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Tiger Woods will be back in competitive golf after missing two major tournaments and will play in Akron, Ohio for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. Plagued by leg injuries, Tiger Woods had to withdraw after playing nine holes, from the Players Championships in May.
2011 certainly has been a trying one for the one and only Tiger Woods on the PGA Tour. The end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 started off with Tiger going through a messy divorce then he started off the 2011 season in very poor fashion even missing the cut in a tournament for the first time since 1997.
The NBA playoffs keep trudging along and the big news that has come from the playoffs at this point is the surprising sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers by the Dallas Mavericks. Game 4 was played on Sunday and in that game, the Mavericks put an exclamation point on the sweep with an astounding 122-87 win.
Darlington International Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina has long been known in the NASCAR ranks as the ‘Track To Tough To Tame’. It has been the nemesis of many of the NASCAR greats and when the green flag dropped on Saturday night for the Southern 500 it certainly was singing that same old familiar song. In the end though, it was Reagan Smith being able to hold off season points leader Carl Edwards to gain his first career NASCAR win.
The 137th running of the Kentucky Derby went down on Saturday afternoon and with a record crowd of over 160,000 people in attendance at Churchill Downs in Louisville, they were treated to a race of 19 horses and in the end it was John Velasquez aboard Animal Kingdom who would win the Run For The Roses.
Without a doubt Phil Jackson is one of the best coaches to ever step foot on a basketball court. His 11 World Championships as the head man of the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers is a feat that will probably never be equaled.
The first Saturday in May for the last 137 years has been a time where the best three year old thoroughbred horses in the United States and the world have come together at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky for the Run for the Roses and the Kentucky Derby. The fanfare will be the same this year as a 20 horse field will come together and have the sports world waiting in anticipation to see if there will be a Triple Crown winner. There has not been a Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978 when the jockey on board was Steve Cauthen.
Francisco Liriano is certainly one of the top young pitchers that are in the Major Leagues these days. He is one of the aces on the pitching staff of the Minnesota Twins but before Tuesday night had been struggling to open up the season and was sitting on a 1-4 record with an earned run average over 10.
With the 2011 Draft out of the way for the National Football League, the owners and the players now have to move on and look for a resolution to the collective bargaining agreement which has forced the league to be entangled in a lockout. Last week a federal judge ruled in favor of the players and put an end to the lockout only to have an injunction filed.
The first round of the 2011 NFL Draft was accepted with mixed emotions on Thursday night at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City but once the pomp and circumstance was over, it went down without a hitch minus the boos that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell got when he stepped on to the stage. Friday was supposed to be the day that teams were allowed to meet with players but word has come now that another injunction has been filed in federal court and it could be at least until Monday before full operations can come back to fruition in the league.
