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This must have been what it felt like to watch Ali, to watch Ruth, to watch that transcendent athlete that made you sit in your seat and watch in awe. I remember what it felt like to watch Michael Jordan. Jordan did things that made me get up and go in the front yard and try the things he did. He moved me; he moved us to try to be him. This is Tiger Woods.

He is the guy that right before our very eyes is moving us. He has us sitting in our seat watching in anticipation of his next miracle shot. I think we have been waiting for another athlete to take the mantle and move us like Jordan moved us. You know how Mike would make one of the reverse lay-ups where it seemed like he hung in the air for days, seemingly deciding when he would release yet another gravity defying shot? This is Tiger Woods.

Eagles out of the sand; putting shots from 50 feet out; 300 yard drives with one knee. This is Tiger Woods. The things that we want to see again that Mike had was the determination, the will, the concentration, the doing the impossible....THIS...is Tiger Woods.

As great as Lebron is, he doesn't move us like Tiger. As great as Kobe is, he doesn't move you like Tiger does. Tiger Woods is now placing himself on the Mount Rushmore of legendary athletes. He is now there along with Jordan, Ali, Gretzky, and Ruth. What I witnessed this weekend and today was a man so brilliant that he moves me. THIS...my friends, is Tiger Woods.

He is so good that we will tell our kids about him; and they will tell their kids about him. Memories of his performances will be etched in stone. He has long ago been so great that he is more than a golfer. He is bigger than the sport he plays. When the US Open began, I thought that Tiger's winning this event was near impossible, but then I remembered....THIS...is Tiger Woods.

I'm not a big golf fan, but nothing is more fun in sports than watching the best at the peak of their game. In what may have been, by far, the most difficult tournament victory in his career, Tiger once again separated himself from every golfer in the world. Woods beat Rocco Mediate, the 158th-ranked golfer in the world prior to the tournament, at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego.

The most amazing aspect of the whole week was that Tiger was playing on a bum knee. You could even see him grimace on almost every drive he hit. I have never seen someone look some dominant while limping to a finish. At one point on the weekend, golf analyst Roger Maltbie asked Tiger if the pain in his left knee was getting any worse. "Yes it is," he said with a big smile.

There's absolutely no point in debating the greatness that is Tiger Woods anymore. If we weren't past that point already, Tiger took us past it in one magical week.