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Tiger Woods sank the last putt from a couple inches away. He pumped two fists. Smiling, he turned to shake hands with his caddy, hugging him in what appeared to be a celebratory embrace. As the caddy started to pull away, Woods hung on. His head buried in the caddy's shoulder, his body convulsing.
The two then walked side-by-side, Woods still in tears, off the course. Woods found his wife, his comfort, and broke down further in her arms.
Congratulations to Tiger and his family.
There are still people who wonder why I spend so much time on the internet.
Does it boggle anyone else's mind that somebody could bike 2,000 miles with a hip that's going to have to be replaced next week?
I did a lot of bicycle PT for my re-attached patellar tendon, and it was no fun at all.
Wow, that was almost 10 years ago.
Actually, if I was able to hit a golf ball without either a) taking a big piece of sod with it or b) slicing it into someone's car way to the left, that would be a victory for humanity. Or at least me.
is there still a game happening? When do the Dodgers return from their all-star break?
it was all guts & hart.
7 - Tiger Woods = underdog? That's like saying "Detroit Tigers, best record in baseball"! ;)
However, calling him an underdog is absurd. He's charismatic, talented, revolutionary, even polarizing, but not an underdog.
The underdog was Chris DiMarco, who once again fell just short of chasing down Tiger in a Major. It's too bad few noticed he was playing so well after losing his monther this month.
http://www.nypost.com/sports/chasing_tiger_sports_mark_cannizzaro.htm
I know you like a good heart-warming story, Jon. There is your underdog, with just as compelling a tale.
What I saw from Tiger after he won just grabbed me. I'm not trying to take anything away from Chris DiMarco, and I certainly can't cover every compelling out there.
I'm not trying to come across as a crank. My point was just that DiMarco had a story too, but it wasn't drowned in the coverage of a sobbing Tiger Woods. OK, bad wording again there.
Jon, you do a fantastic job of finding the humanitarian bent in stories often missed by regular news reports. I think I was just disappointed because I thought you could have compared the two golfers who both played well and contrasted the way one was more visible with his emotions than the other was. Not right or wrong for either, just examining two athletes' lives beyond the scores and stats.
Talking solely about Tiger is the same thing everyone else is doing, not your usual value-added coverage. OK, I'll stop telling you how to do your job before I get smacked down - I really do love the blog.
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