Column: Celebration of Tiger Woods as Masters champion more about where he was than where he's going

Welcome to another addition of The Grind where we would have made a parody music video about Tiger Woods years ago, if we knew it would mean he’d win another major. Any podcast karaoke requests before next month's PGA Championship? Anyway, what a freaking week. Did that just really happen? And did I really get a compliment from FIVE FOR FIGHTING for my silly Tiger tribute?
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Looks like we’re going to have to change the lyrics again, John. But seriously, let’s talk Tiger. The man has been intertwined with the phrase “Just do it” for more than two decades, but how the heck did he just do THAT?! Let’s share some laughs—and tears—as we recount one of the most magical moments in sports history. Chances are, we won’t see anything like that again. Sorry, couldn’t help it.
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Tiger Woods: Improbable. Inspirational. Thrilling. Historic. Countless words have been written about Woods’ fifth Masters win in the couple day..

Rocky WidnerIn the field of sports broadcasting, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone as enthusiastic about what they do as Kevin Harlan, (Jim Nantz at Augusta National is a close second). We've pointed this out recently in the past, like the time Harlan called a fan spilling their beer at a Bucks game with the same fervor he displayed in his legendary “WITH NO REGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE!” call of LeBron James' dunk in the 2008 NBA Playoffs.
As good as his commentating of the actual game is though, it's the other moments, the beer spills, the ad reads and the play-by-play of drunk streakers where Harlan really shines. Where some commentators would see a break in the action, Harlan sees a chance to call more action even more aggressively, just like he did on Monday night during Game 2 of the Philadelphia 76ers-Brooklyn Nets first round playoff series. Here's Harlan late in the second quarter reading a promotion for Burger King's new “Angry Whopper”:
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Noah GrahamDown 31 points with 7:31 remaining in the third quarter and staring a 2-0 series deficit to the Golden State Warriors in the teeth, the Los Angeles Clippers made NBA history on Monday night. They didn't roll over and die or take a tactical L to save their legs for the home stand. Instead Patrick Beverly went full doberman, hounding KD until he finally fouled out just to get away from that froth-mouthed maniac. Instead Lou Williams became Kobe Bryant, hitting 150 consecutive fadeaway jumpers to finish with 36 points and 11 assists. Instead, the Clippers came clawing all the way back to win 135-131, capping the single largest comeback in NBA postseason NBA history while Steve Ballmer squirmed like a kindergartener hopped on too much Juicy Juice in his courtside seats.
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After the game, however, it was Lou Williams once more who provided the highlight of the night, celebrating the Clippers' unlikely victory ..

Michael MartinLast Saturday, Cale Makar was finishing up his sophomore season at UMass, a season that ended in crushing defeat in the D-1 Men's Ice Hockey Championship game. Makar and the Minutemen fell to Minnesota-Duluth 3-0, coming up just short of the first men's hockey national title in school history. Makar, who was announced as the winner of the Hobey Baker Award the day before the game, did not tally a point in the loss. Tough way to go out, but it's safe to say he was able to get over it real quickly.
That's because on the very next day, Makar was signed to a three-year entry level contract by the Colorado Avalanche, the team that drafted him in 2017 with the fourth overall pick. Rather than try to work his way up to the NHL, Makar kept his commitment to UMass, playing two seasons before signing with the Avs on Sunday and forgoing his final two years of college.
That decision proved to be a prudent one on Monday, when Makar was thrust into the middle of a h..

People say that the hardest thing to do in sports is to hit a baseball, an argument that strengthens by the year in the new MLB as pitchers throw harder and harder in favor of locating their pitches. I'd actually argue that simply stepping in the batter's box to face these guys is the hardest part, or at least the most frightening. You ever see Jordan Hicks throw a two-seamer? You couldn't pay me to stand in the box for that.
Same goes for this 99-mph fastball with movement from Yu Darvish on Monday night that's currently making the social media rounds. It's certainly not the first 99-mph fastball and it won't be the last, but what we do know is that it may be the only one you'll ever see that could double as a weapon of mass destruction. That's because Darvish's pitch didn't just hurt and temporarily injure the batter Lewis Brinson, it also nearly took down the ump and Darvish's catcher Wilson Contreras. Watch as Yu treats these t..

When Tiger Woods clinched his fifth Masters title, he also helped a Wisconsin man cash on one of the biggest wagers in golf history

A bettor who risked $85,000 on Tiger Woods winning the Masters is now more than a million dollars richer

Wisconsin man's wager on Tiger earns him more than $1.2M

Kevin C. CoxAUGUSTA, GEORGIA – APRIL 14: (Sequence frame 6 of 12) Tiger Woods of the United States celebrates after making his putt on the 18th green to win the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on April 14, 2019 in Augusta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)If the back nine at Augusta National on Sunday (re) taught us anything, it's that this is Tiger Woods' world, we're just living in it. With an 14-year chasm between green jackets, however, it's safe to say said world has changed a lot since the Tiger last waltzed into Butler Cabin a Masters champion. How much exactly? Well, let's take a stroll down Magnolia Memory Lane, all the way back to 2005 where trucker hats dotted the standard-definition landscape, the president was still a reality TV star, and the man they call Big Cat just notched number nine into the old black belt. Perhaps then—with a little help from Brangelina, of course—we can finally put number 15 in perspective.
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