Here is a complete list of the winners from the 2008 ESPY Awards.  It is always anti-climatic when an award show is filmed several days before it is set to air. To top that off ESPN.com, on their front page, tells everyone who won every single award from last night’s 2008 ESPY Awards. The ESPY’s will air July 20th on ESPN.

Special Awards

• Arthur Ashe Courage Award: John Carlos and Tommie Smith, 1968 Olympic medalists
• Jimmy V Award for Perseverance: Kevin Everett, former Buffalo Bills TE
• Best comeback: Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers

Best in Sport

• Best Female Athlete: Candace Parker, Tennessee Basketball/Los Angeles Sparks
• Best Male Athlete: Tiger Woods, Golf
• Best Moment: “Great Sportsmanship” (Central Washington University’s Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace, Western Oregon University’s Sara Tucholsky)
• Best Team: Boston Celtics
• Best Coach/Manager: Pat Summitt, Tennessee Women’s Basketball
• Best Game: New York Giants over New England Patriots at the Super Bowl
• Best Championship Performance: Tiger Woods, 2008 U.S. Open
• Best Play: New York Giants Eli Manning’s pass to David Tyree at the Super Bowl
• Best Finish: Western Kentucky over Drake in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, winning on a buzzer beater by Ty Rogers
• Best Upset: New York Giants over New England Patriots at the Super Bowl
• Best Breakthrough Athlete: Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings
• Best Record Breaking Performance: Brett Favre, Green Bay Packers
• Best Sports Movie: Semi-Pro
• Best Male College Athlete: Tim Tebow, Florida Football
• Best Female College Athlete: Candace Parker, Tennessee Basketball
• Best Male Athlete With a Disability: Ryan Kocer, Wrestling (Wagner, SD)
• Best Female Athlete With a Disability: Shay Oberg, Softball (Montana State-Billings)
• Best International Male Athlete: Rafael Nadal, Tennis
• Best International Female Athlete: Lorena Ochoa, Golf

Individual Sports

• Best Baseball Player: Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees
• Best NBA Player: Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers
• Best WNBA Player: Lauren Jackson, Seattle Storm
• Best NFL Player: Tom Brady, New England Patriots
• Best NHL Player: Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins
• Best MLS Player: David Beckham, Los Angeles Galaxy
• Best Male Action Sport Athlete: Shaun White, Skateboarding/Snowboarding
• Best Female Action Sport Athlete: Gretchen Bleiler, Snowboarding
• Best Bowler: Norm Duke
• Best Driver: Jimmie Johnson
• Best Fighter: Floyd Mayweather, Boxing
• Best Golfer: Tiger Woods
• Best Jockey: Kent Desormeaux
• Best Outdoor Athlete: Captain Scott Smiley, Mountain Climber
• Best Male Tennis Player: Roger Federer
• Best Female Tennis Player: Maria Sharapova
• Best Track and Field Athlete: Tyson Gay

Tiger Woods hit a dramatic putt on the 18th hole yesterday at Torrey Pines to set up today’s playoff round of 18 holes between Woods and Rocco Mediate, the 158th ranked golfer in the world. I know many are at work and away from a TV this morning so I am going to do my best job to live blog the round hole-by-hole right here.

The round starts at 12:00pm EST/9:00am PST (tee time) on ESPN then moves to NBC after the first two hours.
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Tiger Woods has a lot of ground to catch up if he is going to win this years Masters golf tournament from Augusta, Georgia.  The leader after the first two days is Trevor Immelman who is -8.  He is followed by American Brandt Snedeker who is at -7.  Woods is even at 7 strokes back at -1.  He will tee off at 1:10pm EST on Saturday.

Here is a look at the leader board heading into Saturday morning.

1. -8 Trevor Immelman
2. -7 Brandt Snedeker
3.  -5 Ian Poulter
4. -5 Steve Flesch
5. -5 Phil Mickelson
6. -4 Paul Casey
7. -4 Stephen Ames
8. -3 Aaron Oberholser
9. -3 Mike Weir
10. -3 Stewart Cink
11. -2 Retief Goosen
12. -2 Lee Westwood
13. -1 Tiger Woods
14. -1 Nick Dougherty
15. -1 Robert Karlsson
16. -1 Jim Furyk
17. -1 Vijay Singh
18. -1 J.B. Holmes
19. -1 Sean O’Hair

Golfweek magazine has fired editor Dave Seanor after his decision to run a cover photo of a ‘noose’ in wake of Kelly Tilghman’s ‘lynch’ remarks regarding Tiger Woods.

“Clearly, what Kelly said was inappropriate and unfortunate, and she obviously regrets her choice of words,” Finchem said in a statement. “But we consider Golfweek’s imagery of a swinging noose on its cover to be outrageous and irresponsible. It smacks of tabloid journalism. It was a naked attempt to inflame and keep alive an incident that was heading to an appropriate conclusion.”

Seanor will be replaced by Jeff Babineau as editor.

Tilgman was suspended for two weeks from The Golf Channel for the original remark that started the firestorm.

Kelly Tilghman is in an Olympic size pool of hot water after her comments about young golfers needing to lynch Tiger Woods.  Kelly is the anchor for the Golf  Channel.  She has apologized for the comments and to Wood’s rep.

Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman has made a round of apologies after saying that young golf players should “lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley” as a way to compete with the most dominant player in the sport’s history, ESPN reported Tuesday.

Tilghman made the remarks during Friday’s telecast of the PGA Tour’s opening event at the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

Tilghman does play-by-play for the PGA Tour on the Golf Channel.  She is the first woman to do so.  She played golf for Duke in college.

Even with the apology, I think it will be hard for Kelly to keep her job.

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Elin Nordegren, the wife of golfer Tiger Woods, has won a lawsuit with an Irish magazine after the rag published fake nude pictures of the former model.

An Irish magazine apologised to Tiger Woods’s wife Elin Nordegren Woods on Friday and agreed to pay the former model “substantial” damages after it published fake nude pictures during the 2006 Ryder Cup at the K Club. “The false and deeply offensive article in The Dubliner magazine, with the accompanying photograph of another woman wrongly claimed to be me, caused great personal distress to me and my family,” Nordegren Woods said in a statement.

Financial terms were not disclosed but it is believed that the magazine agreed to pay nearly $200,000 dollars over the course of two years.

Woods and Nordegren wed back in 2004 and have a daughter together.

photo: PEOPLE

Natalie Gulbis (view bikini modeling pics here) and Anna Kournikova play different sports but Gulbis has been compared repeatedly to Kournikova since her debut on the LPGA women’s golf tour.  The comparison is inevitable because both women are super-sexy and talented in their respective sports.

Also, neither has ever won a major tournament until yesterday when Gulbis won the Evian Masters LPGA golf tournament in Evian-Les-Baines, France.

Famous mostly for her looks through five-plus seasons on tour, Gulbis broke through Sunday, winning her first LPGA Tour title at the Evian Masters with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff with Jang Jeong of South Korea on Sunday.

“Obviously it was meant to be for me,” Gulbis said. “Before the playoff, I was very upset at myself because I felt like I had given away this tournament. I thought I needed to get to 7 under to win and I end up at, what, four? Going in today, I never thought that four under would have won this tournament.”

The tall, blond Gulbis has been one of the best-known players on the LPGA tour. She sells a calendar on her Web site featuring shots of her in athletic apparel and swimwear, has a reality show on The Golf Channel and her digitized likeness appears in Tiger Woods’ eponymous video game.

Congrats to Natalie on her first LPGA tour win. Many more are sure to follow. If you all of a sudden have a Natalie Gulbis itch then you can scratch it with a smorgasborg of her sexy pics by clicking here.

Golf great Tiger Woods became a first time father on Monday after his wife Elin gave birth to a baby daughter.  Her name is Sam Alexis.

“Both Elin and Sam are doing well and resting peacefully,” Woods wrote. “We want to thank our doctors and the hospital staff for all their dedicated and hard work. This is truly a special time in our lives and we look forward to introducing Sam to our family and friends over the next few weeks. We thank everyone for their well wishes and continued respect of our privacy.”

Woods said he would miss a major if it meant seeing the birth of his child. Now he won’t have to, but it’s not clear how his upcoming schedule will be affected.

Congrats to Tiger, Elin and their new cub. Watch out LPGA!

Tiger Woods won golf’s PGA Championship on Sunday.  The win was the 12th Major golf championship for Woods which puts him in 2nd place all-time. Jack Nicklaus has the most Majors ever with 18.

Tiger was near perfect on Sunday.  Woods shot a 4 under 68 on Sunday to win by five strokes over fellow American Shaun Micheel.  Luke Donald, who started the day in second, finished tied for third. 

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Most Major Championships
18 — Jack Nicklaus
12 — Tiger Woods
11 — Walter Hagen
9 — Ben Hogan
9 — Gary Player
8 — Tom Watson