What a weird sport.

The Detroit Tigers swept the A’s in the American League Championship Series.

SI.com – Writers – John Donovan: Tigers turnaround is complete with World Series berth

Update: Tiger will track down Jack, here’s when and where – Sports Illustrated

He hit a wayward shot onto the roof of the Firestone clubhouse in Akron during the Bridgestone Invitational. He bogeyed four holes in a row for the first time since he was a tour rookie 10 years ago. He lost a three-shot lead with three holes to play. He yelled “Fore!” on several occasions. In a playoff with Stewart Cink, Woods missed two of the first three greens in regulation and bogeyed one of the holes. All in all, Woods looked mortal once again after a stretch where he won three tournaments in a row, including two straight major championships, that made him appear nearly invincible once again.

Well, maybe he is invincible. Despite all those travails, Woods won again.

Sports Illustrated – Even when he’s beatable, no one beats Tiger

The greats find a way to win.

Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of all time. And he will never be surpassed.

Like many North Americans, I only tuned into the World Cup in the last half of the final game.

I found it fairly dull. Better than cricket and baseball — but dull. The rules badly need revised. It is unfair to the skilled players to so often decide the outcome by penalty shots or a shoot out.

My main memory of the final is the shocking Zinedane Zidane head-butting of Italian Marco Materazzi. Inexcusable. Any 10-year-old knows not to get provoked by trash talk.

Still, my crowd was mostly cheering for Italy.

Comment:

I agree soccer spends too much time spent between exciting plays, and defending is made too easy. The offside rules are particularly stifling. Basketball is as good as a finesse team sport gets and something that both hockey and soccer can learn from–hockey started to incorporate rules that encourage finesse last season with good results. NA games like football and baseball are unique in that unlike other team sports, individuals have the opportunity to shine built into the rules of the play. You can imagine hockey and soccer teams winning games without great play from stars, but the same cannot be said for baseball and football where quarterbacks and pitchers, sluggers and running backs can and should rule a game altogether.

Rocco, former sports reporter for some podunk rural BC backwater town

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Yup, I am forced to cheer for the Oilers, our traditional rivals. This is a first.

I have been shocked and impressed how well they have done to get to the Stanley Cup finals.

Still, I think they don’t have a chance against the high powered Hurricanes. (Since I’ve been wrong with all my other predictions these play-offs, there’s hope.)

GO OILERS!

Australia, New Zealand & South Africa participate in one of the premiere sports in the Southern Hemisphere — Rugby Union. (Not Rugby League or my personal favourite, Rugby Sevens)

In 2006, the Super 12 became the Super 14, with the Western Force joining from Perth, Australia, and the Central Cheetahs joining from the Free State and Northern Cape Provinces, South Africa.

The finals were predictable. My old home team, the Christchurch Crusaders won in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005 & again in 2006. Congratulations!

Crusaders win pea-souper