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Here's Mike Lupica and Bob Ryan.

I'm Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News.

I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN and we welcome you to the Thursday edition

of a sports reporter's podcast. Our great friend and colleague, Mitch Album, is off

embarrassing us once again. He said his orphanage in Haiti. Mitch is a story onto himself,

but he is in Haiti and he will be back next week. Ah, the story is obvious,

the lead story for us, the lead story in sports. The shocking developments of early morning two days

ago when we discovered that Tiger Woods had been in a very serious automobile accident.

And thank God he survived and will survive, but it's got a long road back.

And Mike, what was your first thought?

Well, my first thought was we're getting another news bulletin out of Southern California

like that could be very bad the way we did with Kobe Brian.

I can remember that Sunday afternoon, Bob, and Zach Lupica lives in Southern California.

He called me and he said, Dad, there's a really bad story out here about Kobe.

And then, of course, it turned out to be true.

And then we saw the pictures of the car when we knew that he was on his

way to the hospital and he hadn't been killed in the crash. And the car looked like a NASCAR car.

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