We don’t know what to believe…but we will know soon if everything is alright with Lefty.

It was a stunner of a story on the PGA Tour at the Memorial.  FBI agents descending on the historic Jack Nicklaus course in Dublin, Ohio, to confront golfer Phil Mickelson.

This months after the golfer was pulled off a plane in New Jersey for questions too about his affiliation with a gambler.A rich player, has fun in Las Vegas, befriends a known gambler.  An athletes who likes the gaming tables, and likes to bet.

His friend, a longtime track record of gambling wins and gambling losses.  And an association with the CEO of Clorox.

And now all these questions about stock purchases, profits, and the red flag words “Insider Trading information”.

Mickelson says he is not a target, but did he benefit from deals?  Did he know what gambler-friend Billy Walters was doing.

Don’t jump to conclusions on this story till you get all the facts.  Yes there are too many good things that Phil Mickelson represents as golfer, businessman, father and husband.

But in this world in which we have come to lose faith in athletes who are pitched as one thing, and turn out to be something else, you wonder what he knew, what he did, did he profit from it?

Hard to believe Phil Mickelson is involved in this.  But then again it was hard to believe who Tiger Woods was and did, or what Alex Rodriguez became.  We know how all that turned out.

Until he is in front of a grand jury, I’ll sit and wait and hope he is on the fringe, and not involved at all.  Thinking this is a bogey of a story involving Phil.  Hoping all is right with lefty on this one.

The Media is not supposed to do it… but we will break this rule this time.

There’s college baseball to be played around the country today.  1st round of the NCAA regional tournaments.  San Diego State, coming off an awesome season, plays Mississippi State at 11am in the South regional in Louisiana.

A loaded batting order, with 5- .300 hitters will be there.  A deep pitching staff, with All American reliever Mike Cederoth and big strikeout starter Bubba Derby will be there.  The coach, the superstar, the icon, the local hero, will not.

Tony Gwynn, continuing the fight of his life, to beat back cancer, and regain his immune system and strength, has been bed-ridden, and in a wheel chair for an extended time.  The laugh and smile are there at times, but we all know the implications of relapses, and the wear-and-tear factor of chemo-radiation and multiple surgeries.

His legacy will forever be in a Padres uniform as a Hall of Fame batter.  His lasting accomplishment at his alma mater is what he has finally built SDSU into, a very good college program.

It’s not been easy, this war against the disease.  But he has never wavered.  It hasn’t been easy, the missteps taken in trying to find the right combination in recruiting at SDSU.

Gwynn has hit a home run, finding the balance in scheduling, and convincing young pitching to come to the Mesa and build a career.

Every San Diegan is pulling for, rooting for Tony, to slap this disease thru the 5.5. hole and beat it back again.

He will be there in spirit and his uniform will be in the Aztecs dugout this entire weekend.  He will watch from afar, but everyone in San Diego, while rooting for his team, are rooting more for the man, the media included.

Root root root for the home team and its coach…