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Woods voted top athlete of the decade
AP ^ | 12/16/09 | AP

Posted on 12/16/2009 7:26:21 AM PST by AtlasStalled

Tiger Woods has been voted Athlete of the Decade by members of The Associated Press, his 10 years of incomparable golf outweighing nearly three weeks of a salacious sex scandal.

Just like so many of his 64 victories worldwide and 12 majors dating to 2000, it wasn't much of a contest.

Woods received 56 of the 142 votes cast by AP member editors. More than half of the ballots were returned after his Nov. 27 car accident which set off the sensational tales of infidelity that have tarnished Woods' image.

Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor who won the Tour de France six times this decade, finished second with 33 votes, followed by tennis Grand Slam champion Roger Federer with 25 votes.

Woods had more PGA Tour titles in one decade than all but four of golf's greatest players won in their careers.

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To: Sans-Culotte
Also, do you American League fans who disparage golf consider the DH to be an athlete? All he does is swing a bat.

DH's are second class citizens in baseball, if it's a player's bread and butter. A lot of players can milk a few extra years out of their career by transitioning to DH later on, but for career DHers--Harold Baines, Edgar Martinez---they might as well have an asterisk next to their name, and good luck getting in the Hall of Fame. Edgar is up for a vote this year. He won't even come close. And rightly so. And he was a SCARY hitter.

41 posted on 12/16/2009 7:46:22 AM PST by Huck (The Constitution is an outrageous insult to the men who fought the Revolution." -Patrick Henry)
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To: Canedawg

42 posted on 12/16/2009 7:46:55 AM PST by mcmuffin (Will American patriots and freedom prevail?)
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To: AtlasStalled

My vote is for LeBron James!

aka LBJ, The L-Train, King James. There’s a joke that half Clevelands economy is LeBron James. There’s a kernel of truth to that one. He sure did his part (along with his teammates) to bring Clevelands reputation up a few notches.

Go Cavs!!!


43 posted on 12/16/2009 7:46:58 AM PST by uncitizen
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To: AtlasStalled

I think they mean “top athlete of the decadent.”


44 posted on 12/16/2009 7:47:38 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Lion Cheetah Tiger.)
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To: AtlasStalled
I think very highly of Roger Federer, and would be shocked and very disappointed to learn if he were using steriods. I'd also like to think that, aside from being at the top of their respective sports, he and Tiger have nothing in common. (I think this so called "friendship" between them has been more media-driven than in actuality. Unless Roger is a weasle, lying snake, screwing any and everything he can get his hands on, I don't see what, if anything, they actually have in common at all.)

I was very disappointed in Andre coming out admitting that he had used PEDs; IMHO it greatly diminished his accomplishments in my mind, just as it did with B. Bonds breaking Hank's all-time HR record.

As for Roger...what an athlete! You have to admire tennis players...and cyclists like Lance A., given the amount of physical strength and endurance required to succeed in those sports.

45 posted on 12/16/2009 7:48:21 AM PST by nfldgirl
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46 posted on 12/16/2009 7:48:34 AM PST by mcmuffin (Will American patriots and freedom prevail?)
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To: Huck

Are you sure Lewis is pointing a gun at your head while your
typing?


47 posted on 12/16/2009 7:49:17 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: AtlasStalled
Woods voted top athlete of the decade

By his girlfriends.

48 posted on 12/16/2009 7:52:31 AM PST by SouthTexas (God Bless our Fort Hood Troops)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

[When did golf become an actual sport?]

It’s not. Golf is a social activity.


49 posted on 12/16/2009 7:52:51 AM PST by KansasGirl
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To: AtlasStalled

Top POS of all the POS’s.


50 posted on 12/16/2009 7:53:32 AM PST by bmwcyle (Free the Navy Seals)
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To: AtlasStalled

A trend perhaps:

Barry 0 “wins” the Nobel...

Bernanke “wins” Time’s “Person of the Year”...

Ole Tige “wins” athlete of the decade...

Algore “wins” the Nobel...

Look at many of the Oscar winners over the last decade for Best Film, Actor, Actress, etc.

How can they be taken seriously? These awards aren’t worth the tin or paper they’re made with or printed on.


51 posted on 12/16/2009 7:54:11 AM PST by GOPsterinMA ("Henceforth, you shall be known as...'Nobel Obama'".)
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To: rwfromkansas
Bowling gives more of a workout.

Well golf could be a workout, if you walked the course and carried your own clubs.

52 posted on 12/16/2009 7:55:31 AM PST by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: xzins
...The world’s best athlete the last decade is probably Lance Armstrong...

I would agree.

Others that would place higher than Tiger would be Brett Favre and Michael Phelps to name a couple.

53 posted on 12/16/2009 7:57:14 AM PST by FReepaholic (If ignorance ain't bliss I don't know what is.)
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To: AtlasStalled

I thought table tennis champ Bjorn Hornkenstrul would’ve won. He’s good.


54 posted on 12/16/2009 7:58:28 AM PST by Mashood
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To: GOPsterinMA

You nailed it. All of these “awards” are a farce.


55 posted on 12/16/2009 7:58:42 AM PST by mplsconservative
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To: AtlasStalled

OJ Simpson came in 2nd


56 posted on 12/16/2009 8:00:08 AM PST by GeronL (Join the Palin Beer Summit Putsch!!)
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To: AtlasStalled

Carson Palmer with Shillelagh, 2002
57 posted on 12/16/2009 8:01:38 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: AtlasStalled
One of the athletes I've been very impressed with is Bryan Clay. He won silver in the Decathlon in Athens and gold in Beijing. He seems to be a class act and for all the events he competes in, I'd say he's an excellent athlete.
58 posted on 12/16/2009 8:03:23 AM PST by Crolis ("Nemo me impune lacessit!" - "No one provokes me with impunity!")
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To: mplsconservative

Complete farces.


59 posted on 12/16/2009 8:04:23 AM PST by GOPsterinMA ("Henceforth, you shall be known as...'Nobel Obama'".)
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To: AtlasStalled

Well he has been using his woods a lot lately. That can take quite a bit of stamina.


60 posted on 12/16/2009 8:05:07 AM PST by soycd
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