say “For me, as long as the drug test is not done close to the match, I’ll agree because if they’ll get blood from me close to the match, it will be a disadvantage for me because I’m smaller and he’s big.”

This could be a positive sign that Pacquiao is at least open to having his blood tested, except if he doesn’t want his blood tested nearer than 24 days before the fight then this could prevent a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight from being made. Mayweather was agreeable to having the blood tests stop two weeks before the fight, but that wasn’t accepted by Pacquiao and his team. This is something that can be worked out if Pacquiao is willing to make near the 2 week period. It’s hard to imagine that Mayweather will want the tests to be nearer than that, but you never know. He could want them all the way up to the fight now that he’s beaten Mosley and is riding high in popularity with the boxing fans.

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With over 4 million PPV buys it will be on again this coming up weekend. Mayweather and his official publicity tour announced that he is going to punish Mosely. Mosely had a pretty swift response when on May 1st will be May’s first loss of his career. Mayweather told Mosely and his crew that they should be fortunate and thankful for allowing team Mayweather to fight against Shane. In my humble opinion, Mawyweather is going to work Shane and Floyd will remain undefeated.

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