The Sri Lankan government has rejected calls for a ceasefire, arguing it would give Tamil Tiger rebels time to regroup.
Well, every time Tiger Woods plays, you have to watch because you're witnessing dominance and you feel as though, well, I've got to be able to tell my children and grandchildren who asked, yes, I saw Tiger Woods.
No one would guess that they had not even buried the unlucky blacksmith, whose brain was eventually picked over by crows, and to whose carcass the tiger would return time and time again, until he had learned something about the taste of man, about the freshness of human meat, which was different now, in snow, than it had been in the heat of summer.
It was dawn by the time the tiger left the city, but he did not go unobserved.
"Tiger's played great golf this year, " said McIlroy of his new Nike stablemate and 14-time major winner Tiger Woods.
At the time, Tiger Woods was tearing through the PGA Tour and for years had been the face of the blockbuster Tiger Woods PGA TOUR videogame from Electronic Arts.
"The first time you play with Tiger you tend to get caught up playing him and trying to play his game, " he said.
But in 2005, on the eve of the 134th version of the oldest championship in golf, the limelight has shifted away from nine-time modern major winner Tiger Woods to a much more ancient creature - the great and unique Golden Bear.
Even the poetic powers of John Updike, a golf fan, would be stretched to conjure up new ways to call Tiger Woods the best golfer of all time.
"If you weren't sure that there was a tiger in front of you, by the time you were sure it was too late, " Lotto observes.
His decision to miss last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational raised eyebrows given his lack of tournament golf, and Tiger Woods' victory allowed the 14-time major winner to regain the world No. 1 spot from his young rival.
Whatever you call it, make sure you call the friendly competition between new endorser Rory McIlroy and long-time face of Nike Golf, Tiger Woods, a smart move.
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At the time, some theorised that a male tiger shark kept at the zoo could have been the father - but the institution's three bonnethead females had none of the bite marks that are usually inflicted on their gender during shark sex.
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Casey was one of the first golfers to talk to Tiger Woods on the practice range since the four-time Masters winner's arrival at the Augusta National.
The truth is that the people of Galina had no idea what they were witnessing, but with that ignorance they crutched their way over to something, a necessary something that justified a shared moment in a time that was otherwise completely inexplicable a tiger that seemed to come from nowhere, a valiant but dead blacksmith, a vanished butcher, a war delayed by the weather.
In the case of Tiger Woods, I think he's the greatest golfer of all time.
Woods carved his name into the record books when in 2001 he clinched a "Tiger Slam" - holding all four major titles at the same time.
"I think it's safe to say that if the tiger really wanted to do harm to this individual he certainly had the time to do it, " Breheny said.
Watson's relationship with Tiger Woods will come under intense scrutiny, having criticized the 14-time major winner's behavior on and off the course following his fall from grace in 2009.
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Muirfield Village was such a demanding test that Tiger Woods had two triple bogeys in the same tournament for the first time since 1997 and wound up with the second-highest tournament score in his career at 8-over 296.
Tiger Woods set off a minor firestorm last month when he fired his long time caddy, Steve Williams, and replaced him with Bryon Bell.
"The one time America has won the Ryder Cup this century came in 2008, when Tiger Woods wasn't playing, " said Colin Montgomerie, who captained Europe to victory in 2010.
The last time that happened at a major was in 2009 at the PGA Championship, when Tiger shockingly lost to Y.
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"Given the circumstances of the past 18 months, working through Tiger's scandal, a new coach and with it a major swing change and Tiger battling through injuries, I am very disappointed to end our very successful partnership at this time, " he added.
So any way you look at it, Tiger is way ahead of the man who has long been the consensus choice for greatest golfer of all time.
"With Tiger, after his bad year he started with a new teacher and then he spent 95% of his time on his new swing and not with his putter, " Pelz said.
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The Tigers gave Rivera, who Leyland said was the best closer of all time, a plaque with pictures of him pitching in Detroit along with dirt from Comerica Park and Tiger Stadium.
My grandfather eventually learned that Mother Vera, sensing he had been gone a long time, had stepped out and, from the stairs of their little house, had seen the tiger taking off across the field.
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