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Letter to the sports editor: Tiger needs more praise

Friday, June 21, 2002 | 9 a.m.

Regarding Dean Juipe's column on Tiger Woods: Thanks for the words that most needed saying.

Roger Maltbie and Johnny Miller, I suspect, have sold out to the network. They are duty-bound to try to provoke conflict, even to provoke Woods to anger and, perhaps, a rash sound bite. Among the long list of truly amazing aspects of Mr. Woods' professionalism is his composure when asked stupid questions by people like Maltbie.

There is, of course, an alternative explanation: Woods' brilliance is so great that Maltbie and Miller have been blinded, and they now believe that he literally is playing a game with which they are not familiar.

If that is true, I find it very sad, because Woods lets us know that our own humanity is potentially beautiful, and if we classify him as a superhuman, we lose sight of how much we share with him.

TOM CALLAHAN

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