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MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I don't want it to be as good. That was never the intent, I want it to be better."
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
—Tiger Woods on his desired level of play in comparison to his dominance early in his career. Huffingtonpost.com
Tiger Words is the only player in PGA
Tour history to amass more than
$100 million in career earnings.
espn.com
Q. Tiger Woods has won 14 career major championships. Who is the only player who has won more?
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
A: Jack Nicklaus, 18
— Pgatour.com
THE MORNING BREW Tiger Woods works toward vindication
It's the 18th green at Pebble Beach, and you need a birdie to win. The 35-foot putt seems daunting; slightly downhill and a large sway from right to left. But what seems impossible is fixed with a click of the L1-button: Tiger Vision. And just like that, you sink your championship-winning roll with ease.
But that's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. And you've run out of pizza rolls.
The real Tiger Woods has played exceptional golf recently, winning five of his last 9 tournaments including this weekend's WGC - Cadillac Championship. This is arguably the best run Woods has had since his hiatus from the sport in 2009-10.
Everyone asks, "Is Tiger back?" Longevity in the sport is certainly possible, but Woods is 37 years old. He is much older than the new generation of golfers. Sure, Tiger can still mash with
one nest of them - he's in the top 10 in driving distance - but the advantages of strength and youth are gone. The group has caught up with the leader and now he has to rely on other aspects of his game.
Woods still famously crushes par 5's and ranks number one in the world in 2013 in scoring average. Along with the physical limitations, Woods must deal with the rise of new competition such as Rory McLloy and Webb Simpson.
No doubt Woods can still hang with the young guns, but his dominance of the 2000s may be a thing of the past.
So, perhaps it's unfair to ask if Tiger is back. That might not be the right question.
Maybe the right words are, "Is he relevant again?" even though he always has been. Whether it's in the tee box or the tabloids. Woods has had our attention consistently for nearly the duration of our lifetime.
Woods jisu wants to return to golf's top spot. Forget about the publicity, he needs none of that. He's had it, both good and bad. The ultimate vindication for one of the greatest athletes of our time will be, simply, to become great again.
His comeback story isn't what is important to him. Tiger's furious competitiveness is already known — too well. It's about wearing red on Sundays.
1's about getting back to the days where those young 20-somethings fold under the pressure from playing in Tiger's group.
Stili, Woods hasn't won a major championship since the scandal in 2009. His last major win was the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.
Woods may be on the cusp of returning to his own desired form. But no one critiques Tiger harder than Tiger, and only major championships will suffice.
Maybe the only way we can determine if Tiger is back, is if he says, "I am back."
This week in athletics
Edited by Elise Reuter
Monday
Women's Basketball
Big 12 Championship
TBA
Dallas, Texas
Women's Swimming
NCAA Zone Diving Championships
All Day
Houston, Texas
Tuesday
Women's Swimming
NCAA Zone Diving Champs-
pionships
All Day
Houston, Texas
Wednesday
Baseball
Jackson State
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Women's Swimming
NCAA Zone Diving Cham-
pionships
All Day
Houston, Texas
Thursday
Men's Basketball
Big 12 Championship
2 p.m.
Kansas City, Mo.
Friday
Softball
Fresno State University
12 p.m.
Sacramento, Calif.
Softball
St Marys College
4 p.m.
Sacramento, Calif.
TEXAS STATE
Saturday
Softball
Texas State
11 a.m.
Sacramento, Calif.
Baseball
TCU
6:30 p.m.
Fort Worth, Texas
Women's Rowing Louisville Invite All Day Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Sunday
Softball
Sacramento State
1 p.m.
Sacramento, Calif.
Baseball
TCU
1 p.m.
Fort Worth, Texas
MEN'S BASKETBALL
'Women's Rowing
Louisville Invite
All Day
Oak Ridge, Tenn.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Creighton beats Wichita State to win tournament title
tournament title.
ST. LOUIS — Jahnens Manigat scored a season-best 16 points and hit a layup with 11.5 seconds to go that gave top-seeded Creighton just enough to beat Wichita State 68-65 for its second straight Missouri Valley Conference
Reserve Ethan Wragge hit five 3-pointers for 15 points to help the Bluejays overcome an off day from star Doug McDermott, who missed six of his first seven shots Sunday and was held to 14 points — 10 below his average
Malcolm Armstead scored
a season-high 28 points with nine rebounds for second-seeded Wichita State (26-8). But he missed a potential tying 3-pointer just before the buzzer while well-guarded by McDermott.
McDermott was still honored as the tournament MVP. He had scored 41 points eight
days earlier in Creighton's regular-season, title-clinching victory against the Shockers.
Wichita State shot just 34 percent and has dropped three of five. Cleanthony Early, who averages 14 points off the bench, was held to two points.
Wichita State trailed by 13 with just over five minutes to
go. The Shockers shaved the deficit to a point with a 10-0 run capped by Armstead's fourth 3-pointer with 43 seconds remaining. Manigat's layup put the Bluejays back up by three.
Creighton was 11 for 24 from 3-point range without its best long-range threat makin his shots. McDermott, now tied with Wraggie for the team lead with 74 this season, was 0 for 3.
The Bluejays have won 12 MVC tournament championships, seven more than any other school, and won in consecutive years for the first time since 2002-03. Wichita State
has not won the title since 1987.
Creighton missed its first eight shots and Wichita State its first nine, and the teams were a combined 2 for 25 before settling down. McDermott picked up two fouls in the first half that limited him to 13 minutes.
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