Wednesday, June 18, 2008

How about that US Open at my beloved Torrey Pines, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers?

Two more
Tiger Woods had three Eagles during the US Open at Torrey Pines; two more Eagles and he could have played “Hotel California.”

Hook ‘em horns, so Fierce
Did anyone catch the sartorial styling of the Friday US Open grouping of Weekly, Jimenez and Katayama? All wore burnt orange shirts, white pants with white hats. They looked like a gay rights parade at the University of Texas:

Cheated
At a magic show in Las Vegas the crowd went nuts when the magician sawed Paris Hilton in half. The guy I feel sorry for? The guy who got stuck with the top half.

Not pretty
On the first hole of the US Open’s final round at Torrey Pines, Tiger had a double bogey. Not just that, but, during that hole, Tiger looked like a drunk guy trying to fold up a map in a wind storm.


Sure signs
A study of gay men’s tendencies revealed gay men tend to be left-handed, have a counterclockwise hair swirl pattern and have larger penises. Another study reveals a guy may be gay if he notices if guys are left-handed, how their hair swirls and how big their junk is.

Yikes
A health study reveals one in four people in New York has herpes. Man, that Barbara Walters has to be stopped.

A health study reveals one in four people in New York has herpes. In fact, in Manhattan, it is easier to catch herpes than it is to catch a cab.

We kid the Badgers
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association has banned high school students from baring their upper body at athletic events. The got tired of the Wisconsin students flashing their huge breasts. And that’s just the guys.

Since you asked:
Talk about magic moments in sports? Tiger’s birdie on 18 on Saturday? And then that amazing sunset? And that slug fest on Monday with a 45-year-old guy against a 32-year-old stud with a bum knee? Thrilling. And this one happened a scant few miles from our back yard. Wow.

It made the Celtics 39-point win over Lakers look like a shuffleboard game.

Forget the argument over who was the greatest golfer of all time. Jack Nicklaus was amazing, but Tiger is in his own league. Tiger is now in the argument over who is the greatest athlete of all time. For my money it comes down to, in rough order, Michael Jordan, Rafer Johnson, Joe Montana, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, Tiger Woods, Babe Ruth, Willy Mays, Jim Brown, Mickey Mantle and Pele. (If I was a hockey fan I would include Wayne Gretzky, but I am not)

Sorry, as great as Daley Thompson was in the Decathlon, no steroid-era Decathletes allowed. That means Bill Toomey to present.

On the morning of that amazing Saturday, I stand up paddleboard surfed at Torrey Pines. Just at the Northern end. While I was out there, a family of SUP’s went by like ducks to check out the Open at Torrey Pines. There was an older dad, his twenty something daughter and her husband – or so it appeared – who cruised by.