THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reports that Woods had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee to repair cartilage damage. He underwent the joint work on Tuesday in Park City, Utah.
Unfortunately, Tiger’s a few months late for Sundance - or really really early, depending on how long he plans on sticking around.
• STEROID NATION comes across strange news of Chinese authorities reportedly testing performance-enhancing drugs on prisoners, and somehow hoping the results can help disqualify Western athletes & give more medals to China.
We’re stuck in the Charlotte airport after missing our connection to Miami last night, so we’re doing all we can to amuse ourselves this morning. Here’s Tiger Woods trying to help, call himself a “dumbass” at The Masters (via FAN IQ):
We know how he feels, after entrusting US Airways and American Airlines to our airport hotel travel schedule the past ten days.
• The FLORIDA TIMES-UNION serves up news that Maria Sharapova is back in championship form, as she wins her first-ever title on clay.
And Maria’s prize - a lovely crystal 7-11 Big Gulp cup, good for one free refill.
• Speaking of a dirtier kind of Clay - with the Sonics having possibly played their last game in Key Arena, NOTTEN THIS LIFE looks to see where most Seattle fans fall in the Five Stages of Grief.
• Darren Rovell of CNBC has an idea who Derrick Rose’s NBA agent will be - and it’s not LeBron’s bud.
I’m a little surprised this isn’t getting more play today, but it appears GOLFWEEK.COM is the only other publication on the Googles that heard what I heard yesterday on hole 15 of the Masters: Tiger Woods shouting “dumbass!” at himself after an errant tee shot.
Sorry, but I just think it’s pretty funny when the best golfer in the world shouts such a word at the most prestigious and uppity event of all. Just to (hopefully) prove I’m not hearing things, here’s what GOLFWEEK said (with video after the jump):
