I told you guys this a few weeks back, but maybe this will help you understand just how great Tiger Woods is at the gentleman's game:
The PGA, like many individual athlete sports leagues has rankings that roll over from year-to-year...And Woods wins a lot of tournaments (he's entered two and won two in '08). So, it's not a surprise that he's got a commanding lead on the rest of the golf world. But, the point gap between Tiger and Mickleson (#2) is the same as the gap between Mickleson and #1000in the PGA standings. Seriously.
It's estimated that Woods could take three years off from the game and would still be in the lead.
Mrs. Tiger Woods dominates the other PGA wives off the course as her husband does on the courseGood News...Finally.
My fellow BS writers don't really care at all for racing, let alone open wheel racing. I thoroughly enjoy the IRL and believe Indy is still the best race and racing venue in the world. For years, I've been pleading and begging for Champ Car to stop the charade and fold itself into IRL. Well it looks like it might happen in '08. If you're not a NASCAR guy, you know this can't happen soon-enough. Here's to the possiblity of the IRL returning to the national consciousness as it was before the split.
Super MarioThe State of Basketball in the State of Basketball
For the first time in a long time, when the AP poll comes out Monday morning four college basketball teams from the state of Indiana will be in the top-20.
Butler has been very good all year, IU has been standing around and watching Eric Jordan beat a whole bunch of teams all year, Notre Dame is suddenly a Big East contender, and a youthful Purdue team has grown up a season early.
It kind of reminds me of the days when Phelps, Knight and Keady were prowling the sidelines.
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Tiger will be in the lead for a long time just because of his wife. Yawsa!
You're right about CART/ChampCar and the IRL needing to get back together. The problem is, it's the IRL that's getting the upper hand in that arrangement. The split happened because Tony George has a massive ego, and Tony George has never been a great manager of anything, and now Tony George is getting the upper hand? Jeez. That's disgraceful! (Channeling my inner Howard Cosell)
I once saw someone categorise the IRL as the series where the cars "look like F1 but race like NASCAR," i.e., almost exclusively on oval tracks. One of the great things about CART is that it has been the "ChampCar World Series," and it truly is (was?) a "world series." I almost went to the race in Assen (a motorcycle track in the Netherlands) last year, but it turned out that I left Benelux before the first of September. I ended up back in Spain at that time. Speaking of which, if they continue with the proposed schedule for 2008, they are planning on going to Jerez, and I love that track, although it is a tad difficult to get to. ;-)
I should also point out that CART/ChampCar tried to strike the right balance between ovals and proper road circuits. Now, the four-time defending champion, Sébastien Bourdais, is in F1, although he is with the poorly-managed Toro Rosso team (Red Bull's junior team). Good luck, Sea Bass; you're gonna need it! :-D
Also, ChampCar allowed Paul Stoddart to field a somewhat competitve team with Minardi USA and drivers such as Robert Doornbos, and another of his former drivers, Justin Wilson, had a good year, although he is 6'3". ;-)
If they replicate the ChampCar series in this new one (i.e., mix of ovals and proper circuits with races throughout the world), then I would be fine with that, as long as they get Tony George out of there.
Meh, I'm an F1 fan. I would love to see how Lewis Hamilton bounces back after losing the title by one point in the last race of the season. Especially now that Fernando Alonso is gone. I liked him before this past year, but I was very dissappointed in his comportment during the season, and the fans of Spain proved that they are not F1 fans; rather, they are Alonsomaniacs. Also, you can't forget about defending champ Kimi Räikkönen and Ferrari. I've never been a big fan of the Prancing Horse, but the Red Devils are always a force to be reckoned with.
--Eric
Eric, I gotta tell you, I disagree with about everything you said.
ChampCar is a house of cards that was about to crumble. They're the only race series that had to pay ESPN for TV time. I do understand why an F1 fan would like CC...to me, CC is an F1 wanna be league. And, unlike you, I can't stand F1. There's really no on-track racing...I guess it's neat that preparation is so important in that series, but I've always called F1 racing the fastest parade series in the world.
George isn't going anywhere as he holds the big golden ticket- Indy. He is an arrogant a-hole...and he did start this whole conflict...and he's now ending it with the motivators to get the CC teams over to IRL. The main problem is he nearly burnt to the ground what his family had built because of his ego. One positive, from a CC standpoint, is he's putting up a lot of his own money to make this merger occur...if it goes through.
Names like Bourdais, Junqueira, Rahal, Power, Tagliani, Wilson and others folded in with Castroneves, Andretti, Briscoe, Dixon, Kanaan and the rest might make racing the story and take attention off of Patrick and the attrition to NASCAR by both CC & Indy in the last few seasons.
Hopefully, Allmendinger, Franchitti and Hornish will come back eventually, but it will take a lot of success by the new league to draw them back.
I guess I agree with one thing you said- a circuit with both ovals and road courses is the model they should follow, but I'd argue that model is actually from the old CART circuit. Regardless, it's the right way to go.
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