It’s too bad that all of sports talking heads and its gambling bracket junkies are so wrapped up in whining about those pathetically annoying “snubbed” teams (and you’re the No. 1 crybabies this year, Virginia Tech Hokies). For all this mind-numbing NCAA Tournament talk (scientific studies have shown listening to Digger Phelps knocks off five IQ points a minute) obscures the continuation of the greatest story in sports history.

That of course is Tiger Woods’ undefeated 2008 season.

This fall when Tiger is wrapping up this unprecedented feat of brilliance, walking off the green in the last FedEx Cup event having won every single tournament he entered in 08, people will be talking about that 25-foot birdie putt and hat slam in the Bay Hill today. But on the day it actually happened, it’s doomed to get the kind of play a WNBA game typically rightfully receives.

We’re talking Arizona State! Arizona State, a college basketball team that’s about as remarkable as a budget motel’s toilet paper, gets prime billing?

Please, the only reason anyone cares about who’s in and out of the NCAA Tournament is because of gambling. And 100 years from now everyone will recognize it as they look at this ridiculous overhype.

But Tiger’s 08 season will only grow and grow in mythic proportions as the decades roll on. Again, this is the greatest single season in all of sports - every sport, every age - and it’s playing out before your eyes.

Normally, this would be the point where I give WorldGolf.com’s William K. Wolfrum props for being the first to see the perfection Tiger was planning. But K.’s gone off the deep end of self love with yet another blog only about … well, himself.

Now I know what Michael Vick’s agent must have felt like.

It’s my job to promote you, K. When you do it yourself, it only makes you look as cheap as Eliot Spitzer’s call girl. OK, she was really sort of expensive. You’re more like a Hugh Grant Hollywood Boulevard pick-up special.

Why must you cheapen yourself?

Do you really have as little self respect as those Hokie fans? Yes, you came close to Carolina, VT whine squad. But you lost every single freaking big game you played. Enjoy the NIT. Your rightful landing spot. Hope Morgan State beats you.

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