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No let-up in the Tiger narrative
As the 2010 Open begins in earnest this morning the focus of the media will be centred on 1 of the 156 competitors. You might have heard that late last year it emerged that Tiger Woods had been having some affairs, and that made him a terrible person, and meant that he had betrayed the [...]
The Woods narrative sneeringly continues
Derek Lawrenson of the Daily Mail trod a familiar path in his review of the Masters this week. Tiger Woods may not be golf, but he is in many ways golf coverage. And we can only comment on his fourth place in the competition in the light of something which had absolutely nothing to do [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
The Portsmouth fairytale
Portsmouth are going to Wem-ber-lee, the place where, David James argued last week, it all started to go wrong for the south coast club. They shouldn’t have beaten Spurs, you would have thought - after all, they didn’t in the league a couple of weeks ago - and Portsmouth were subsequently relegated on Saturday. [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
Put simply, there was more sport this weekend than you shake a proverbial stick at, which ranged from excellent to tawdry, and had everything in between. For those events we have missed, we can only apologise.
Better than expected
Ernie Els did a fine job to win his first tournament since 2008 with a round of 66 to win [...]
Tiger is back, and maybe he hasn’t changed
Tiger Woods is going to say some carefully chosen words today, and despite the fact that we know he will doing so almost entirely on his own terms and refusing to answer any questions or do anything that isn’t written on his cue cards [note to self - look remorseful], the media is going to [...]
Piers Morgan doesn’t let facts ruin a belittling
You can rely on Piers Morgan for informed sporting debate. There’s a fairly significant rule change affecting golf at the moment, and Phil Mickelson isn’t best pleased about it. To break it down simply, thanks to Ian Carter at the BBC:
The rule change
For those not familiar, the background, in simple terms, is this: Modern irons have had [...]
Reading still more into the Tiger affairs
The Tiger Woods news just isn’t going away, and of course he’s important enough to merit opinions beyond the sports pages. But people who don’t know a great deal about Tiger the sportsmen are taking him on as subject matter, and that’s producing some… interesting results. Here’s India Knight in the Sunday Times to show [...]
The simplest Tiger Woods explanation
The San Francisco Chronicle offers an intriguing assessment of the Woods scandal to date, with the following opening gambit in their opinion pieces:
The simplest explanation of Tiger Woods’ current predicament had nothing to do with lust, marital betrayal or fallen idols. It described the crafting of an icon and the takeover of sports by corporate advertising. [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend - great turnarounds
England push for victory
It was only three weeks ago this morning that the English cricket team woke up having scraped a draw against the Australians by the very narrowest of margins. Panesar and Anderson had seen out the last eleven overs of a Test in which the hosts were comprehensively outclassed, in which the Australians had [...]
YouTube - A magnificent seven… Tiger moments
There is so much to see on Youtube that it tempts you to give up full-time work and enslave yourself to seeing every last video (barring those ones of babies and kittens doing cute things). But where to begin? Sport without Spin will guide you with a digest of some of our favourite clips.
This week we’re [...]