With golf and and all that sex? He sounds like he's probably in tip top shape.

An amazing athlete who uses an amazing stick...

I though Fed might be more dominant until 2008. If you are going to name an athlete of the decade, Tiger Woods is an appropriate choice.

Weird. I didn't know golfers were considered athletes.

Playboy named him "Man-Whore" of the decade.

With an asterisk for doping

They just named him this so they could get a photo of him with the golf ball sticking out of his ear..

Who did the AP ever award this to in the past??

So Obama gets the Nobel prize-for nothing.

Ben Barfanke gets Time Person of the Year--for phucking up the US economy.

And the AP gives their dopey award to the worst husband in the world!!

Hat Trick!!

Weird. I didn't know golfers were considered athletes.

#4 | Posted by nullifidian at 2009-12-16 05:36 PM

NASCAR drivers are considered "athletes".

Horse Jockeys will be the next "athlete".

Personally, I think Lawn Jockeys are better athletes, with having to hold that light up.

And the AP gives their dopey award to the worst husband in the world!!

Hat Trick!!

#7 | Posted by MURPHY at 2009-12-16 06:05 PM

....based on his performance as an "athlete", Muffy.

Not his personal life.

Athlete of the Century

Husband and father - not so much

Athlete of the Century

Husband and father - not so much

#10 | Posted by Ari at 2009-12-16 06:21 PM

It's "self righteous Wednesday" on the DR!

"And the AP gives their dopey award to the worst husband in the world!!"

I don't recall the award was for Husband of The Year.

I believe it was for athlete of the year and if that's the case, that would narrow down the basis of this award to just his athletic accomplishments, not his personal ones...or therelackof.

Sorry...decade, not year.

The boy can drive em'.

I thought playing 18 holes was difficult.

I thought playing 18 holes was difficult.

#15 | Posted by Ron_Karate at 2009-12-16 06:26 PM

Apparently, keeping it quiet is.

"NASCAR drivers are considered "athletes"."

Well, walking a few hundred yards in a park isn't exactly quite as rigorous as handling a vehicle going 180 mph bumper to bumper for 500 miles with the interior temperature 100 degrees+, now is it.

I didn't know golfers were considered athletes. -- #4 | Posted by nullifidian

Don't get my Russian friends started on baseball players...

Well, walking a few hundred yards in a park isn't exactly quite as rigorous as handling a vehicle going 180 mph bumper to bumper for 500 miles with the interior temperature 100 degrees+, now is it.

until you have done either professionally or even competively then I don't know how you could render judgement on either.

I'll say this though....very few golfer's are the sons and grandsons of former pro golfers.

NASCAR drivers? how many of them are family members? 2nd and 3rd generation.

Golfers may be slightly more athletic than billiard players, though I've heard somewhat persuasive arguments to the contrary.

Federer.

"until you have done either professionally or even competively then I don't know how you could render judgement on either."

Bullshit, Eberly. How can you remotely compare the physical requirements of driving a rocket on wheels for 500 miles with strolling a golf course? That's absurd. Nascar drivers can lose 5 to 10 pounds in sweat in a race. Your average golfer like Tiger would probably pass out after 100 miles. lol

...until you have done either professionally or even competively then I don't know how you could render judgement on either. -- #19 | Posted by eberly

How can you remotely compare the physical requirements of driving a rocket on wheels for 500 miles with strolling a golf course?

I'm not. that is the point. I'm not suggesting that golf is harder than racing.

The "physical" and instinctual requirements are secondary to the mental requirements for both sports anyway IMO.

Any "sport" where this guy -- blog.nj.com -- can be competitive cannot conceivably be considered rigorous.

my point still stands. do both professionally or competitively then report.

what is ironic is that I think the best Athletes are NBA players......and i fucking hate watching it.

Best all around athlete ever, in bed and out of bed.

Bullshit. Chuck Liddell hands down.

#24...I agree that NBA players are best athletes; while still a team sport, no other really moves at such an individual as well as team pace, requiring both and coordinated mental and physical conditioning in periods of time that are ALL action packed... requires one hell of a lot of physical strength as well as simultaneous mind discipline, with a continuing diversity of moving field with which to make a decision in physical and mental movement.. it takes a lot to keep moving up and down that floor for the time periods without breaks and the action that is incurred..
Hands down, NBA has to be the best conditioned..
and, except for the playoffs variably, I could care less for the sport...!!!

Soccer players have it all over NBA players. Baseketball is good, but can't hold a candle to water polo. Baseball is the laziest, fattest sport. Besides bowling, that is.

" for the time periods without breaks " except all those fouls, timeouts, quarter breaks, TV timeouts....

impeccable timing.

"NASCAR drivers are considered "athletes"."

"Well, walking a few hundred yards in a park isn't exactly quite as rigorous as handling a vehicle going 180 mph bumper to bumper for 500 miles with the interior temperature 100 degrees+, now is it."

Interesting argument. So is this NASCAR driver more of an 'athlete' than his pit crew members that toss wheels and fuel cans around like they were bags of popcorn?

Surely those European F1 pussies can't be athletes even though they generally drive faster, right?

I'd award it to Goran Kropp. No NASCAR driver or golfer could do what he did:

Why just climb Everest when you can climb it without supplemental oxygen? Why just climb it without oxygen when you can climb it alone? And why fly to Nepal to climb Everest when you can bicycle all the way there? Apparently, questions such as these occurred to Gran Kropp, a Swede with a taste for adventure and a desire for the Ultimate High. In October 1995, Kropp set out from Sweden with a bicycle, a trailer, and over 200 pounds of equipment. Over the next four months, he cycled some 7,000 miles across Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, and Nepal. By the time he arrived in Kathmandu, Kropp had been shot at, pelted with rocks, and offered the madam's daughter--free of charge--in a Hungarian brothel.

After carrying his own equipment up to Everest Base Camp, Kropp found himself surrounded by other climbers, all waiting for a break in the weather so they could attempt the summit. Many books have been written about that disastrous season on Everest, notably Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Anatoli Boukreev's The Climb. Kroop adds little of substance to the story, engaging mainly in camp gossip about who was sleeping with whom and "outing" climbers who lied about reaching summits. Even Kropp's account of his own climb is somewhat suspenseless--though some readers will be relieved that he doesn't go into too much detail about his physical breakdown. More tiresome is Kropp's clear disdain for climbers who use supplemental oxygen. ("Mount Everest is not 29,028 feet tall if the mountain is scaled by a climber wearing an oxygen mask.") He also despises climbers who "see Everest and other high peaks reduced to trophies kept in a china cabinet"--though his "Ultimate Mountain List" (he's already climbed 16 of the 22) seems a bit like a trophy room itself.

After he finally reached the summit--on his third attempt in under a month--Kropp spent a few weeks recuperating in Kathmandu and then hopped on his bike for the long and rugged ride home. Not satisfied, Kropp is already planning and training for his next adventure, to take place in 2004: sailing from Sweden to Antarctica, skiing to the South Pole, and returning--all solo. That he is only just learning to sail doesn't dissuade him--"I like to jump headfirst into new projects." Ultimate High is proof that he's determined--and crazy--enough to complete them. --Sunny Delaney

Of course, I'd be criticized, and rightly so, for awarding it to someone who did his shit in 1995.

GOLF IS A GAY`S SPORT...AND I DON`T LIKE TIGER WOODS.....

AND I DON`T LIKE TIGER WOODS

"Racist!"

the left

Hey Jeff!

Yo Galugi...

Tiger Woods named Athlete of the Decade by AP?

Fer his golfing right?

Goran Kropp

Very cool.

Be Well.

Fresh news, Elin is gone, filing for divorce! Good for her! I plan on heckling the hell outta tiger if he has teh guts to ever show up for Shell Houston Open again! Good luck, jackass!

LM

Apologize if youse guys already heard this one...

It is near the Christmas break of the school year. The students have turned in all their work and there is really nothing more to do. All the children are restless and the teacher decides to have an early dismissal.

Teacher: "Whoever answers the questions I ask, first and correctly can leave early today."

Little Johnny says to himself "Good, I want to get outta here. I'm smart and will answer the question."

Teacher: "Who said 'Four Score and Seven Years Ago'?"

Before Johnny can open his mouth, Susie says, "Abraham Lincoln."

Teacher: "That's right Susie, you can go home."

Johnny is mad that Susie answered the question first.

Teacher: "Who said 'I Have a Dream'?"

Before Johnny can open his mouth, Mary says, "Martin Luther King."

Teacher: "That's right Mary, you can go."

Johnny is even madder than before.

Teacher: "Who said 'Ask not, what your country can do for you'?"

Before Johnny can open his mouth, Nancy says, "John F. Kennedy."

Teacher: "That's right Nancy, you may also leave."

Johnny is boiling mad that he has not been able to answer to any of the questions.

When the teacher turns her back Johnny says, "I wish these bitches would keep their mouths shut!"

The teacher turns around: "NOW WHO SAID THAT?"

Johnny: "TIGER WOODS. CAN I GO NOW?"

In other news, EA Sports has announced the recall of Tiger Woods 2010 so a new bonus level can be added called "Help Tiger down the driveway." A special edition will be sold with a Wii steering wheel.

New information just out about the Thanksgiving weekend squabble. Apparently the police asked Tiger's wife how many times she hit him. She said, "I don't know exactly but put me down for a 5."

Hey, I made it out of my driveway this morning. Yeah, so now I can finally say that I can outdrive Tiger.

Good news on the domestic front. Tiger's wife says she'll forgive him for his transgressions. But he has to change his name to Cheetah.

Tiger has everything. Beautiful wife and family, best professional golfer, famed, money, connections, and so on and so forth. I don't get it! I mean his wife is so damn BEAUTIFUL. If his wife looks like michelle obama then hell ya, you go hookers.....

Pro golfers are athletes. Some may be a little tubby, but they've got strength where it counts. First-time golfers wake up the next day and hurt in muscles they didn't even know they had. A golf swing is a more technical exercise than say a baseball swing, a free throw, or a field goal kick. The amount of practice and muscle memory required is extraordinary, the margin for error slim.

NASCAR drivers can go fuck themselves. Their cars are set up to turn left and restricted from reaching the limits of the engine or chassis. You could train a monkey to do it, and they do. An F1 car is another story. Those cars MUST be driven right on a knife's edge; too fast and you crash, too slow the tires won't stick and you crash. Touch the car 1 inch away at 212 mph and you crash. They're pulling 5/6 G in the corner, and like a golf swing there is simply no room for error. Those NASCAR muppets bounce off each other, spin out, hit a wall and win the race missing half the parts they started with. If those guys could compete with F1 drivers, they would. Who is the last NASCAR driver to jump the pond and try to win an F1 race? Nobody.

Tiger Woods*

He could change his name to

Tiger Coulds

Horse Jockeys will be the next "athlete".

Personally, I think Lawn Jockeys are better athletes, with having to hold that light up.

#8 | Posted by jerrytarkanian

Actually, I would call a horse jockey an athlete before I called a golfer one. It takes talent and stamina to ride one of those horses. Golf just takes talent and nothing else really. Although, if you are severely out of shape your chances of winning at golf do go down.

Golf, like bowling, is a SKILL, not a sport. While it is true that Tiger is an athlete in great shape, that is incidental to his skill set developed over years of practice.

...what is ironic is that I think the best Athletes are NBA players......

Well, there's something we can agree on! (Wouldn't argue much with the vote for soccer players and the mountain climber, though.)

...and i fucking hate watching it. -- #24 | Posted by eberly

It's one of few sports I really don't understand (Dad played semi-pro baseball and watched a lot of football), and I LOVE watching it. (Although David Stern is killing that -- I like real teams, not that superstar crap.)

any "sport" you can smoke while playing is not a sport.

...what is ironic is that I think the best Athletes are NBA players......

Hitting a round ball with a round bat and hitting it square when the ball is traveling 95mph is the hardest thing in sports to do.

any "sport" you can smoke while playing is not a sport.

#49 | Posted by truthhurts at 2009-12-17 03:51 PM | Reply

I just googled "smoking while playing", and was then going to hit "Google Images" to see what they had, but the first link that came up looks more interesting...

Hitting a round ball with a round bat and hitting it square when the ball is traveling 95mph is the hardest thing in sports to do.

#51 | Posted by everlong at 2009-12-17 03:57 PM | Reply

Hitting a moving puck over 100mph while standing on razor blades and being checked by a 200lb guy moving 15mph sounds pretty tough to me.

Two kids playing tag scars the crap outta me.

--Truthutrs

Ha! You know who I mean.

Hitting a moving puck

Hockey players are probably the best all-'round athletes, definitely the toughest. They play a full contact sport --just as brutal as the NFL-- on a MLB schedule. The hardest working person in sport is likely a hockey team's physical therapist.

But it's a hard comparison to make. I'd hate to casually dismiss the rigors of an NFL cornerback or futball center forward. Both of those positions are more physically demanding than a NBAer, though. It isn't even close.

Blusky,
I was going to comment that certain positions in certain sports are much tougher than others, so it was hard to make blanket statements, but over-all I agree.

On a side note, if you ever catch the behind the scenes footage prior to an NHL game, they all seem to congregate and play soccer. I just saw it again while catching a few minutes of Junior Seau's new horrible show. Almost ever Saturday night on Hockey Night in Canada, they show the same thing. I'm sure it's a coordination/loosening up type thing, but it's always soccer.

any "sport" you can smoke while playing is not a sport.

Zizzou, one of the greatest midfielders in history, would smoke before games. Someone snapped a picture of him in '06 right before he won the World Cup. Sir Bobby Charlton smoked at half-time. Babe Ruth and Dimaggio smoked on the Yankee bench during games.

You saying they aren't athletes? The Babe?

How in the hell can *any* golfer be an "athlete of the decade? If anybody deserved it, it would probably be Lance Armstrong.

Next decade: AP names billiard player "athlete of the decade".

You want dangerous and tough you really need to watch the Eddie Iikau surf contest at Waimea Bay when the surf is pumping 50 foot. I've watched a few and it makes hockey players look like a bunch of pussies in pads.

Next decade: AP names billiard player "athlete of the decade".

#59 | Posted by nullifidian at 2009-12-17 04:55 PM | Reply

As long as it's that asian pool player called "The Black Widow"...grrrrr!

I'm embarrassed I know her name.

but it's always soccer.

Yeah, the tactics seem similar. Both are better in-person too because so much of the strategy takes places off the ball/puck and the camera doesn't pick it up. I wish they would telecast hockey from a wider, higher angle and not follow the puck so much. I think people would appreciate the sport more. Hell, at least understand it better.

MMA, MMA, MMA as far as toughness goes, it's not even close. All around athlete, that's a different story......I would toss it up between football players, hockey players and gymnists(it may look gay, but I challenge anyone to try to do a set of rings).

LM

"As long as it's that asian pool player called "The Black Widow"...grrrrr!"

You talking about Jeanette Lee? Oh, yeah. Definitely the "Hottest Athlete of the Decade".

#64 | Posted by nullifidian

Here's the money shot.

MMA as far as toughness goes

I dunno...

How long is the turnaround between fights? Hockey guys can take a beating, fly cross-country, and do it again the next day. No man can lay an ass whoopin down the way a sheet of ice can, she's a cold, hard bitch.

But I can't agrue too much, I know shit about MMA.

I dunno...

How long is the turnaround between fights? Hockey guys can take a beating, fly cross-country, and do it again the next day. No man can lay an ass whoopin down the way a sheet of ice can, she's a cold, hard bitch.

But I can't agrue too much, I know shit about MMA.

See this guy? He wanted to CONTINUE fighting until the doctor stopped the fight. That's tough...

The DIFFERENCE between TIGER WOODS and SANTA is:
SANTA stops after "three HOS"......