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http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/8247020/Hobbled-Tiger-won't-close-deal-on-Sunday SAN DIEGO - It's over. Your 2008 U.S. Open champion is Tiger Woods. Come on, the guy is 13-for-13 when leading going into the final round of a major. So really, is there a point to watching on Sunday? Let's just give him his 14th major. Well, not so fast. I'll tell you why it will be different. There's no doubt that Tiger played one of the most memorable rounds in history on Saturday. The world's No. 1 hobbled around the course on his surgically repaired knee looking like Paul Pierce in the first game of the NBA Finals, wincing after every drive, two eagles and a miracle chip in. It certainly was another chapter in his tremendous legacy. But if you really look at his round Saturday, Tiger didn't play very well. He missed eight of 14 fairways and was so wild with his drives that he overshot many of the rough areas hitting into to the gallery, which is actually allowed to go for greens. Then he found only 9 of 18 greens in regulation. Not what you expect from the person leading the U.S. Open. When asked about his result Saturday, he said, "It's all about getting the ball in the hole in as few shots as possible." Some would say great. Others would say lucky. foxsports.net 6/15/08

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2008/06/12/stuff-crimson-and-white-people-like/ Coach Bryant: This is perhaps too obvious, but there is little doubt that since the apotheosis of General Robert E. Lee there has not been as much hero worship directed toward an individual until the time of Paul William “Bear” Bryant. There are goods odds that you could walk into any mom and pop diner in most parts of Alabama and start a very healthy debate amongst people that adamantly believe that debating is for sissies, if you threw out this question: Greater man; General Lee or Coach Bryant. Rest assured he wasn’t the only coach to take his Alabama teams to the Promised Land. But he was however, the best and most of the modern association with Alabama’s football glory days begins and ends with him. There are a few things that need to be stated about the man and the legend though. First of all, it’s Coach Bryant. If you refer to him as Bear you are a rival fan or brain-dead. Bear is a title that shows disrespect to the man, similar to the way calling a senior citizen by their first name if you don’t really know them is disrespectful. He was “Coach”, first and foremost. If you find a crimson and white person’s respect (or if you prefer, deification) of Coach Bryant silly or poorly placed then to quote Ricky Bobby “fuck you”. Crimson and white people could give two red cents about your opinion on that subject. If you feel the need to point out that he drank to much or was of questionable character at times then you are simply jealous and crimson and white people are well armed with anecdotes that prove you are merely hating. To prove their devotion, a new book is published about him about every 36 hours. If you missed the latest one, don’t worry there will be another in about, oh, 10 minutes. The books are increasing at such a rate that soon someone will have to build the Paul Bryant Library, which will naturally be located next to the Bryant Museum, which is on Bryant Drive, not too far from the Bryant Bridge and Bryant High School and a conveniently located branch of the Bryant Bank, just to house all the books about Bryant himself. Don’t kid yourself and think that simple knowledge of him it is all that is required. It is also an obsession with all things associated with him. Like Golden Flake Potato Chips, Coca Cola, Chesterfield cigarettes, and most especially… Everdayshouldbesaturday.com 6/12/08