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opinion:
Random thoughts
on sports over the weekend
Tiger Woods fails
to win the U.S. Open: Did Tiger secretly get married? According
to his father, getting married can be a deterrent to a good
golf game. So, the only explanation of Tiger's fiasco at the
U.S. Open last weekend has to be a new wife.
How else can one
explain the Cypress native, who honed his golf skills on the
public courses of Long Beach, playing like this Huntington
Beach native who also, ahem, "honed" his skills
on the same courses?
For the love of
God, Tiger -- is this redundant -- please get a divorce and
start playing some real golf!
Professional golf:
Usually golf on television is a bore, but watching Retief
Goosen and Stewart Cink muff putts on the18th hole of the
U.S. Open Sunday made for great TV.
At least Goosen
was able to pull it together and win in an 18-hole playoff
Monday, but it still doesn't change the fact that his name
is Retief Goosen. I bet his brothers are probably named Jim
and Bill.
So even though
Goosen pulled out the win, Sunday's case of the yips is what
will be remembered. From now on, when I miss a two-footer,
I can say, "Man, I Retiefed it."
The Lakers:
They're good.
Chick Hearn:
Give Chick his due. Just because he's 80-something and occasionally
loses track of where he is, the man is a legend. Chick now
has as many championship rings eas Phil Jackson (8), and despite
his occasional flubs, he still can come up with a beauty call.
Example: After Shaq put down another thunder-dunk during the
finals, he ran back up the court smiling. Chick said, "I
haven't seen Shaq this happy since he bought his Christmas
tree."
What? Calls like
that are why I, and many others, love Chick. Some don't, however,
and if you count yourself as one of them, just remember this
is the man who invented the term "slam dunk."
Allen Iverson:
Listening to Iverson complain about the officials was excruciating.
Iverson's a great player, but the whining will take away from
his playing legacy -- I will not get into the things that
have taken away from his legacy as a human being.
Allen, if the officials
called technical fouls the way they do during the regular
season, you wouldn't have made it out of the first half in
any of these games.
By the way, weren't
those the same officials that fouled Shaq and Derek Fisher
out of the crucial Game 3? Oh yeah, the Lakers still won that
game, and just imagine what would have happened if the Lakers
didn't have the officials on their side.
Laker flags:
Please, let it be done. I was hoping for a sweep in the finals,
not because it would have insured the Lakers the first-ever
undefeated run during the playoffs, but because those flailing
pieces of cloth could soon be off the road.
My buddy told me,
"the flags bring the city together." So does a riot,
but the citizens of LA decided not to follow that trend this
year.
Dodgers-Angels
play interleague series: Did this really happen, and more
importantly, did anybody watch or attend? Nice scheduling
-- somebody wake me up in September when the pennant races
heat up.
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