This week's event has a cool statue in sports
One thing that sports is very good at, it's fair to say, is statues. So many good ones. Like this from Old Trafford, Manchester United's stadium.
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The statue of Pat Tillman outside of the University of Phoenix is also stunning.
Golf has some good statues, too. Payne Stewart's memorial at Pinehurst is a notable one…
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…but my personal favorite is the one on display this week, at the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Florida. It's a massive, scary snake. Check it out.
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The reason behind it? "The Snake Pit" is the name of the course's difficult closing stretch of holes. Golf Channel has a good video on it: