"Have we ever stopped to think that it may just be coincidence?"

Sean Martin dares to suggest that authors of the year-end Euro-supremacy stories are getting a little ahead of themselves.

Maybe it just so happens that a handful of Europeans all played great at the same time.
This whole thing reminds me of a line I read earlier this year in the book, “The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives,” by Leonard Mlodinow.

He wrote, “Random events often come like raisins in a box of cereal – in groups, streaks and clusters.”
Later in the book, he states:

“When we look at extraordinary accomplishments in sports – or elsewhere – we should keep in mind that extraordinary events can happen without extraordinary causes. Random events often look like nonrandom events, and in interpreting human affairs we must take care not to confuse the two.”

And...

What if Dustin Johnson, Hunter Mahan, Rickie Fowler and a few of their countrymen come out in 2011 and start snagging trophies at a torrid pace? How quickly would we start seeing headlines about the health of American golf.