Posted on 12/16/2009 7:26:21 AM PST by AtlasStalled
Tiger Woods has been voted Athlete of the Decade by members of The Associated Press, his 10 years of incomparable golf outweighing nearly three weeks of a salacious sex scandal.
Just like so many of his 64 victories worldwide and 12 majors dating to 2000, it wasn't much of a contest.
Woods received 56 of the 142 votes cast by AP member editors. More than half of the ballots were returned after his Nov. 27 car accident which set off the sensational tales of infidelity that have tarnished Woods' image.
Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor who won the Tour de France six times this decade, finished second with 33 votes, followed by tennis Grand Slam champion Roger Federer with 25 votes.
Woods had more PGA Tour titles in one decade than all but four of golf's greatest players won in their careers.
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DH's are second class citizens in baseball, if it's a player's bread and butter. A lot of players can milk a few extra years out of their career by transitioning to DH later on, but for career DHers--Harold Baines, Edgar Martinez---they might as well have an asterisk next to their name, and good luck getting in the Hall of Fame. Edgar is up for a vote this year. He won't even come close. And rightly so. And he was a SCARY hitter.
My vote is for LeBron James!
aka LBJ, The L-Train, King James. There’s a joke that half Clevelands economy is LeBron James. There’s a kernel of truth to that one. He sure did his part (along with his teammates) to bring Clevelands reputation up a few notches.
Go Cavs!!!
I think they mean “top athlete of the decadent.”
I was very disappointed in Andre coming out admitting that he had used PEDs; IMHO it greatly diminished his accomplishments in my mind, just as it did with B. Bonds breaking Hank's all-time HR record.
As for Roger...what an athlete! You have to admire tennis players...and cyclists like Lance A., given the amount of physical strength and endurance required to succeed in those sports.
Are you sure Lewis is pointing a gun at your head while your
typing?
By his girlfriends.
[When did golf become an actual sport?]
It’s not. Golf is a social activity.
Top POS of all the POS’s.
A trend perhaps:
Barry 0 “wins” the Nobel...
Bernanke “wins” Time’s “Person of the Year”...
Ole Tige “wins” athlete of the decade...
Algore “wins” the Nobel...
Look at many of the Oscar winners over the last decade for Best Film, Actor, Actress, etc.
How can they be taken seriously? These awards aren’t worth the tin or paper they’re made with or printed on.
Well golf could be a workout, if you walked the course and carried your own clubs.
I would agree.
Others that would place higher than Tiger would be Brett Favre and Michael Phelps to name a couple.
I thought table tennis champ Bjorn Hornkenstrul would’ve won. He’s good.
You nailed it. All of these “awards” are a farce.
OJ Simpson came in 2nd
Complete farces.
Well he has been using his woods a lot lately. That can take quite a bit of stamina.
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