Letters to the Editor
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Would Woods be DQ'd?
They'd have sent a search party for Woods half an hour before his tee time.
"What time is the pro-am?"
"What's good for you, Mr. Woods?"
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Ask a horse a question, get a horse response
tangosharkus: Tiger Woods is obviously an athlete, becuase just look at him. He could probably do well in a number of actual sports. He just happens to play golf because of his dad.
Animals are athletes? Does the horse know it's training? Does it know if it got 1st, 2nd, or 3rd (and does it care)? Can it get into the Hooters tent based on bragging about past victories to girls in tight t-shirts? I think the number-one rule for being considered an athlete is sentience. Although that may be asking alot of guys like Daly on most mornings.
Rayon Fog: So sweating off 20lbs of water weight during physical exertion in a hot automobile for 3 hours qualifies as a sport? So all those years driving through Kansas in the backseat of my parents Country Squire station wagon wrestling my little brother on family vacations is now a sport! Yes! Summer Olympics here I come!
Let me just clarify: anything can that can be done by more than one person can be turned into a competition. It's human nature. Hence, televised Scrabble on ESPN 2. And people with extreme athletic ability can compete in things that clearly aren't sports. And billiards? Seriously? Let me add another item to my list of what is not a sport: if you can play a coin-operated version, it's probably not a sport.
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Quick replies
Mikes Pace If Larry Summers were to speak, would you listen? King?
Relevance?
randersontt So King (if you read these comments), since you don't like golf or follow golf or even regard it as a sport (and probably don't understand it either), please never, ever EVER comment on it again in your column. No good can come of it.
And what will you promise me in return.
Hint: I like pie.
It is in my contract that I don't have to write about it, though.
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John Daly DQ'd
Interesting that you write about this after saying that you never write about golf because you don't think golf is a sport and it's not interesting. I hope this your last story about golf.