Oops. I guess Mike Milbury might have to rethink his characterization of Tiger Woods as "Tiger Wuss," given the acknowledgement that Woods won the U.S. Open despite having a torn anterior cruciate ligament and a double stress fracture.
Milbury had defended hockey's honor by firing back at golf's greatest icon, who had made a joking reference about nobody watching hockey any more. Woods' original comment was kind of surprising because he normally bends over backwards to avoid saying anything remotely negative or controversial about anything. Odd that he would decide to start with hockey.
Hockey commentators in Canada--and Milbury does analysis up there as well as on NBC--took exception. As usual, nobody was as memorably outspoken as the former Islanders coach and GM, who said he personally was going to start calling him Tiger Wuss because he needed two months to recover from arthroscopic knee surgery, as opposed to Penguins forward Ryan Malone, whose face was mashed by a flying puck but returned later the same game.
With the news about Woods' season-ending injury, it seems that maybe he's a little tougher than Mike gave him credit for. But here's hoping Mike doesn't stop being one of the most honest people in sports when it comes to expressing his feelings.
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The way things look for the PGA Tour, golf is going to need someone with Milbury's bombast. TV ratings aren't going to be sky high the rest of the year without Woods.
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The Golf Channel has announced air times for the Commerce Bank Championship at Eisenhower Park's Red Course next week: 1-3 p.m. Friday, June 27, and 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 28 and 29. On the latter two days, a condensed replay will be shown from 10 p.m. to midnight.