“color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Verdana;”>It was not that long that Tiger Woods was the king of golf and anyone who thought out loud in an ill manner of him was taken to the back room and nearly flogged with a pitching wedge.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Welcome to 2011 Tiger.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>The star has tarnished, and it is now open season on the lone person of color on the tour who is the single most important reason the PGA is what it is today.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>While Woods has struggled since a nasty divorce that has involved every skank from the yesteryears of the Club Broadway in East St. Louis to your local Denny’s. (By the way, The Broadway had its star power too, for all of you readers that met Mr. or Ms. Right there.)
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Even his colleagues on the tour have decided to take aim at the one-time icon. In one of those “boys only” dinners, Woods’ former caddy Steve Williams, who is still snorting over being fired, showed his backside. The caddy said when his new client Adam Scott won a tournament that Woods was involved in, he took great joy in it, resorting to foul language and references to body parts we can’t print while calling out Woods by race.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Once word got out, Williams’ comments were met with everything from a chuckle to “what do you want me to do?” No one has stepped up in the golf community to call out Williams for what he said, though they all eat better and take care of their families in a better manner thanks to Tiger Woods.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Adam Scott said he thought Williams should apologize. I remind you he said he “thought,” not that he insists. Williams relented and through a statement he did apologize. Woods, being consistent, never uttered a word about the comments, only releasing a short statement through his agent.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>I can recall when Tiger won the Masters and when former Masters Champion Fuzzy Zoeller suggested they serve collard greens and perhaps watermelon at the Champions dinner. It all hit the fan. Zoeller seemed to apologize to everyone he could find, short of the club pro at Forest Park.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Now you have the likes of Greg Norman saying that Williams’ statement was not racist. OK, Greg, what would you call it, just good old boy talk when Woods was not around?
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Williams needs to get over it. People get fired every day for working harder than carrying a set of someone else’s golf clubs. Tiger put a lot of money in this clown’s pocket and if he wants to carry this further then he should give the money back.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>As for the media, they have just kind of pooh-poohed this thing, as if it were just an off-color remark that meant no harm. Three years ago they would have led the charge in making sure Williams could not caddie on the moon. “color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Verdana;”>
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Another way to lose “color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Verdana;”>
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Just when I was thinking after a big win over New Orleans and all the big talk from Rams players after the game, maybe now they can put a streak of two or three wins together. Throw in the fact that the Rams were playing the Arizona Cardinals without their starting quarterback, I am almost all in on this one.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Then something hit me. They had only won one game for a reason.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>They continued to find new way to lose. How do you get a field goal blocked at the end of the game? Better, how can you have a 99-yard punt returned in OVERTIME?
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>This will be a longer season than I thought. “color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Verdana;”>
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Mizzou to the SEC “color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Verdana;”>
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>It finally happened, and I could not be happier. This will be a real tough task for the entire athletic department at Mizzou, as the SEC is no joke. They take few prisoners on Saturdays, and Mizzou will have to step up its game in recruiting better players.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>I would much rather see Mizzou play the likes of Alabama, LSU, Tennessee and others over Iowa State, Baylor and Texas Tech. Whoever travels to those cities, or should I say towns, to see Ole Mizzou play these slugs? “color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Verdana;”>
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Blue again “color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Verdana;”>
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #2a2a2a;”>Well, what do you know? The Blues made another coaching change, number 25 in the 40-plus years of their existence. No one comes close when it comes to futility. The current regime has gone through its fourth coach in seven seasons, and yet no one else has taken the fall for this farce. No owner, no president, no one has been charged with making so many bad hires and yet kept a job. The two at the top have shown all the skills of leadership that Qaddafi showed at his last stand.
