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      Woods out for the year with ACL surgery

      June 18, 2008 /

      According to NBCSports.com, Tiger Woods will have season-ending ACL surgery on his left knee.

      He also suffered a double stress fracture of his left tibia two weeks before the U.S. Open, ignoring doctors’ advice to take six weeks off to let it heal. And he still won the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, going 91 holes over five days on a knee that was getting worse.

      “Now, it is clear that the right thing to do is to listen to my doctors, follow through with this surgery and focus my attention on rehabilitating my knee,” Woods said on his Web site.

      He had arthroscopic surgery April 15 to clean out cartilage in his left knee, bypassing ACL surgery with hopes it could get him through the 2008 season. But the stress fracture and a ligament that could no longer sustain a powerful swing made it impossible to keep going.

      Woods did not say when he would have surgery. His swing coach, Hank Haney, said the recovery is typically six to eight months.

      That’s disappointing coming off a great performance at the U.S. Open, but obviously he was in a lot of pain and he doesn’t wan to be playing on a bad knee all year and possibly cause further damage.

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      Tiger best athlete in history?

      June 18, 2008 /

      Gordon Monson of the Salt Lake Tribune writes that Tiger Woods is the best athlete in history – even better than MJ.

      It may not be a decathlon, but I didn’t say Tiger was the most athletic athlete of all time. I said he would be the greatest.

      Why?

      Because of the way he dominates his realm.

      Not even Jordan did that the way Tiger does. Watching what he pulled off at the U.S. Open this past week is just the latest reminder. Limping around the course, grimacing with the tremendous force put upon his left knee off the tee, after surgery on that knee just two months ago, hitting ridiculous putts he had to hit in order to win, it was remarkable to watch.

      Tiger is a lot like Jordan in that he has the best physical tools and the most mental toughness, a combination that makes him beyond formidable. We all saw the eye-popping eagle putts, the putts on 18 that on Sunday forced an 18-hole playoff and on Monday pushed that playoff to an extra hole.

      Woods didn’t have his top game going at Torrey Pines; he was spraying the ball all over. But, in a way, that framed his greatness even more, highlighting the clutch shots he had to execute in order to win. He did and he did, the bum knee notwithstanding.

      I get what Monson is saying, but it’s so hard to compare athletes in different sports and different generations. There are just too many questions that can be raised and the debate goes around in circles. Tiger’s performance at this year’s U.S. Open was absolutely amazing. Let’s leave it at that for now.

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      Tiger wins 14th major after beating Mediate in U.S. Open sudden death

      June 16, 2008 /

      Tiger Woods won his 14th major championship Monday, topping Rocco Mediate in a sudden death playoff at the 2008 U.S. Open.

      Both players shot even-par 71 in the 18-hole playoff, which forced a sudden-death format starting at the seventh hole.

      Mediate hit his drive into a fairway bunker and was unable to reach the green with his approach. Woods, meanwhile, was on the green safely in two.

      Mediate’s long putt for par missed, giving Woods his third U.S. Open title and continuing his run of 14 straight major wins when he leads entering the final round.

      What an amazing U.S. Open this year, from Tiger’s remarkable 12-foot birdie put on the 18th green Sunday, to the massive underdog Mediate forcing not only a playoff, but a sudden death as well.

      Mediate had a chance to put Tiger away in the first playoff when he birdied three holes in a row on 13, 14 and 15, but it’s hard to say anything negative about Mediate because he played his ass off. Tiger is simply the best and he proved it yet again this past weekend, planning through pain in his knee to come up with yet another masterful performance. This might have been his most impressive major win to date.

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      Mariotti calls out Tiger

      April 14, 2008 /

      Chicago Sun Times columnist and everyone’s favorite bigmouth Jay Mariotti called out Tiger Woods for not backing up his words at this year’s Masters, won by Trevor Immelman on Sunday.

      In one disjointed sense, this truly was a piece of history we should tell the grandkids about. Never before has Tiger Woods been so fantastically presumptuous — and so gloriously wrong. Without prompting from any source but his own inner voices, he had the temerity to suggest that a calendar-year Grand Slam was “easily within reason” for him.

      While we applaud him for manufacturing drama that otherwise wouldn’t have existed in April, do note that unkept promises usually aren’t part of a sports legend’s resume. What does it say when Plaxico Burress nails a Super Bowl prediction but the extraordinary Woods, never known for outlandish boasts of any sort, instantly blows the forecast and loses the Masters by three strokes to the worthy but previously obscure Trevor Immelman?

      It tells us that Tiger, who made the comments on his personal Web site as the season began, might want to withhold such bold opinions if he can’t take the heat. As dusk fell over Augusta National, he clearly wasn’t happy that his self-fueled Slam talk had become such a hot-button topic — and a major letdown Sunday. What, when Eldrick Woods interjects “Grand Slam” into the discussion, people aren’t going to listen and react? Um, aren’t we talking about the world’s biggest sportsman, the first billion-dollar athlete?

      Tiger can’t take the heat? After one bold comment on his personal website that wasn’t even that bad to begin with? Stop stirring the pot Mariotti – Tiger has nothing to prove and he’s always been a class act. And the comparison to Plaxico Burress was a reach to say the least.

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