Perhaps sportsman of the decade but nobody in a sport that requires so little quickness, speed, muscle, stamina, leaping ability, agility, etc should be considered as the world’s best athlete over a ten year period. Golf makes baseball look physically demanding. Its on par with bowling from an athleticism standpoint.
what’s next, Bill Clinton becoming President again?
I suppose if you narrowed the pool of candidates down to clean-livin’, god-fearin’ athletes you’d probably come up with Timmy Goodwin, shortstop for the Ernie’s Garage Hurricanes Little League team in Omaha, Nebraska.
Is that golf or the new Olympic event: Bedroom Sports!
Good thing Elin didn’t bean him with that trophy.
With all due respect and noting the general athleticism which Woods brings to golf, golf is more of a game than anything I’d call an athletic sport. Half the people who play it couldn’t run fifty yards without keeling over dead. I mean, there just isn’t that much of a shortage of serious athletes in the land to choose an “athlete of the year” from...
Tiger-Athlete of the Decade
Bernake-Time Man of the Year
Obama-Nobel Peace Prize
File this under PUIB (Pure Unadulterated Irish Bulls*it)
.. here's a Tiger thread that you haven't been on yet to accuse him of being a juicer.
Just wanted to make sure you didn't miss an opportunity.
“hoisted a trophy on every continent golf is played”
I’ll say.
I’m sure he had a girl in every port. Or he himself was in every port he could....
Despite the scandal, I believe he deserves to be Sportsman of the Decade.
Not sure their was a great choice. Perhaps Micheal Phelps. Not much in football, Peyton Manning. LeBron James? Usain Bolt would have been interesting, but his body of work doesn’t really qualify. Albert Pujols? Roger Federer? Hard to see someone who has been even close to dominate as Tiger.