Friday Afternoon Ramblings…..

The US Open got underway yesterday and half way though todays play the biggest story has got to be that unless something crazy happens Tiger will miss his first cut at a major since turning pro. Tiger is coming off of a nine week layoff after his fathers death and his rust has shown. Phil was able to shoot and even par round yesterday and only trailed the leader by a shot as only one player was able to better par, Colin Montgomerie.

Edmonton was able to come to Raleigh and win game 5 on Wednesday night. The game went into overtime where Edmonton was able to score a short handed goal to send the series back to Edmonton. Game 6 is set for Saturday night.

The Heat have tied up the series with the Maverics at two games a piece after two great performances from Dwyane Wade and Shaq. Wade has finally realized that nobody on the Maverics team can stop him and he’s been taking complete advantage of the fact. The series remains in Miami with this stupid 2-3-2 format for game 5 and then will move back to Dallas for the remaining two possible games.

There have been some great games in the World Cup over the past week but the most important thing is that England has advanced to the second round with their 2-0 win over Trinidad & Tobago. The win wasn’t pretty but it got them through to the elimination round. Another spot of good news was the Rooney finally was able to play again for the first time since breaking his foot. With him on the pitch England is a different and much more effective team.

The Wufpack got their season started last night with a big come from behind win. They put together a run in the second half to get back into the game after being down eight points and with the help of the Grizzlies poor free throw shooting were able to get the game tied with 19 seconds left. Scott Frank got the ball up the floor and found Chris Hasse in the post where he was able to work one on one against his man and scored the winning basket with one second left on the clock. The Grizzlies missed a shot from half court and the Wufpack started the season 1-0.

MJ has become part owner of the Bobcats. I’m not sure what to make of this, I just hope he doesn’t lose the team in a card game.