One for One in 2008

From the PGA Tour website:

Tiger Woods joined some elite company Sunday, even though he might as well have been playing alone.

A 10-foot birdie on the 18th gave Woods a 1-under 71 and an eight-shot victory, the ninth time in his career that he has won by at least that many. It earned him a fourth straight title at Torrey Pines, a third straight PGA TOUR victory and congratulations from the King.
It was his 62nd career victory, tying him with Arnold Palmer for fourth place on the all-time PGA TOUR victory list.
"I'm sure that there are many, many more coming in the future," Palmer said. "There isn't any question about that."
He won't get an argument from Woods. Having won for the fifth time in his last six starts on the PGA TOUR, Woods said he was at another level -- even better than 2000 -- and still had room for improvement.
Better than 2000, when he won nine times and three straight majors?
"Yeah," Woods said without hesitation.
Woods finished at 19-under 269 to win the Buick Invitational for the fourth consecutive year, tying a PGA TOUR record for consecutive wins in a single tournament. Woods is the only player to own such a streak at two events, having also won four in a row at Bay Hill.
He won for the fifth time in his last six starts. Throw in his Target World Challenge at the end of the year, and Woods has won his last three tournaments by a combined 23 shots.
"I'm starting to get better," he said. "I'm hitting shots that I never could hit before, even in 2000. People think, 'Yeah, you played great.' But I made everything. I'm actually hitting the ball better now than I did during that stretch."
Ryuji Imada won the B-flight. He matched the best score of the final round with a 67 and was the runner-up.
"My goal going into today was to finish second," Imada said. "That's almost like winning the golf tournament to me."
Woods returns to Torrey Pines in June for the U.S. Open, and if this week was any indication, it could be another long week for his peers. The world's No. 1 player now has won six times as a pro at Torrey Pines, and his comment earlier this month that the Grand Slam is "easily within reason" looked every bit of that.
"What he's going to do is screw the U.S. Open up for everyone else," Fred Couples said. "If he had shot 10 or 11 under, the USGA would have said, 'Well, maybe we have it in the right spot.' Now, they may have to regroup a little."
Then again, it might not matter.
The 71 ended Woods' streak of 14 consecutive rounds in the 60s, dating to the second round of the Deutsche Bank Championship. He has finished no worse than second since the British Open in July, when he tied for 12th at Carnoustie.
Woods planned to leave Sunday night for the Dubai Desert Classic, and he likely won't return to the PGA TOUR until the end of February at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship. Next in line on the career list is Ben Hogan with 64 victories, and each win moves Woods closer to the record 82 won by Sam Snead.
"You'd like to think it's surprising, but it's not," Charles Howell III said. "It's Tiger."

Woods is 6-of-12 in his PGA TOUR debuts, but he has never won with such ease. He went back to work after the holidays, and it was as if last year never ended.
It was a powerful message to the rest of the PGA TOUR, even if it was unintentional.
"They can look at it however they want to look at it," Woods said. "I know that I'm trying to win and trying to improve and trying to get better."
The only surprise was the weather, a pleasant one at that.
The forecast was for heavy rain overnight and into Sunday, with the possibility of a Monday finish. But the clouds cleared as Woods was warming up, and he played the front nine under brilliant blue skies. Only on the back nine did clouds return and temperatures plunge. He closed out his victory under a mixture of rain and clouds, and smile that showed all was right in his world.
"He's just much better," said Couples, who posted his first top-10 finish since the 2006 Masters. "It's fun to see. I've been on TOUR for 28 years, and I've never seen this stuff."
Rory Sabbatini also had a 67 to tie for third with Stewark Cink (73).
"I'd say this is the best I've seen him play," Cink said. "The last couple days, off the tee, the control he had was just really very impressive. The Tiger that we saw a year and two years ago, hitting it sort of all over the place, I think that's a thing of the past. He's got it geared down and he came out and played really well."
Justin Leonard closed with a 72 to finish alone in fifth, 12 shots behind. Phil Mickelson also made his 2008 debut this week, but was slowed by illness and was never a factor. He shot 71 on Sunday and tied for sixth with Durant (75).
"Nobody thought too much about winning," Mickelson said.

Also as a side note the guy who finished second used to play for Georgia.

Vox Populi

As I was sitting at work today, I was reading the Savannah Morning News when I found this in the Vox Populi section:

"Sports are entertainment. Some musicians do illegal drugs to enhance their performances, so why not athletes?"

Thoughts?

Interesting

Cadets end losing streak with win against Saints

Benedictine's rifle team defeated St. Vincent's 1,089 to 1,065 on Tuesday night, ending a four-match losing streak to the Saints.
The top shooter was St. Vincent's freshman Courtney Linton, who edged BC junior Mateus Feitosa, 284 to 283.
Benedictine 1,089, St. Vincent's 1,065
BC (Mateus Feitosa 99 prone, 89 standing, 95 kneeling - 283 total; Cedric Gaines 98, 86, 89 - 273; Beau Kalan 98, 82, 90 - 270; Ray Buttimer 93, 82, 88 - 263).
St. Vincent's (Courtney Linton 97, 92, 95 - 284; Natalie Padron 96, 89, 84 - 269; Allanah Gallagher 92, 82, 90 - 265; Colleen Sheffield 87, 78, 83 - 248).

I just remembered as we were riding home from Shreveport, Joe started talking about Bobby Knight and all his great quotes. He said there was a video on YouTube of his Top 10 quotes. I went and looked and found it, so here it is:

Savannah High School student bury the 'N' word

From Savannahnow

Mourners signed a funeral register and filed past a white and gold casket at the Savannah High auditorium Tuesday morning. They came to bury the 'N' word. Following the example of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s national convention, at which the slur was buried in Detroit last summer, teacher and WEAS radio announcer Lester L’eck White and his Savannah High School Gents HBO Club organized the ceremony. Club members had already begun breaking their own N-word habits. Tyrique Montgomery Jr., the club’s vice pClub members had already begun breaking their own N-word habits. Tyrique Montgomery Jr., the club’s vice president, has spent the last two months saying “my brother” where he might have used the N-word before.The club, which calls itself a student brotherhood organization, expanded its message school-wide in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 79th birthday Tuesday.

Not sure if yall rember Tyrique Montgomery Jr. but he was your average Afr0 American BC student in that he played football (running back if I rember right) and left after a few short months. It's a shame he left BC because I would have loved to hear what the Spanky's crew (The Cannons, Curldawger, and CW3 Carl-when they let him come) would have to say if a Cadet inspired by the NAACP buried the "N" word on campus. I think we can all agree that the Spanky's crew would have an interesting take if this was to happen.

Top Five Moments

This is a few weeks late but anyway here is are the top five moments of the trip.

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3. Listening to Vince repeat "I just want to get some" for 13 hours and after failing in his attempt watching him openly stare at our waitress at hooters.

2. Finding Bob sleeping/passed out in my car after helping himself to several liberal servings of Evan Williams.

1. Sitting directly behing Nate Edwards truly made the trip worth it. I would drive 33 hours with Vince at that to sit behind any guy who says Bear Bryant and Alabama football helped him find God and then spent $3500 to tatoo The Bear to his back. Whether it was listening to him yell "pound them like a 2 dollar whore" or simply "fuckin hit them" and then proceeding to agressively make out with his girlfriend after every single Bama first down this guy was a treat to watch and listen to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7KdbvJUOL4&eurl=http://deepsouthsports.blogspot.com/

hayden panettiere

Another question and answer. Without doing any research does anyone know what movie this fine young lady (who is now of legal age I might add) played in when she was a kid? Hint: a few quotes from the movie which is Pat's favorite:whose your daddy-strong side, weak side-I ain't gonna help that monkey.

McFadden Got Cuffs Instead of "That Wood"

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Heisman Trophy runner-up Darren McFadden was handcuffed by police and then released without charges after being involved in a "pretty rowdy scene" at a piano bar early Thursday.
Arkansas' All-America running back and at least four others were at the downtown bar, called Ernie Biggs, when a disturbance broke out shortly after midnight, police Lt. Terry Hastings said. A bouncer was hit in the face as he was trying to get the group to leave, Hastings said. A police report did not specify who hit the bouncer.
"There was a whole bunch of people there," Hastings said. "They were inside and it spilled out into the street."
Outside, McFadden was handcuffed by a police officer "because he was agitated and was provoking aggressive behavior inciting the incident," according to the police report.
"We handcuffed him for a few minutes because he was rowdy," Hastings said.
McFadden, who was the only person handcuffed, was released after he calmed down. Hastings said it was routine procedure to handcuff a person to gain control of a situation.
Thursday evening before an appearance at the Little Rock Touchdown Club, where he was to be honored with an award, McFadden declined comment, through a university spokesman.
McFadden's mother, Mini Muhammad, said her son was trying to protect his younger brother, Daryl.
"He wasn't the one that was fighting. It was his little brother -- someone had jumped on him," Muhammad said. "He was agitated because his brother had a bloody nose.
"Darren was not fighting -- please make that be known," she added.
Hastings said bar employee Brant Hankins was advised that he could pursue charges against the person who hit him. The police report classified the incident as misdemeanor battery.
In the summer of 2006 in a fight outside another Little Rock club, McFadden severely injured his toe, but recovered in time to play in the Razorbacks' season opener.
McFadden, who also finished second in the 2006 Heisman voting, holds Arkansas' career and single-season rushing records. The junior has yet to announce whether he will forgo his senior year and enter the NFL draft.
The disturbance will be investigated by state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents once the ABC office receives the police report, said agency director Carl Kirkland. Ernie Biggs is a private club that serves alcohol but not food. State law does not allow a private club to admit anyone under 21 if the business does not serve food.
The Little Rock bar also allows smoking, and state law allows smoking in only certain establishments, but does not allow those businesses to admit anyone under 21.
Ed Barham, a spokesman for the state Health Department, which enforces the smoking ban, said the agency will look into the disturbance after hearing about it through the media. He said if it appears the club violated the law, the agency will refer the matter to the state Board of Health.
There was no response to a message left on an answering machine at the club Thursday afternoon.
Hankins said Thursday he had no comment on the incident or on McFadden's involvement.

The Streak Continues

I thought yall would get a laugh out of this.

SSU Basketball

As I was watching Sportscenter this morning, highlights from the Savannah State-Kansas State basketball game came on. Savannah State's Men's Basketball team set two NCAA records last night. Savannah State set records for fewest points and worst field goal percentage in a half in the shot-clock era, shooting 4.3 percent while being outscored 48-4 in the second half of an 85-25 loss to Kansas State. At least they missed out on the all time record for fewest points in a half which is held by Noth Carolina when they didn't score a single point in a game against Duke in 1979. The Tigers hit 1 free throw and 1 three pointer to get the 4 points. This isn't the first time the Tigers have been blown out by 60 points. Back in 2005 they lost to Oregon 83-23.