March 25, 2010
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<So Tiger Woods…>
is back. According to ESPN : Last week he announced his plans to return from a 4½-month hiatus from competitive golf at next month’s Masters Tournament, which will take place from April 8 to 11 (Story here)
So people at Intrade were really good at betting and forecasting – the chance that Tiger will come back before the end of April was already over 80% in January (entry here)
I do not play golf, and never watch a full golf match – it is too boring and more important too static to call it a sports. Unless the speed is over 200km/hour, how can you convince me that people are playing sports when they sit in the golf car and not even walking?
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Another issue that I may come back to later, is that at least in both soccer and basketball field, no greater player has turned himself into a great coach.
The most famous and successful coaches in NBA : Phil Jackson, Pat Raliey, Larry Brown. They were very mediocre players in NBA. On the other hand, we have great players that become a bust in their lives as coaches : Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, Kevin Mchale (perhaps the likely exception is Lenny Wilkens, one of the most 50 greatest NBA players, but with over 1000 wins as a NBA coach)
It is more or less the same in the soccer field.
