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Weekend Wake Up: Tebow’s Flu (?), Tiger Tears It Up, A Night of Lines in MLB, Vick’s QB Quandary

Sep 26, 2009, 1:45 PM UTC

This Saturday is a day of questions. I think I have answers.â†µâ†µCan Flu Fell Tebow, Gators? The Independent Florida Alligator is reporting that Tim Tebow is suffering from flu-like symptoms, and, along with Major Wright and other unnamed players, made the Gators’ trip to Lexington in a second plane. (ESPN indicates that the three sick players are Tebow, Wright, and Joe Haden; SEC blogger Chris Low is now reporting the trio suffers from a “respiratory-related illness,” not the flu.) A week after a slew of skill players were waylaid by illness, can the Gators survive their Heisman-winning helmsman being slowed once by sickness and again by the weather?â†µ

â†µâ†µAnswer: Yeah, probably. The Gators haven’t been as good as they are right now for all of the 22 straight times they’ve topped Kentucky, and will probably rely on punishing defense and a powerful ground game to grind one out.â†µ

â†µâ†µAnyone Hear Tiger’s Roar? The best golfer on the planet this year has been Tiger Woods, by nearly every metric but his own, major-centric one. Making him win a tournament to prove it just seems superfluous. Woods shot a two-under 68 at the Tour Championship to take sole possession of the lead and position himself to win the FedEx Cup. But will anyone care?â†µ

â†µâ†µAnswer: The tournament ends on an NFL Sunday. The only people who care are the ones who have worked out the FedEx Cup standings on their abacuses.â†µ

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â†µWasn't Last Night in Baseball Awesome? The games may not be really critical outside of the AL Central, where the Twins won and the Tigers lost to cut the gap to two. But the lines are pretty: Alex Rodriguez went 3-3 and came a triple shy of the cycle, stole three bases and walked twice: That's the portrait of complete hitting. And Roy Halladay, Carlos Zambrano, and Kevin Correia all threw shutouts; it's odd that Javier Vasquez' seven-K three-hitter and a rather pedestrian Tim Lincecum outing (seven innings, two earned, six hits) should take a backseat, but, for a night, they must.â†µ

â†µâ†µAnswer: Yes, last night in baseball was awesome, if you like numbers. And no one but me cares.â†µ

â†µâ†µWhen Will Michael Vick Start at QB? In this snippet of a Sal Paolantonio-Michael Vick tete-a-tete, Vick tells Paolantonio that a starting role would have been the “ideal” position for him coming out of prison and off suspension. Disregarding his delusions about his physical condition, doesn’t it seem like Vick thinks he’s destined for more than Wildcatting? And wouldn’t that be a difficult fit for a team that already has three quarterbacks (Donovan McNabb, Kevin Kolb, Jeff Garcia) on the roster suit up and play games for them, including two in the playoffs?â†µ

â†µâ†µAnswer: Vick will start next year, when his conditioning and his passing catch up to his confidence. But he’ll start for the Eagles. Remember: McNabb didn’t get the extension he wanted this offseason.â†µ

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