http://www.sportwithoutspin.com Rumour-busting, chat-spotting, plain-talking sport Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:22:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/07/15/no-let-up-in-the-tiger-narrative/ 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 ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/04/14/the-woods-narrative-sneeringly-continues/ [caption id="attachment_3633" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Still just about there - Audley Harrison"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/04/12/sports-thoughts-from-the-weekend-29/ [caption id="attachment_3501" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Expect cars in a line - Photo Slitz CCA"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/03/15/sports-thoughts-from-the-weekend-26/ [caption id="attachment_3389" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Tiger Woods - Photo Keith Allison CCA"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/02/19/tiger-is-back-and-maybe-he-hasnt-changed/ [caption id="attachment_3342" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Phil Mickelson - Photo mindseye CCA"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/02/09/piers-morgan-doesnt-let-facts-ruin-a-belittling/ [caption id="attachment_3098" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Tiger Woods - Photo Allison1 CCA"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2009/12/16/reading-still-more-into-the-tiger-affairs/ [caption id="attachment_3063" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Tiger drives - Photo Keith Allison CCA"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2009/12/09/the-simplest-tiger-woods-explanation/ [caption id="attachment_2400" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Woods on the green - Photo Mono P CCA"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2009/08/03/sports-thoughts-from-the-weekend-great-turnarounds/ [caption id="attachment_543" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Strong at golf - Tiger Woods - photo MandJ98 CCAL"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2009/04/05/youtube-a-magnificent-seven-tiger-moments/