Yes sir Tiger Woods wasnt the only big winner at t

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Yes sir Tiger Woods wasnt the only big winner at t

Dont bother judging. Just award the Sports Emmyfor best live sporting event to CBS Sports for its spine-tingling coverage of Tiger Woods Masters victory on Sunday.CBS'coverage of the 43-year old Woods completing what many are callingthe greatest comeback in sports history was riveting television from start to finish.This was the sports telecast of the year.It was the best Masters since 46-year old Jack Nicklaus won his sixth green jacket in 1986. It's also a reminder that no singleathlete drives TV ratings like a healthy Tiger on the prowl.MORE: It was one of those telecastswhere you felt the entire sports Trey Wingenter Jersey world from the biggest superstars to plain old sportsfans were gluedto the TV set at the same moment.Twitter was our cyber sports bar where everybody from Sunday hackers to Tom Brady and Steph Curry weighed in (Twitter says it had 1.4 million tweets Sunday about Woods; 1.8 million on the Masters).Greatest comeback story in sports! Congrats Let me hold one of those 5 jackets one time! Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) On Sunday, we witne sed a perfect storm of ingredients that make sports TV great.You want a flawed but compelling hero? At his peak, Woods was the biggest sports star since Michael Jordan, winning four Masters and 14 total majors and becoming the new golden boy of Madison Avenue. But his career has played out like greek tragedy. A formerly superhuman champion undone by his own arrogance, selfishne s and sexual addictions. After destroyinghis marriage, and nearly his career, Woods enduredan almost biblical plague of back, knee and leg injuries. He lost his health, his game, his fans, his sponsors.Woodsnever stopped fighting, no matter how he humiliated himself on the world stage. He became more humble, more approachable to fans and players. The intimidating golf cyborg became human. Spinal fusion surgery enabled him to miraculously return to tournament form. The middle-aged Woods becamedare we say lovablein a way he never was during his 20s.MORE: The old Tiger never came from behind on the final dayto win a major: He was the ultimate front-runner. But the older and wiser Woods did just that Sunday. He out-dueledBritish Open winner FrancescoMolinari and Tony Finau in the final threesome. He even beat back power-hitting major winners Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson, who modeled their games and weight-lifting routines fromWoods himself.You want greatcoverage? CBS' Jim Nantz proved once again proved he's the perfect announcer to host Masters coverage.Lead analyst Sir Nick Faldo has won three Masters himself,so he can expertly relate the emotional highs and lows of players. CBS' ace-in-the-hole Hunter Renfroe Jersey is Verne Lundquist. The 78-year old broadcast legend has given up his college football and basketball duties, but he still returns every year to his tower on the 16th hole.The CBS team rose to the occasion Sunday. The green jackets at Augusta National Golf Club have already trademarked Nantz's memorable description of the Masters: "A Tradition Unlike Any Other." He memorably set the table for the drama to come Sunday.Theskies are grey. But the air is thick with anticipation; truly a final round unlike any other at Augusta with the early start and groups of three," noted Nantz.You want jangling, final-round nerves? Augusta's deceptively simple 155-yard, Par 3 12th hole continued to be the place where Masters dreams go to die. Like Franmil Reyes Jersey Jordan Spieth, Greg Norman and Tom Weiskopf before them, Molinari, Koepka, Finau and Ian Poulter all found Rae's Creek on No. 12. Woods was the only one whose ballstayed dry. It helped him win the tournament.MORE: After nearly holing his tee shot Saturday, Molinari came up 10 yards shortbefore watching his ball roll backwards into the water. Faldo didn't pull his punches: "That was just so weak. That ball didn't even look like it was flying."As Woods stepped up to his tee shot, CBS cut back to a shellshocked Molinari looking out over the course with a1,000-yard stare.On replay, Faldo didn't say Molinari choked, ala Johnny Miller of NBC Sports. But he came close: "A lovely swing, on-line. But (Molinari's shot)just came out so soft. It didn't have any go in it, that ball."The tension continue to build as Woods battled his younger competitors. Finally, he took the lead and strode up the 18th fairway looking for his fifth green jacket and first in 14 years. As Woods stepped up to the winning putt, Nantz whispered,"Waited for years. Many doubt we'd ever see it.Then as the putt dropped, Nantz exclaimed: "The return to glory!"As the crowd went crazy, Nantz and CBS's producersthen wisely went silent, letting the microphones capture the "Tiger, Tiger, Tiger" chant of the crowd (oops I meant "patrons").We saw Woods hugging his son Charlie, his daughter Samand his mother Kutilda. At the end, CBS also smartly bookended footageof a 21-year old Tigerhugging his late father Earl Woods after winning the '97 Masters with today's video ofWoods hugging his kids.At the end of his long victory walk, we saw a gaggle ofPGA Tour stars (including Bubba Watson in one of his two green jackets)waiting to congratulate him. Why not? Woods has made them all Joey Lucchesi Jersey rich. The best want to compete against the best. If Sunday's any indication, maybe Woods is still the best.The 61-year old Faldo visibly choked up on the air while recalling his first Masters victory 30 years ago. Hokey? Maybe. To me, it said more about the pa sage of time and meaning of a major victory,than some schmaltzy, pre-packaged feature. Once the action moved to the back nine, Faldo noted: "This is the Nerve Zone for the next nine holes."Lundquist was Lundquist:familiar, folksy, fun.He didn't come up with memorablelines similar to "Maybe...Yes Sir!" or "In your life have, you seen anything like that?" to Nicklaus and Woods' previous heroics at Augusta, but he doesn't have to at this point. Until he decides otherwise, Lundquist'spart of the scenery at Augusta, along with the azaleas and Amen Corner. As familar and comforting to viewers as slipping into an oldshoe.Congrats Tiger! What a performance.. Tom Brady (@TomBrady) Was TV coverage flawle s? Nope.Analyst Paul Azinger wiffed on his Sunday Golf Channel prediction. "I just see Molinari going all the way. I'd like to see Finau do it. I'd love to see Tiger do it. I feel its Molinari's day."There also seemed to be an unfortunate affect among on-course announcers to make spuriousexcuses for bad shots and putts by Woods. It wasn't Tiger's fault you see. Instead, it was a gust of wind, a sidlehill lie, spike mark, his badback and so forth.In an effort to get spectators off the coursebefore the storm hit, Augusta also cancelled the traditional outdoor donning of the green jacket. Masters viewers like myself like their tradition. That was Chase Headley Jersey a TV lo sas the ceremony moved to cramped Butler
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