We apologize that there was no Playhouse Sunday, as The Crew spent the weekend in Texas for a wedding. Our three regular readers were irate, flooding our Twitter feed with two, perhaps three messages demanding to know why they were not given prior notice. Your voices were heard. It was an editorial error in judgment and will not happen again. Sorry.
As for our trip to Texas, the company was good and we had wonderful time, catching up with some old friends we hadn't seen in a while and even making a couple of new ones, too. Still, if The Crew never returns, that'll be entirely too soon. The stereotype of Texans is that they're a bunch of slack-jawed hillbillies who can't help but saying 'y'all' every third word. Based on our limited time there that's not entirely fair -- mostly because they actually are a bunch of slack-jawed hillbillies who can't help but saying 'y'all' every third word.
Nevertheless, The Crew is hotter than an Asian teen right now, coming off yet another Super Play winner with Oregon, who was a 3.5-point dog but won outright at Oregon St. That ran our record to 10-5-1 for the year, good for just over 66 percent. Again, check out the progress of all our picks at Wagerminds.com, which, incidentally, just did a beautiful overhaul of their website.
A couple of thoughts before getting to today's Super Play of the Day...
According to Hank Haney's upcoming book, 'The Big Miss,' Tiger Woods became obsessed with military-style training methods when they worked together, allowing it to interfere with his pursuit of Jack Nicklaus' 18 major championships. Haney says, in fact, Woods seriously considered giving up golf to join the Navy SEALs, with whom he had secretly trained in the past.
In an excerpt published in Golf Digest, Haney writes:
"When I later learned the full truth about the dangerous exercises that Tiger engaged in with the Seals (sic), it caused me to question whether the greatest golfer the game has ever seen severely hampered his chance at surpassing one of the most revered marks in all of sports -- Jack Nicklaus' record [18 major victories] -- because of his fascination with the military."
Maybe Woods had a school-boy infatuation with the SEALs that, if Haney is to be believed, bordered on the eccentric, but the notion that he was actually going to become one is beyond absurd. First of all, it's not a community college: Not everyone who applies is accepted, and considering Tiger had no military experience whatsoever, we'll say his chances of being admitted were only slightly better than Cee Lo, Snooki and the dude who played Eric on "Boy Meets World."
Secondly, even if by some miracle he was allowed into the program, there's very little reason to believe Tiger could have survived the SEALs' enormously grueling, drawn-out training. Only ten percent of those who start them do, according to Wikipedia -- and they, of course, are never ever wrong.
If you compare Tiger to dudes who play golf for a living and have never in their entire adult lives lifted a finger to do any sort of manual labor, yes, he absolutely is in great shape. Though, when compared to someone who as part of their job needs to be able to kill another man with his bare hands it's a different story entirely.
Tiger is a fool if he ever thought it was going to happen. But Haney is even a bigger one if he believed him...
In a surprise to absolutely no one, the Indianapolis Colts released Peyton Manning Wednesday. Manning, who sat out last season after undergoing multiple neck operations, was due a $28 million bonus if he remained on the roster after Thursday, plus a $7.4M salary for the 2012 season.
The situation left Colts owner Jim Irsay no choice, especially considering Indy has the no. 1 pick in the NFL draft next month, when they are expected to take Stanford's Andrew Luck, who is widely thought to be the best quarterback prospect since, well, Manning in 1999.
Irsay, however, insulted everyone's intelligence by saying it was not about money, telling reporters it was personnel decision aimed at rebuilding. That's a lie.
Whenever someone says it's not about the money, especially when that someone runs a business worth nearly a billion dollars, it invariably is about the money. What's more, if Manning made the veteran's minimum and wasn't due a roster bonus, would Irsay still have cut Manning? Probably not. It was entirely a financial decision and him lying about it was offensive.
Whatever the case, we are glad that part of the saga is over, if for no other reason than we can't stand hearing about it. Manning now needs to sign ASAP so we don't have to read the endless bullshit from the media (ESPN's Adam Schefter), who, while trying to cover the story, have reported that every team in NFL is a possible destination for Manning.
Super Play of the Day
Colorado -13
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