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It's been a pretty horrible year for Alex Rodriguez, but after seeing the way he's handled himself in light of the steroid scandal and reading Selena Roberts' book, I kind of get the impression that he couldn't care less. According to Roberts in her book, Rodriguez is more focused these days on being a celebrity than a baseball player, and a lot of his actions back this up. There was that whole leaving his wife for Madonna thing, for example.

There was also a part of the book that talked about the first time A-Rod met Kate Hudson at the re-opening of the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami last November. Roberts said that Hudson flirted with A-Rod pretty constantly and that he seemed to like it, and now apparently the two of them are spending their time making out with each other in New York restaurants.

There hasn't been a big golf tournaments of memory where I heard more casual golf fans say things like, "I can't peel myself away from golf, this is great TV."

People that normally think golf is more pointless than a Matthew McConaughey movie were glued to the television like their uncle was in contention, even playing hooky to see if the pool boy could actually hold off the titan.

Here are the winners and losers from a week that will be remembered in U.S. Open history for as long as people play blade irons.

Winners

• Tiger Woods -- If he had been 100 percent healthy, the interest level would have dropped tremendously. Instead, the bum knee made Tiger actually, gulp, human. We saw him wincing, yelping, pouting and in the end, prevailing. It might not have been the sexiest performance of his 14 major wins, but it was definitely the most thrilling. The next time anyone doubts Tiger Woods, think back to June 12-16, 2008. The man really can do it all.
  

• Rocco Mediate -- He lost and it was disappointing for anyone that loves an underdog sports story, but could you have picked a more perfect foe to battle Tiger? Gracious, quirky and a little abnormal, Mediate threw every pitch he had at Tiger and still couldn't strike him out. He might not have won a trophy this week in San Diego, but he made us all realize how much fun true competition can be.