Mediate A Liar, But That's A "Gentleman's Game" For You

Rocco Mediate is a liar. That's OK -- we've all spurned the truth when it suits our needs. We've all fibbed -- or told one stinking whopper -- either out of desperation, spite, or convenience. But few of us have spoken into a microphone and lied so blatantly as Mediate did yesterday after watching his dream of winning golf's U.S. Open take a severe hit. Mediate was grabbed by the NBC folks, just moments after Tiger Woods sunk a 12-foot birdie putt to force an 18-hole playoff today. And he was asked if he was rooting for Woods to miss the putt, thus making Mediate the champion. "I never root for someone to miss," Mediate fibbed. "You can never root for a guy to miss a putt," he then added -- the stinking whopper. Um, for that kind of purse, that kind of first-place dough -- you bet your Big Bertha you can root for a guy to miss. I know, golf is supposed to be a gentleman's game. It would, therefore, appear to be unseemly to wish ...