what we heard "Maybe that chipping lesson I got this week paid off in the end." Adam Scott after winning The Players Championsip on a 10-foot putt.
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Padgett, you have a big day tomorrow. Get ready to foul, buddy. Get mentally focused.
The Hearnes Center is like any other building in Missouri. It has no foundation, and if you want to, you can move it to another park.
we are watching the NCAA basketball tournament and the North Carolina-Texas game is about to come on. I just don't know who I want to lose more.
What did the fingers say to the face? Slap. I'm Jeff Graves, bitch.
silly Kentucky and silly Stanford,
when you are a number one seed
you are not suppose to lose in the
second round. I guess you didn't
get the memo.
J. R. Giddens looks like a supersized Lil' Romeo.
Keith Langford, if you are going to dunk you need to make sure to get it in because that just looked ridiculous.
It's pretty bad when Christian Moody can make a dunk and Langford can't.
I know what UAB stands for: You are bad.
A fight to the finish
The University of Kansas rowing team stretched toward the finish line behind the University of Texas. Texas won four of the five races Saturday at Burcham Park.The 1st Novice 8team was the only Kansas team to win a race, with a time of 8:20.0. Kansas will compete against Tulsa and Drake on April 3 in Lawrence.
Pitcher may earn position with Royals
The Associated Press
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Shawn Camp came into the Kansas City Royals spring training as an unheralded, non-roster invite with little chance to make the club.
Camp, however, has pitched so well that he may camp with a spot in the Royals' bullpen.
"I'm just kind of coming out of the woods and hopefully I'll be noticed," Camp said.
In eight games, Camp is 2-0 with one save and a 2.38 earned run average, while walking only one and striking out nine in 111/3 innings.
Camp, 28, has a 25-20 record with a 3.57 ERA in seven minor league seasons
after the San Diego Padres drafted him in the 16th round in 1997 out of George Mason University.
Camp was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in July, 2001 and has spent the past 21/2 seasons pitching for its Class AAA Nashville and Class AA Altoona clubs.
He was in the Pirates' big league camp last spring but not for long.
"I was among the first cuts," Camp said. "I only threw in two games."
Camp became a minor league free agent after the 2003 season and Jin Wong, the Royals director of baseball operations who was a teammate of Camp in a Virginia high school summer league in the mid-1990s, called him.
it took only two days for me to make my decision." Camp said, "I heard a lot of
good things about the Royals. The bond here is something."
Camp is getting a longlook in the Royals' camp and is making a favorable impression.
He has always thrown a good sinker but has shown a slider in spring training that he will need to consistently throw for strikes to keep Major League hitters off balance.
"This kid has pitched well the whole spring." Royals manager Tony Pena said.
In a three-inning scoreless performance Friday against the Milwaukee Brewers, he allowed just one hit and struck out three.
"He had good movement on his fast ball and a good slider," Pena said. "That's the best slider I've seen him have the
whole spring. It was very sharp. It came out of nowhere."
Camp said his slider wasn't as effective earlier in the season.
"It was probably noticeable to hitters and I wasn't able to throw it for strikes," he said. "Now I'm able to throw it behind in the count."
Camp also lost 20 pounds in the offseason, going from 215 to 195, and arrived in great shape.
"Hopefully when the decision is made, I'll be able to go north," Camp said with the Major League club. "Hopefully, I've made a good impression in spring training. If I do go to Omaha (the Royals' Class AAA club), I'll do my best there and hopefully help this team out in the year."
Australian wins Players Championship with bogey putt on 18
The Associated Press
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The guy who swings like Tiger Woods nearly finished like Greg Norman.
Ultimately, all that mattered to Adam Scott yesterday was making a 10-foot bogey putt on the final hole to win The Players Championship, making the 23-year-old Australian the youngest champion of golf's richest tournament.
Scott turned a command performance into a comedy on the treacherous 18th hole at Sawgrass.
from the middle of the fairway, with a two-shot lead, he pulled his approach into the water and looked as if he had thrown it all away.
Needing to make bogey to avoid a playoff with Padraig Harrington, Scott finished with a putt that was true from the time it left his blade. Scott thrust his fist into the air twice, and threw his cap down in relief.
He closed with a 2-under 70, winning $1.44 million from the record $8 million purse.
"Just one of those things that always seems to happen at this place," Scott said. "In the end, it's a chip and a putt away. Maybe that chipping lesson I got this week paid off in the end."
The lesson came from Norman, his idol, who won The Players Championship in record fashion 10 years ago but is known for some ugly collapses in the majors.
The final hole overshadowed an otherwise brilliant performance, as Scott attacked early to build a five-shot lead, made some clutch chips as the lead was dwindling, then made the most important putt of his career.
Scott finished at 12-under 276,and his perks include a five-year exemption on the PGA Tour and a three-year pass to the Masters.
Harrington was not even a factor for most of the warm, sunny day on the TPC at Sawgrass.
All that changed when he tied the back-nine record with a 30, including a birdie-birdie-eagle stretch on his way to a 66.
Kenny Perry and Phil Mickelson each
closed with a 71, and Frank Lickliter had a 72 to tie for third at 280.
The other big winner yesterday was John Daly. Despite closing with an 80 to finish near the bottom of the pack, he got into the Masters by finishing in the top 10 on the PGA Tour money list.
Daly would have been out had Perry finished alone in second, and it appeared that might happen until Harrington made his late surge and Perry faltered.
Jay Haas, a runner-up last year and still going strong at age 50, went birdie-birdie-eagle around the turn and never let up until he was done with a 66. His finish assured him a spot in the field next year.Scott soaked up a big victory in
golf's fifth major.
He won for the second time on the PGA Tour, and sixth time worldwide.
Not only does he swing the club like Woods, he knows how to win from in front.
The young Aussie is 6-1 when he has at least a share of the 54-hole lead.
And while it wasn't pretty at the end, everyone is starting to predict a big future for Scott.
"I think he's technically better than Tiger Woods was at 23," Norman said. "He needs a bit of confidence, a couple of victories under his belt, and he can be doing what Tiger has done in the last three, four, five years. I really believe that. He can eclipse all of us, I guess."
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