Word: tigermania
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...this summer, with Tigermania everywhere, the team hopes to teach life a thing or two. The Tigers are being buoyed by a Japanese pitcher who's returned from the New York Yankees. Their manager is one of those Japanese of Korean descent otherwise pushed away from the headlines. Their distinctive rocket-shaped balloons have been exported as far away as Texas. Local politicians disport themselves on TV eating traditional lunches with the dishes served in the shape of the Tigers' logo...
...handle Duval, a quiet man given the nickname "Rock" who rolls into Augusta, Ga., having recently won a minor major, The Players Championship, against a tougher field than he'll face at Augusta. That victory punctuated an altogether astonishing 18-month run of golf. Late in the season of Tigermania, Duval won his first-ever PGA tournament. He won the next week too, and then the next. "We knew [that] once David got going, he'd win a bunch," Davis Love III said last week. "But we never expected a roll like this. You wonder where it's going...
...responding to Darren Kilfara's piece entitled "A Tiger Primer: What Did and Didn't Happen at the Masters" (April 16). While Mr. Kilfara's original premise to temper Tigermania was sound, his attempt to diminish young Mr. Woods' accomplishments was unfounded...
...Because think of it--the nation goes crazy over the greatest upset in the NCAA tourney. The mighty Hoyas fall to the less-than-mighty Tigers. Tigermania in March. Kit Mueller commercials. Bob Scrabis sneakers. Sen. Bill Bradley, ex-Tiger legend, will proclaim on the floor of the Senate how American the NCAA tournament...
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