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I think Michelle Wie’s days are numbered. haha

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More on Michelle Wie’s Ginn Tribute withdrawal

From Golf.com

Wie cited pain in her left wrist, which she broke when she fell jogging in January, as the reason for withdrawing. “It felt good when I was practicing,” she said, “but I kind of tweaked it in the middle of the round.”

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Before Wie teed off on 8, her manager, Greg Nared, approached her, and the two talked briefly. Afterward Wie told an LPGA official, “We’re not going to play anymore.”

It’s not clear whose decision it was to withdraw. During the round Wie wasn’t obviously bothered by her wrist, and she looked surprised when Nared approached her on 8. (Nared didn’t stick around to answer questions after Wie’s press conference.)

Wie says she wasn’t thinking about the LPGA’s 88 rule, which stipulates that any non-LPGA player (Wie was there on a sponsor’s exemption) who doesn’t break 88 in a round is not allowed to finish the tournament or play in any other tournaments for the rest of the season. “I don’t think about shooting 88,” she said. “That’s not what I do.”

Wie didn’t seem to think her disastrous Thursday would have much effect on her ability to play next week at the McDonald’s LPGA Championship in Maryland. “I definitely want to play next week,” said Wie, who has accepted a sponsor’s exemption to play in the PGA’s John Deere Classic in July. “I definitely know what to work on, so I’m excited to get back into it and try to work on it,” she said, declining to elaborate. She added, “It’s definitely going to be better for next week.”

I both think the 88 rule was behind Michelle’s withdrawal, and there is more than a good chance she won’t play in next week’s LPGA. A 88 yesterday would have had serious reprucussions on and off the course for Wie. As to her health, her play was horrible yesterday and her wrists almost certainly the cause. If they are still hurting, Michelle would be wise to take more time off.

That’s just my take on the situation. I’ve been wrong in another recent prediction, and the same could apply here.

For even more about Michelle’s withdrawal, we go to what LPGA tour caddy Larry writes-

Thanks for comin’ On the cart path, into the road, off a car, into a sewer, nothin’ but net! That’s the description I heard of Michelle Wie’s tee ball on the third hole. She took a ten and that was all she wrote. Heard her agent was on the horn getting the scoop on something (as told by someone that was standing next to him) and pulled the plug on her round. Could it have been the 88 rule?

How do you think Ashley Gomes feels about now? I know it’s too much to ask but when will the sponsors wise up and stop being taken for a ride by this troupe of charlatans. The answer is never. She puts asses in the seats and they all secretly hope that her first win will be at their event.

In an attempt to make a covert exit, Michelle bolted out the side door upon leavening hoping to avoid the press and left a locker full of gift baskets and mementos to sign in her wake. She even had her wrist on ice which prompted one cadero to state with a sarcastic inflection “It was the wrong wrist!”

Larry hasn’t been following the news. Michelle has suffered recent injuries to BOTH wrists. It is not a stretch to think both of Michelle’s wrists could have been hurting by the end of yesterday’s play.

I’m seriously beginning to question Larry’s credibility as a source for anything. His animosity towards any player of Korean descent is becoming clearer with every passing day. That makes me question his allegations against Young Kim from April. Larry never replied to my email. By now anything Larry writes on the Korean golfers,(and I’ve been critical in the past about them when deserving. The Wies included.) has to be questioned before being taken as fact.

 

Michelle Wie withdraws from the Ginn Tribute

This was her first tournament since injurying her two wrists-

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. – Michelle Wie withdrew from the Ginn Tribute on Thursday after playing much of the first round with bandaged wrists and shooting 14 over par through 16 holes.

After Wie bogeyed the par-4 seventh, the 17-year-old star from Hawaii told an LPGA tour official: “We’re not going to play anymore.”

Her round included a 10 on the par-5 third hole.

She shook hands with her playing partners on the eighth tee and rode the cart back to the clubhouse with her caddie and parents.

Wie had not played competitive golf since missing the cut at the PGA Tour Sony Open in January.

To me just based on her score, it seems Michelle still has medical issues with her wrists. She would be best advised to stop playing golf and take as a long a rest as is needed to get 100% healthy. Otherwise Michelle’s injuries could have long-term consequences.

I’m betting Michelle doesn’t play the LPGA Championship next week. An event she came close to winning last year.

 

North Korea blames South for lack of progress on joint Olympic team

The two countries hoped to compete together in the 2008 Olympics.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has blamed South Korea for a lack of progress in forming a single team for the 2008 Olympics, urging the South to accept its demand of equal representation on the proposed squad, the North’s state media reported Thursday.

The two Koreas have made little headway on the proposed unified team since their agreement discuss the plan in 2005, mainly due differences on how to compose the team. South Korea has insisted athletes be selected based on performance, while the North demands equal representation.

The two sides last met in February, without setting a new date for further talks.
On Thursday, a spokesman for the North’s Olympic committee said South Korea’s “irrational stubbornness” was holding up the discussions and that the South “has no will to form a unified team.”

“The talks, which were in the final stage of conclusion thanks to our compromise and sincerity, failed to bear fruit,” the unnamed spokesman was quoted as saying by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.

The North’s proposal of equal representation “was a reasonable and realistic measure that will achieve reconciliation and co-operation” between the divided Koreas, the spokesman said.

Maybe the sticking point in the negotiations was the DPRK women’s soccer team’s inability to kick.

Either that or Kim Jong-Il want Michelle Wie to close the deal by coming to Pyongyang. Do it Michelle, As a Korean Olympic spokeswoman you can bring world peace and give golf lessons to Kim at the same time.

No scratch that, Kim can give Michelle lessons.(Sarcastic laughter time) ‘The Great Leader’ shot 38 under par once and made five holes-in-one!

Hat tip- DPRK Studies

 

ESPN – The Good, the Bad and the Boo-Yah

ESPN ombudsman George Solomon has some thoughtful reflections on what’s good and bad at his network.

Some highlights:

  • ESPN needs to better publicly define its role to its audience regarding its business relationships, including ESPN Books publishing former NBA player John Amaechi’s autobiography, “Man in the Middle,” and then over-covering on its news outlets; creating a short-lived reality show on EOE featuring Barry Bonds while trying to cover him as a news subject; and providing Texas Tech basketball coach Bob Knight, another frequent newsmaker, the opportunity for a series on walk-on tryouts. I also have problems with ESPN having a stake in the AFL that seems to have resulted in increased coverage of the league. Same goes for the increased coverage of NASCAR since ESPN landed more races. And do we need ESPN to feature stars such as Carmelo Anthony in ESPN SportsCenter ads, while allegedly covering him? These guys are not family.
  • I would suggest ESPN.com do more editing of its Page 2 columnists — some of whom seem to shoot from the hip for the sole purpose of shooting from the hip. In the same vein, ESPN commentators, including some of the network’s biggest stars on TV and radio, might be more thoughtful and less outrageous and loud in their opinions. I’ve always believed just because someone has the title of commentator or columnist, it doesn’t mean he or she should not be held to the same journalistic standards of fairness and accuracy as everyone else on the ESPN team. I also wonder why some commentators believe viewers are interested in their political views? Also, ESPN editors should be more careful of their staffers claiming exclusive stories when these stories are not always exclusive.
  • ESPN often does very well on big news stories, such as the impact Hurricane Katrina had in the Gulf Coast region regarding sports and the death of Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle in a midtown New York plane crash. However, with time and competitive pressures a factor, the network overreacts to some breaking stories, including the 2005 suspension of Terrell Owens by the Eagles and his so-called “suicide attempt” in Dallas in 2006; Bob Knight tweaking the chin of one of his Texas Tech players this season; and the brawl between the Miami and Florida International college football teams. News executives might consider occasionally slowing down the “on-air” process until more facts become available. They might also want to back off the intensity of ESPN’s coverage of Michelle Wie, the Yankees and the Red Sox.

Points well taken. ESPN has some terrific programming but sometimes over-emphasizes the “E” at the expense of the “SP.”

via Romenesco

 

Kraft Nabisco Championship starts today


That’s my longshot pick for this weekend’s Kraft Nabisco Championship, Grace Park. Grace wouldn’t normally be considered a longshot. She is the 2004 KN Champ plus a former winner of the Vare trophy. When healthy, I doubt there are more than four better players on tour than Grace Park.

However Grace has been injured for much of the last two years. She had her worst season ever in 2006. Kind of reminds of what happened to Se Ri Pak in 2004 and 2005. We all know what happened to the Korean Golf Queen in 2006.

On the plus side for Grace, she had a top 20 last week at the Safeway tournament in Arizona. That included a third round 65. That’s the type of play that could make Grace a winner this weekend.

Other longshot or not obvious picks are(and South Korean golfers) are Shi Hyun Ahn, Jee Young Lee and Seon Hwa Lee. Any of these ladies could be jumping into the pond after Sunday’s final round.

Oh and for the latest stupidity in the Golf MSM, we have who else John Antonini from Golf World magazine who writes of Hee Won Han-

The Kraft Nabisco is the only major a Korean player hasn’t won, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be represented on the leaderboard.

Grace Park is definitely South Korean.

She has lived in the US since age 11, but considers herself Korean. John Antonini is just one more clueless idiot in the golf media.

Doug Ferguson writes about the obvious(or some would say realistic) pick this weekend. No doubt about it, Lorena Ochoa is playing sensational golf and has to be considered the favorite. I’ll stand by my New Year’s pick, Se Ri Pak.

Reminder- Michelle Wie is not playing this week.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Lorena Ochoa finds inspiration just about everywhere she turns in the California desert.

She never came closer to winning a major than one year ago in the Kraft Nabisco Championship. The Mexican star tied an LPGA major record with a 62 in the opening round, only to carelessly throw away shots over the weekend. And despite a birdie-par-eagle finish to force a playoff, she left Mission Hills empty after losing to Karrie Webb in a playoff.

“I didn’t like the feeling of losing, kind of giving the tournament away after a great first round,” she said. advertisement

But the Coachella Valley is filled with positive vibes, too, for it was only five months ago at Bighorn that Ochoa produced perhaps her most significant victory to date.

She trailed Annika Sorenstam by 3 shots going into the final round of the Samsung World Championship on a course where Sorenstam had never lost and was going after a record sixth victory. Despite such daunting odds, the fearless Ochoa fired at flags and closed with a 7-under 65 to win by 2.

It sent Ochoa on her way to winning LPGA Player of the Year and the money title, which had belonged to Sorenstam the past five years. And it allowed her to truly believe that being No. 1 in the world was only a matter of time.

Perhaps the time is now.

Ochoa can move to No. 1 in the women’s world ranking and fill the only hole in her credentials with a victory in the Kraft Nabisco Championship, which starts today at Mission Hills.

There is little to suggest she is not the favorite.

She is coming off a six-victory season that allowed her to sweep all the major awards. And she is coming off a victory last week against a strong field at Superstition Mountain in Gold Canyon, where she birdied four of the last five holes.

“I would say Lorena is playing very, very well,” Sorenstam said. ” . . . So far, and right now, she’s playing some superb golf. So I’m not surprised that the gap is smaller and smaller.”

The Kraft Nabisco is played on the same course every year, and the 101 players make it the smallest field among LPGA majors.

In her fifth year on tour, about the only thing Ochoa, 25, has not achieved is winning a major.

Her first decent chance came two years at Cherry Hills, a grueling test for the 2005 U.S. Women’s Open. Ochoa was among the early starters and was poised to post a score of 3 over – the winning score that day – until she hooked her tee shot on the 18th into the water and stumbled to a quadruple bogey.

 

Michelle Wie to skip LPGA’s first major of 2007

The news doesn’t surprise me.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Michelle Wie will not play the Kraft Nabisco Championship next week while she recovers from a wrist injury, the first LPGA Tour major championship she has missed in two years.

Wie injured her right wrist during a fall last month.

“While the rehabilitation of her wrist is on schedule, Michelle wants to make sure she gives fans everything she can the next time she steps on the course,” said Jesse Derris of Ken Sunshine Consultants, a public relations firm the Wie family has hired to handle press inquiries. “She’s not there yet.”

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Her next appearance is expected to be in Orlando, Fla., the week after the Masters.

I’d be very surprised if Michelle plays in Orlando. My own predicition is she’ll be out till mid-spring at least. Both her wrists are injured, there is no sense exasperating their condition by coming back too soon.

See previously Will Michelle Wie play the LPGA’s first major of 2007?

 

Will Michelle Wie play the LPGA’s first major of 2007?

At present there is some doubt.

Michelle Wie has played every LPGA major the last two years, but her next start is up in the air.

Greg Nared, her agent at the William Morris Agency, said the 17-year-old from Honolulu was starting to chip and putt after injuring her right wrist during a fall last month. Doctors at the time set the recovery at about two months.

Wie turned down an invitation to play next week outside Phoenix, and Nared said he was not sure whether she would play the Kraft Nabisco Championship, which starts April 29 in California. Wie finished one shot out of a playoff at the Nabisco last year.

“We’ll see where it goes,” Nared said. “If she can hit balls next week, we’ll take it from there.”

The Safeway International was moved back one week in the schedule to allow it go back-to-back with the Kraft Nabisco, and that made it more appealing to Wie, who is in her senior year of high school.

That she has turned down the invitation raises speculation that she won’t return from injury at a major championship.

If Michelle needs more time off from her wrist injuries, she should skip the Kraft Nabisco. Coming back too early could make her recovery take longer than needed or even make her wrist worse.

Also note- The Kraft Nabisco starts on March 29 not April 29. Now we can add senility in addition to little or no fact checking to the list of shortcomings for AP’s Doug Ferguson.

 

2007 LPGA Season begins today

The Ladies pro golf tour kicks off in Hawaii.

KAHUKU, Oahu, Hawaii – For the third straight year, the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) begins its official season in the beautiful state of Hawaii. Defending champion Joo Mi Kim is among 138 golfers who will compete from Feb. 15-17 on the Palmer Course at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay.

Kim became a Rolex First-Time Winner at this event last year, after outlasting Lorena Ochoa (after one hole) and Soo Young Moon with two birdies in a two-hole, sudden-death playoff. Kim joins a deep field that includes nine of the top-10 players from the 2006 season-ending LPGA Official Money List.

Leading that charge is Ochoa, who was the 2006 Rolex Player of the Year. The 25-year-old enters her fifth year on tour after coming off the strongest season of her career. Ochoa won six tournaments to claim her first Rolex Player of the Year title, the Vare Trophy and the ADT Official Money List title. With $2,592,872 in season earnings, Ochoa was the second player in LPGA Tour history to surpass the $2 million mark in season earnings. She added six runner-up finishes and ended last season with 20 top-10 finishes in 25 starts.

Ochoa is not the only player looking to continue where she left off. LPGA Tour and World Golf Halls of Fame member Karrie Webb re-emerged as a top player on tour in 2006. The Australian’s back-to-back victories at the Australian Women’s Open (Feb. 1-4) and ANZ Ladies Masters (Feb. 8-11) proved she is back to her winning ways in 2007. Webb won five LPGA tournaments, including her unforgettable second win at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, where she holed a pitching wedge from 116 yards to eagle and force a playoff, which she later won. Webb also became the third player in LPGA history to earn more than $2 million in one season (joining Annika Sorenstam and Ochoa). Webb has accumulated more than $12 million career earnings and has 35 career LPGA Tour wins, which includes seven major championship victories.

Twenty-year-old Julieta Granada is also a player to beat this week. Granada not only became the first player in women’s professional golf to win a $1 million first-place paycheck at the season-ending ADT Championship in November, she also is coming off a victory at the Women’s World Cup of Golf. An unofficial event on the LPGA Tour schedule, she teamed with Celeste Troche to represent Paraguay and the team won by seven strokes over Team USA. Granada set an LPGA Tour record in 2006 for the most money earned by a rookie ($1,633,586), which broke Paula Creamer’s 2005 mark of $1,531,780.

Other players who will challenge for the title this week include 2006 tournament winners Cristie Kerr, Mi Hyun Kim, Juli Inkster, Jeong Jang, Hee-Won Han, Seon Hwa Lee, Se Ri Pak, Brittany Lincicome, Sherri Steinhauer and Meena Lee.

Creamer is eager for her third-career victory while LPGA Tour stars Natalie Gulbis, Morgan Pressel, Brittany Lang and Ai Miyazato look for their first win on the LPGA Tour.

The tournament has an excellent field despite the abscence of both Michelle Wie and Annika Sorenstam. Michelle is out with a wrist injury, Annika is not starting her LPGA season till the tour season till March in Mexico. The Honolulu Advertiser is deluding itself when it says Annika is obligated to play the SBS in 2008. The Swedish golf superstar doesn’t think LPGA golf rules apply to her.

Another player in the field is Kimberly Kim, the defending US Amateur Champion. The 15-year-old some call K2, got a sponsor’s exemption into this week’s field.

What can we expect for the LPGA season? Ron Sirak of Golf World magazine poses some questions.

* Was Lorena Ochoa’s six-win season a breakthrough year or a career year she won’t repeat again?

* Did we see the beginning of the end of Sorenstam as No. 1 in the world last year, or will she bounce back from the distractions of outside business affairs?

* Is Karrie Webb really back, and does she have the desire to be No. 1 in women’s golf once again?

* Who is the best of the Americans, Paula Creamer or Cristie Kerr?

* Is Julieta Granada, No. 4 on the money list last year after winning $1 million at the ADT Championship, the real deal?

* Will Ai Miyazato, a disappointment as a highly touted rookie, get her first LPGA victory this year to go with 14 wins in Japan.

* Which is the real Se Ri Pak, the one who captured the 2006 McDonald’s LPGA Championship or the one who missed five cuts last year?

* Will Natalie Gulbis end her 0-for-135 streak in LPGA events?

* Will Morgan Pressel bounce back from a disappointing rookie year?

* Speaking of rookies, who will be the best this year?

* And will Michelle Wie, who turns 18 on Oct. 11, become the youngest winner in the history of the LPGA by grabbing a title this year?

Here are my answers.

1- Ochoa is for real. Her 69.236 stroke average for 2006 was the second best in LPGA history. 2007 could be a letdown, only because it is tough to win 6 tournaments on this tour with as much competition as there is.

2- Sorenstam will win more often than in 2006 but nothing like her 10-win season of 2005. As to outside influences, heck almost everyone on the men’s or ladies tour has those. It is called a spouse and for some children aka a family.

So save the excuses Ron.

3- Webb is back without question.

4- I have to give it to Kerr based on win records theirs. The Pink Panther trails 8 to 2. Paula had an off 2006, but I expect both these players to win in 2007.

5- Julieta Granada is a good player, but her ADT win bloated her position on the money list. She played well last year, but no one including Sirak put this golfer as one of the top 10 players on tour.

If Granada is top #10, and Webb, Ochoa and Sorenstam are automatics, how do you filter down to six players from the list of Kerr, Creamer, Se Ri Pak, Wie, Jeong Jang, Hee Won Han, Seon Hwa Lee, Morgan Pressel, Natalie Gulbis, Mi Hyun “Peanut” Kim, Juli Inkster, and Ai Miyazato. Sirak was more infatuated with Pressel and Miyazato for the whole of 2006 in regards to who the best rookie was. Lee, who never got much respect, beat all of them out, Granada included, for Rookie of the year. Han and Jang have been #10 money winners or three straight years. The diminutive Peanut won twice last year, beating Gulbis head to head in a playoff and facing down Ochoa and Webb in her other victory. She also has at 7 career wins, more titles than everyone above listed except Pak, Inkster, Sorenstam, Kerr, Ochoa, and Webb. Then there is Wie is top 10 according to the world rankings.

Apparently either Sirak can’t count, has forgotten what he preached for 2006 about the tour’s youth movement, or has a racist side in him for leaving out Jang, Han, Lee and the injured 2004 Vare Trophy winner Grace Park who if healthy is probably a top #5 golfer. I don’t think Sirak is racist,(He is more likely just plain dumb. Sirak once didn’t include Kim Saiki among LPGA winners born in the US. See Kim comes from that foreign country called California.) but I think there is a resentment of the growing Korean influence on the LPGA. There are 45 players from the ROK on tour this year, plus Korean companies sponsor at least three tournaments and South Korea is biggest foreign purchaser of LPGA merchandise. These women can play, the 11 wins by them last year says it all.

The golf media needs to get over it, whether it is resentment or racism. Korea’s influence on the LPGA is here to stay. In addition to the ROK players, there is the coming Korean-American influence led by Wie, K2 and others. Christina Kim, born in California, has two LPGA wins already.

If you’re wondering who my #10 are, here it is but not necessarily in order- Sorenstam, Webb, Ochoa, Pak, Kerr, Wie, Creamer, Gr. Park, Inkster and Han. That is if all players are healthy.

6- Miyazato’s rookie year was only a disappointment to her Japanese fans and the Golf media who over hyped Ai. Her play was actually quite good, despite several Sunday collapses. Miyazato will get her first tour win soon.

7- Pak has injury problems, but there is no question her confidence is back after the LPGA win. Se Ri will be back in the top five money winners this year, and I’m sticking to my New Year’s prediction of her winning the Kraft Nabisco so to complete the Grand Slam.

Se Ri, who will be inducted into the golf Hall of Fame late in 2007, gets the same lack of respect as the rest of her Korean country women. Her fall on the money list from top 3 to barely in the top 100 was barely mentioned in any golf writer’s comebacks of 2006. Webb was almost the universal #1 pick for comeback but will all due respect to Karrie, she never fell out of the top 40 money winners. Don’t get me started on someone’s choice of Nick Faldo either…

Also Se Ri’s winning utility club shot to three inches was every bit as good as Karrie’s hole out with a wedge at the Nabisco. Any golfer or honest golf writer will tell you what was the tougher club to get close to the hole.

8- Gulbis is a good player but overrated because of her calendar girl looks. She couldn’t beat Peanut in a playoff last year despite the boisterous crowds pulling for her. That tells us more about Natalie’s ability than all the media driven hype.

That said, I think Natalie will finally win an LPGA tour event in 2007 but she is not one of the top #10 players on tour. Never will be.

9- See my Miyazato comment. Morgan was also another over hyped rookie but she is a force on tour.

10- Learning from his 2006 failure to consider the Futures tour, Sirak picks Song-Hee Kim for Rookie of the Year. I’ll agree Song-Hee is the favorite but not a cinch for the title.

11- Michelle’s recent wrist injury and poor play tell me she won’t get that first win in 2007. I still believe Michelle will be a superstar. That is if she doesn’t aggravate her wrist injuries into something far worse.

The LPGA took the birthdays out of all the player profiles online and their media guidebook. Maybe the over 40 players didn’t want their birth years listed as earlier than 1968. What woman wants to admit being over 39? Cue the sarcastic laughter.

I think that wraps things up. Oh LPGA fans like wine by the way. Then why haven’t I had a drink in over four years?

Cross Posted to The Florida Masochist and Poliblog’s Deportes

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No brainer- Michelle Wie invited to play at the Kraft Nabisco Championship

The 17-year-old Hawaiian native has been invited to the first major championship of the 2007 LPGA season.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Michelle Wie was offered a sponsor invitation to the Kraft Nabisco Championship on Monday, among seven pros and six amateurs invited to the first LPGA Tour major of the year.

Tournament director Terry Wilcox said Wie will be making her fifth appearance at the Kraft Nabisco, although that was not immediately confirmed by her family.

The 17-year-old from Honolulu missed the cut at the Sony Open while playing with an injured left wrist that was tightly wrapped. She is not expected to play either of the two LPGA Tour events in Hawaii next month.

Wie had a chance to win the Kraft Nabisco last year until her eagle chip went 10 feet by the cup on the par-5 18th, and she missed a birdie putt that would have put her in a playoff with Karrie Webb and Lorena Ochoa. She has played every season since 2003, when she played in the final group at age 13 and tied for ninth.

Michelle also came close to winning the Kraft in 2004 before Grace Park edged out Aree Song.

I still feel Michelle’s attempts to play with the men are playing havoc with her golf game and she should give up the attempts. Her golf swing is no longer smooth but ragged instead and they may be why her wrist is injured. Michelle is trying to overpower the ball in her PGA attempts.

Based on her recent play and the injury, I’ll be surprised if Michelle contends at the Kraft in March.

 
 


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