Late Grambling great was tempted to play OU

With apologies to Zach Johnson, the story of the Masters was Tiger Woods' defeat. His bogey-bogey finish Saturday; his ho-hum 72 Sunday. His failure to make a run at the non-descript Iowa flash.

The hidden story was this: We just witnessed one of the greatest golfing achievements in history. By Tiger Woods.

In his last three majors, Tiger has placed first, first and tied for second. In the golf world, that's a phenomenal feat. In the Tiger world, that's unacceptable. He is playing a sport different from all other golfers.

The five best three-major runs in history:

5. Tiger Woods won the 2006 British Open and PGA, then tied for second in the Masters last Sunday;

5. (tie) Phil Mickelson won the 2005 PGA and 2006 Masters, then collapsed on the 18th hole at Winged Foot and fell all the way to a tie for second in the U.S. Open.

4. Arnold Palmer won the Masters and U.S. Open in 1960, then placed second in the British.

3. Ben Hogan won the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open in 1953 and did not enter the PGA.

2. Jack Nicklaus won three straight majors, beginning with the '71 PGA and ending with a second-place finish in the 1972 British Open.

1. Tiger Woods won four straight majors, beginning with the 2000 U.S. Open.

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•To Bob Stoops, for returning the names to jerseys. A good day for the fans.

•To former Southern Nazarene women's coach Craig Wiginton, who is resurrecting his career at NCAA Division II Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, where this season he was named PacWest Conference coach of the year.

•To the Rutgers basketball team; its players say they don't know if they will accept Don Imus' apology. Imus is a goofball, but he's never before disparaged Rutgers or its players, and he was quick to say he screwed up. Rutgers has the moral high ground here, but rejecting apologies is no way to come out looking good.

•To the OU spring game format. How did that scoring system work? No one seemed to care. If you can't split up the squad and play a real game, like Mike Gundy is doing at OSU, just turn off the scoreboard and scrimmage.