None of these are long enough to warrant their own post, yet too long for Twitter. Plus, it's Friday and I worry what the upcoming time change will do to me, so I need to start dealing with it now. Good God, people, we're jumping an hour into the future!
-I find it strange that Tiger Woods would hire former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer to work with him on his return strategy. Never mind Fleischer's political career, cause that's a different arena. But, the two sports clients he has had since entering the private sector as a PR man have been Mark McGwire, who's attempt to address his steroid accusations has been labelled somewhere between 'clumsy' and 'inadequate' and the BCS system, which everyone hates every year. Not what I would call a track record of success.
-As for Woods' comeback plan, I hope he plays sometime before the Masters and I don't care if it's at Bay Hill or the Tavistock Cup. The best way for Woods to get people to focus on golf and put the rest of his stuff on the backburner is to play well his first time out and he's not going to play well if the first event back is at Augusta National. If he goes out and fires off a round of 73 or worse, then everyone will have nothing golf-related to fill the hour with. But, if he goes off with a 63 then everyone will talk about a brilliant round with so many distractions. Then it's "Oh, Tiger Woods is so mentally tough," and "Isn't that a performance for the ages?"
-On a scale of 1 - 10, 1 being tame and 10 being vile, the video of Mike Leach "yelling" at his players should rank around a -11. It may be the most understated video of a football coach trying to motivate a team I have ever seen. I had a track coach in high school who would get more fired up than Leach was in that video. I'm actually shocked he got fired for off the field issues and not because his team just wasn't very well coached.
-Make no mistake about, the Notre Dame basketball team isn't better without Luke Harangody. It's simply an issue of leadership. The 3rd and 4th best players on the team (Abromaitis and Hansbrough) were transfer players and never played last season and Scott was on the verge of leaving the program. As a result, they probably were never vocal about getting the ball and deferred too much to Harangody when he was on the floor. When he got hurt they had to step up and play much better, which they did. It's not they they play better because Harangody was no longer there, it's because they no longer had him to lean on and everyone had to pull their own weight. I'm really impressed with the run they have been on lately. Not only have they played their way into the NCAAs, but they may even make it out of the first round this year.
-The Raiders are considered the frontrunners to land Terrell Owens. Apparently, their new strategy is to just make JaMarcus Russell quit and therefore not have to pay him the rest of his deal. Though, I guess on some level, Owens on the Raiders just makes sense. It is, after all, the land of misfit toys out there.
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