Short Notes: Tiger (with more info), MLB, Olympics, 2 New NBA Trades (more to come)

By: dwil

Tiger Woods is holding a press conference Friday at 11 A.M.:

“While Tiger feels that what happened is fundamentally a matter between he and his wife, he also recognizes that he has hurt and let down a lot of other people who were close to him,” Mark Steinberg said in an e-mail Wednesday. “He also let down his fans. He wants to begin the process of making amends and that’s what he’s going to discuss.”

However, Steinberg said Woods will not take any questions from a small group of media. “This is not a press conference,” he said.

Woods is to speak at 11 a.m. ET Friday from the clubhouse at the TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., home of the PGA Tour….

Only one camera will be in the room to provide live coverage via satellite. Steinberg said other writers with proper credentials could watch from a hotel ballroom more than a mile away.

This should be interesting. It is, perhaps, the first planned one-way presser with hand chosen members of the media in sports history. Then again, that is the way of Tiger Woods.

Additionally, within the last few weeks sportswriters are finally coming around to look at Tiger Woods as a human. Though they fairly simplistic in their premises, and are in one instance (thanks to an ESPN.com writer, of course) deleterious to Woods’ public perception. Woods is compared with Andre Agassi and it is surmised that he has lost his love for the game he plays.

No. This is not at all true. what athletes develop a distaste for, mostly, is what surrounds the game they play. They begin to see the press for what it is and members of the press for what they are. They begin to understand that very few, if any, of the people around them and the game they play, are solely, or nearly so, concerned about self-interests and not them at all. They are sycophants at best – and perhaps even enemies. These are but two slices of what surrounds sports and athletes, but it is observations like these that athletes must come to grips with before moving on to another level of understanding for what they do and how they do what they do. Once they come to an understanding – and accurately perceive their place withing the environment in which they work – they become even better athletes

Ask Andre Agassi. And in a couple of years, ask Tiger Woods…. oh, and they never lose their love of the game – never.

Tiger Woods: Lessons Not Learned – Again
Explaining Eldrick Woods; Explaining Tiger Woods
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Pitchers and catcher have reported to their various spring training sites. The beginning of the baseball season is but six weeks away. As we enter the 2010 MLB season, the New York Yankees must be considered favorites to once again emerge as the AL representatives in the World Series and the Philadelphia Phillies should once again represent the NL. My sleeper team? The Minnesota Twins.

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Congratulations to U.S. Olympians speedskater Shani Davis (1000 meter Gold Medal), Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn (downhill skiing Gold), and snowboarder Shaun White (snowboard halfpipe Gold Medal). Each dominated their events. Americans Chad Hedrick tooke the Bronze in the 1000 meter Debbie Mancuso won the Bronze in the downhill and Scotty Lago earned a bronze in the halfpipe.

The U.S. leads the medal race with 14 (five Gold, three Silver, and six Bronze)

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In NBA trade news scant hours before the trade deadline the Cleveland Cavaliers acquired Antawn Jamison, who they hope will be the missing front line piece to fit between LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal
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Jamison goes to Cleveland from the Washington Wizards in a three-team trade that sent Drew Gooden to the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Washington Wizards received former Cavs center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, a 2010 first-round draft pick, and the rights to Emir Preldzic, who was selected in the second round of last year’s draft from Cleveland.

The Wizards also received forward Al Thornton from the Los Angeles Clippers while Cleveland also gets guard Sebastian Telfair from the Clips.

Much sought after power forward-center Amare Stoudemire of the Phoenix Suns says the prospects of his being traded anywhere are
“50-50.”

-According to Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix, two more deals are about to go down:

The Milwaukee Bucks have agreed in principle to a trade that would send forwards Hakim Warrick and Joe Alexander to the Chicago Bulls for guard John Salmons, a person with direct knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press. The contracts of Warrick and Alexander both expire at the end of the season, potentially freeing up space for the Bulls to bid for marquee free agents in the offseason. SI.com’s Ian Thomsen confirmed the deal that included Salmons on Wednesday night.

The Houston Rockets have reached an agreement in principle to acquire Sacramento Kings guard Kevin Martin, league sources confirmed to SI.com. The deal will send Martin, along with Sergio Rodriguez, Hilton Armstrong and Kenny Thomas to Houston for McGrady, Carl Landry and Joey Dorsey.

The Kings now are reportedly negotiating with New York to possibly flip McGrady to the Knicks. New York, a source close to McGrady told SI.com, continues to be his No. 1 landing spot.

However, even if a deal with the Knicks cannot be hammered out before Thursday’s 3 p.m. trade deadline, a source said the Rockets-Kings deal would still go through. Sacramento could negotiate a buyout of McGrady’s $22.5 million salary and allow McGrady to sign with New York as a free agent.

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