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April 11, 2012
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
"Sometimes the game of golf is just too difficult to endure with a golf club in your hands." - Bobby Jones
I'm not sure if being a prolific thrower and breaker of clubs makes me more or less qualified to speak to Tiger's behaviour. Rage on the golf course is almost exclusively self-directed and mentally caused. Very few "hot tempered" golfers are losing the rag because they got a bad break; it's almost always some kind of expression of self-loathing, brought on by changing one's mind midway through a swing and the body failing to get the message in time.
To cut through all that - Tiger's in a bad place again, mentally. He seems to have lost (or certainly at the Masters he lost) the ability to reset and start again. The rage is feeding itself. If I didn't know better, I'd say he needed to get laid.
posted by JJ at 10:57 AM on April 11, 2012
Can't improve on this headline: Santos Laguna player poses with small child and the Playboy magazine he just bought.
posted by rcade at 12:26 PM on April 11, 2012
Oh Pelé, you've done it again.
posted by yerfatma at 03:38 PM on April 11, 2012
Just a reminder...there's a Stanley Cup Pickem thread over in the Locker Room, if you haven't submitted picks yet. Round 1 starts tonight, but you still have time to get them in...
posted by MeatSaber at 06:56 PM on April 11, 2012
posted by tommybiden at 08:55 PM on April 11, 2012
Lamar Odom was habitually late to team meetings, practices and shootarounds.
He lived in the W Dallas building, which is 300 feet from the arena.
posted by rcade at 12:00 AM on April 12, 2012
posted by grum@work at 12:58 AM on April 12, 2012
Lamar Odom was habitually late to team meetings, practices and shootarounds.
Who would want him on their team now?
posted by bperk at 08:52 AM on April 12, 2012
Tiger Woods "acted like the south end of a northbound mule," says Paul Azinger.