Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Winners and losers

Winner: Tom Watson. Watson may not be the greatest golfer who ever lived but he's the greatest golfer ever when age is factored in. Watson won the Senior PGA Tournament this past weekend, becoming the oldest golfer ever on the Champions Tour to win a major title.

Loser: Jim Tressel. Everyone could see this coming--it was just a question of when Tressel would "retire" or be fired from his head coaching job at Ohio State.

Winner: Dan Wheldon. The winner of this year's Indianapolis 500 is proof that you "play to the whistle," or, in this case, drive until you see the checkered flag drop. Wheldon profited from J.R. Hildenbrand's rookie mistake and drove past the turn four crash to win the 100th running of the Indy 500.

Loser: Markieff Morris. One of Kansas' twin towers inserted his foot in his mouth recently when he claimed that Derrick Williams was not worthy of discussion as an NBA top pick. Just...be...quiet.

Winner: Dirk Nowitzki. The Dallas Mavericks star is finally getting his due now that the Mavs are in the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat.

Loser: It would be easy to put Joakim Soria here but let's place a losers' tag on Ned Yost, shall we? The Kansas City Royals manager stuck with Soria as the club's closer for way too long. Last year's All Star performer has now more blown saves prior to the end of May than he had in all of 2010. It's hard to work through your issues--whether mechanics, confidence or all of the above--when you are brought into situations where you either retire the hitters or lose the game...all in the course of one inning.

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