Running Tiger Woods thread

Oh, and he was a bad tipper. He stopped being friends with people. He fired his caddie who said bad things about him.

 

That sentence was awkwardly constructed.

 

Speaking of, the book states that a handful of reporters - including Jamie Diaz -knew weeks in advance that Woods was turning pro after his sophomore year at Stanford but had to keep quiet or else feel the wrath of Earl.

 

There are two broad categories of book-length journalism, it seems, and they both work in their own different ways.

I really enjoyed Jack McCallum's "Dream Team" because he covered the team and the NBA. No one else could have written the book that he did.

At the same time, I really enjoyed Jonathan Eig's Ali biography. Eig, to my knowledge, never covered a single round Ali fought. He was in high school when Ali retired. You don't get the "insider" perspective. But you also don't get the insider bias.

 

I know a few people who’ve played with Couples in pro-ams, and they all say he’s a box of rocks above the shoulders, which helps his game because he doesn’t overthink the situations.

 

Before I fully assess your comment, I need to know, were those people Jets or Giants fans?

 

-1 after 3.

 

Neither. Pats and Steelers fans

 

Tough day for the golf writer crowd. The outcome they crave is unlikely with Tiger down the leader board.

 

I’m reading it now, 17 percent through. It’s good, with the limitations of almost any biography. You can only work with the information you have. Tiger goes from being a nice quiet kid to ditching his girlfriend with a dickish letter overnight, and there’s no real A to Z there other than, Crazy dad.

The Stanford mugging story is strange. He clearly made it up, but they can’t quite prove it and don’t quite say it. I assume he either lost or pawned the $5,000 gold chain his mom bought him and had to come up with an explanation.

 

I had a very vivid dream last night that Tiger died. I found out on the TV, and the sportscaster was crying when he announced the news.