"Even as Tiger and Yaphe are at the top of their respective games, I don't think either of them gets nearly enough credit for winning with class." I wouldn't bring this up, except that people around here seem to have such short memories, and AFAIK, Andrew has neither apologized nor repented of this: The last time UVA won the CBI championship, there was the beginning of a tradition that the CBI champion got a trip to the UK to play the champ of the Channel Four thing whose name I forget that they write questions for (sorry, Oxford). The year before, Michigan had gone over and trounced them; With the UK's nose bloodied, I'm sure UVA's game would have been an interesting competition. UVA (and especially Andrew) were very displeased with the quality of the tournament that year, and were unsurprisingly vocal about it. Andrew went so far as to publicly renounce the prize he had just won, claiming basically the competition itself was such a farce that the notion of a winner gave it too much legitimacy. After this public renunciationn (which was endorsed by the rest of the championship team, IIRC), CBI chose not to send UVA over the pond. They got some flack for this (they lost some "moral ascendency", as U.S. diplomats say these days), but seeing as this was supposed to be a PR move for them anyway, and seeing as how they apparently had no champion to send now (UVA having officially renounced the title), this was a defensible move. But not to Andrew, who publicly excoriated CBI not only for running a bad tournament, but choosing not to send UVA -- the no-longer-champions by choice -- to England. After all, they had won the tournament (even if UVA had spewed nothing but vitriol about it, and winning the tournament was meaningless by their account, and UVA (under a post from Andrew's account, and written by him AFAIK) had renounced the winning of the tournament), so they should be allowed to go. Wah. Many years have passed since this incident. I have never seen any public inkling that Andrew has reconsidered this move, or shown any remorse for gladly renouncing a tournament win until time came to collect the prize. I have no reason to suspect that he feels in any way different about the matter. And like I said, I wouldn't bring it up, except that now we're comparing Andrew with Tiger Woods. I think Tiger would have handled the situation with -- well, a little more class. phil
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