‘Taint’ season in sports is here

The “taint” season is upon us.

Every year it’s the same old thing. With the completion of the Super Bowl out in sunny Arizona, the rest of the sports world is now set to forage for itself. The pickings are scarce.

The other night, I wound up watching some classic fight cards, one featuring Evander Holyfield, while the other featured Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. It’s real nice sitting there and knowing what the outcome will be.

Since the writer’s strike out in California, we’ve been hit by a double dose of disaster this year. Now we can watch re-runs of shows that have already been shown, like Holyfield and Frazier. Well, that’s better than watching some of those putrid re-runs that weren’t any good the first time they were shown.

No, it taint football season and it taint baseball season yet so I guess we’ll have to go along with the crowd.

Oh, yes. There was the Pro Bowl which had about as much drawing power as my wife’s electric lint remover. The Pro Bowl runs second to the NBA playoffs in individualism. Everyone is out to make himself look good but I always considered the Super Bowl, as the final end to the NFL season anyhow.

Choice of other sports,
if you are interested

Oh yes. You can watch hockey, soccer, ice skating, and get this one, “poker” and tennis, beach volleyball, skiing and bowling. That’s quite a choice if you’re into that stuff.

Poker? Oh yeah, who ever thought poker was a sport? I always thought it was a gambling game or an iron rod used to stir logs in a fire. What a time-consumer that game is!

This is the time of year that spells despair for a sports enthusiast.

The only saving grace is baseball season that is only several months away now and college basketball and the Final Four.

You could be one of those lucky fans who journey south, or way out west, for the spring exhibition seasons. Some of my friends believe the exhibition games are the way to go. You are close to the field and you can mingle with the players, talk with them and get some autographs while you’re at it.

Loves the way sports
change with seasons

I’m a four-season guy. I love the change and the way sports move with the season. Where else could you see two football teams slugging it out in minus-four degree temperatures like the Packers and the Giants did several weeks ago at frozen and snowy Lambeau Field.

Oh, yes. Don’t forget Kelly Pavlik’s return bout against Jermain Taylor Saturday night in Vegas. If you were lucky enough to have HBO, you could have watched the big bout for $50 smackers. So what am I going to do the rest of today?

I think I’ll settle down in the living room and tune in to either the curling championships or clips of the sumo wrestling finals.

It taint right.

Tiger is just too tough
for the other golfers

Tiger Woods better watch out!

Before long nobody is going to want to go outside and compete with him.

We happened to catch Tiger on television for the finals of the Buick Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, Calif., recently. We thought Tiger may be a little rusty from his long lay-off but that wasn’t the case. He wrecked all of his opposition, building an 11-shot lead at one point. He eventually had to settle for a 1-under-par 71 that gave him an eight-shot victory.

His opposition is hoping that his performance was just a fluke and he’ll drop back to reality before long.

It was Tiger’s most dominant start ever. His putting and chipping were phenomenal as was the rest of his game. The win was the 62nd victory of his career, a conquest that tied Arnold Palmer for most career wins.

Tiger finished at 270 to win his 4th consecutive Buick Invitational, tying a PGA Tour record for consecutive wins in a single tournament. He has since won another one. He has now won six times as a pro at Torrey Pines. To say he likes the course is an understatement and the U.S. Open will be staged there in June.

Better get practicing, boys.