No offense whatsoever to the great Willis Reed, but what Tiger did last weekend was more impressive than what Willis did on May 8, 1970.
Woods won the U.S. Open on one leg. To match Reed, all he would have had to do is hit his first two shots on the first hole Thursday, then let Walt Frazier take over from there.
Discuss among yourselves.
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What about Bob Baun of the Toronto Maple Leafs? He scored the winning goal in overtime of Game 6 of the 1964 Stanley Cup Finals on a broken ankle. The old Classic Sports channel showed that game once in glorious black and white. You don't have to worry about ESPN Classic showing it since they know people want poker, American Gladiatots and rodeo.
Hockey players are in another category. They don't even count.
I caught the second game of a doubleheader Wednesday with a dislocated left shoulder and possibly broken left pinkie finger after sliding into third base late in Game 1. I was out. But we won.
Neil: Why is ESPN Classic so bad? Have you ever done a story or blog post on this?
It's been addressed a few times. They actually don't have the rights to re-air a lot of things ESPN or ABC shows live once a limited post-game window expires. The leagues and college conferences reserve the content for their own channels/websites.
It's widely thought on other boards/blogs that ESPN will rebrand Classic in the next year or two depending on a few things which may or may not happen.
It's expected that ESPN Classic will be rebranded into a soccer/Olympic sports channel and that could happen as early as September. ESPN is making a very serious bid for the English Premier League. It would put EPL games on the rebranded ESPN Classic if it outbids Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV for the rights.
See my post about the NFL Network. It might address these ESPN Classic questions.