Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Josh Scobee must be very confident in his golf game, based on a challenge he issued to Tiger Woods.
Woods announced Wednesday that he was stepping away from play on the PGA Tour because his game is "not acceptable" to compete in tournaments and said he would return when he thinks it is.
In an effort to help Woods get his game right, and perhaps earn some notariety in the process, Scobee issued a challenge to Woods on Wednesday via Twitter.
"Tiger- meet me at San Jose Country Club tomorrow," Scobee tweeted. "$100,000 a hole. You get 2 a side."
The best golfer in the world over the past 20 years getting four strokes from an NFL kicker who's reportedly a scratch golfer? That seems fair, doesn't it?
As crazy as it may sound, Karen Crouse of the New York Times wrote the challenge is exactly the type of thing Woods should do.
"For the foreseeable future, Woods should play gold the way he did as a child," Crouse wrote. "It is not remotely the same as suggesting he swing the way he did then.
"Every day he should play at least 18 holes, preferably with friends, and let his imagination run loose. He should throw balls into the woods and try to curve shots around trees.
"He should purposely hit from the fairway of one hole to the green of another -- surely, no one at his home course, the Medalist, would mind -- to infuse his routine with fun."
Sour grapes?
At least one person wasn't sympathetic to the fate of the Jackie Robinson West team from Chicago that was stripped of its Little League United States championship title Wednesday.
Former major league pitcher Mark Mulder, who pitched for the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals during a nine-year career, grew up in South Holland, Ill., and played against Jackie Robinson West about 25 years ago.
"JRW little league has been cheating and doing things the wrong way since I played them as a kid," Mulder tweeted Wednesday. "Sad that those kids are taught that's ok.
"Good chance the people running it now played for them when I was little."
Signs of spring
Despite record snowfall totals that have hit the area this month, New Englanders saw a sign of spring Thursday when the Boston Red Sox equipment truck was packed and paraded down Yawkey Way for the annual run to Fort Myers, Fla., for spring training.
Fans refer to it as Truck Day.
"I think it just reflects the passion and energy and enthusiasm that the fans have," Red Sox executive vice president Charles Steinberg told The Boston Globe. "They want to come out on a gray day with snow on the ground and snow falling to celebrate the berth of spring."
Red Sox chief operating officer Sam Kennedy admitted there's added pressure on the team with the New England Patriots Super Bowl victory.
"Any time another Boston team gets it done the way we have nine times in the last decade or so there's a lot of pressure," Kennedy said. "And a lot of excitement too. It got me fired up for the season."
Sports quiz
Where did Josh Scobee play college football?
Answer
Louisiana Tech
Sports on 02/13/2015