Monday Blogdome: Golf Channel mesmerized by Tiger's Buddhist bracelet

Tiger Woods’ Buddhist Bracelet the new Livestrong band? Tiger Woods spent 600 seconds Sunday taping interviews. Though each interviewer was afforded limited time, they each tried to ask Tiger some of the questions many of us wanted to have answered. Kelly Tilghman of The Golf Channel asked many similar questions and received many similar, scripted answers. The difference to me was that she didn’t follow up as well as Rinaldi, and she also threw out there the biggest softball question of all: Tilghman asked Tiger about a certain bracelet on his wrist. Tiger seized the opportunity to emphasize how he had found religion. In his case, Buddha. [Larry Brown Sports]

* It’s A Good Thing Mel Brooks Didn’t Plan The Vancouver Olympic Closing Ceremonies. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are quite cross with the organizers of the Vancouver Olympic closing ceremonies for depicting them in an unflattering light. Dudley Do-Right and Canadian Bacon were bad enough but now someone has gone too far. [Deuce of Davenport]
* Video: Ohio University ‘Riot’ Street Party Includes Actual Stuffed Bobcat. This might be one of the strangest college novelty items we’ve ever seen. Stuffed bobcat fist pump action doesn’t exactly cross our desks on a daily basis. (1:00 mark for the stuffed cat.) [Busted Coverage]
* Did Hank Greenberg Fail to Pass Babe Ruth’s HR Record Because He Was Jewish? Howard Megdal wrote that, using data collected from Retrosheet.org, statistics indicate that pitchers were avoiding Greenberg at a higher clip late in the 1938 season than any other point in his career, and with a greater disparity than any other slugger in history. Why? Megdal thinks it may have been because Greenberg was Jewish. [The Sporting Blog]
* Lane Kiffin vs. Natalie Gulbis in Sexiest Woman Alive competition. Latest results. [Esquire]
* Crash montage: Starring runaway motorbike. There’s something magical about mentally deficient people and motorcycles. When these two dangerous things come together, it’s as magical as a unicorn getting those deep grass stains out of your baseball pants without using bleach. [With Leather]
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