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Does Golf Need Tiger Woods Anymore?
You couldn't help but notice the irony. Rory McIlroy wins the Honda Classic Sunday to become the new No. 1 golfer in the world while Tiger Woods was shooting his lowest last round ever...
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The NBA vs. Hollywood: And the Oscar Robertson Goes To...
It will be interesting to learn if reports of domestic violence spike Sunday night in America. If you haven't heard, the NBA All Star Game and the Academy Awards will overlap for ...
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The Ultimate Golf Road Trip
It's snowing outside my window here in Maine. I haven't touched a club since late October and if I'm lucky, my course will open a week or two before May. But I can dream about golf and I have a big dream...
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Top 10 Things to Eat at a Super Bowl Party!
Nobody watches the Super Bowl on an empty stomach, and here are some other facts for you to digest: The average number of people at a Super Bowl Party is 17*— only five percent ...
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50 Years Ago: Wilt Chamberlain's Record Season That Will Never Be Matched
Wilt Chamberlain wasn't a modest man. He claimed he had sex with over 20,000 women and only lived to be 63. Do the math and you'll be even more astounded and skeptical...
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Arnold Palmer's Tournament of Champions Win 50 Years Ago in Retrospect
Starting the PGA Tour year in Hawaii is sort of a no-brainer. How can you top paradise? And for all of last year’s winners who will play in this week’s Hyundai Tournament ...
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Winter Golf: I'll Be Rolling the Dice Without Tiger
Golf is a game ideally played with golf clubs and golf balls on a golf course, but where I live—Midcoast Maine—our golf club closed in early November and probably won’t open again until the middle of April...
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The Golfer's Alphabet: From Arnie to Tiger
Putting together a golfer's alphabet is not a new idea. The book pictured here was published in 1898—the year after the first golf rules committee was formed by the R & A at St...
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Top 10 List: People Who Need to Have Their Lives Touched by Tim Tebow
pla·Te·bow ef·fect—a positive motivational force used by a team after receiving inspiration from Tim Tebow who in turn gets his from God...
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Why Tiger Will Not Win a Major in 2012 or Maybe Ever Again
Arizona is the Diamondbacks. Arkansas is the Razorbacks. When politicians aren’t taking kickbacks, they’re talking cutbacks and of course there is Tim Tebow, the quarterback who has God’s back or vice versa...
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Top 10 List: What Should the Hornets Take for Chris Paul?
I feel bad for Chris Paul . On the one hand, the NBA is making it clear to him that he's worth a lot in their estimation...
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Albert Pujols: Will He Go into Baseball Heaven as a Cardinal or an Angel?
Before free agency Albert Pujols more than likely would have been a one-team player for life, so treasured and revered by St. Louis that the only way he might not have remained a Cardinal would have been if he were elected Pope...
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9 Golf Destinations You've Never Thought About!
"If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time."—Gary Player I don’t know if there’s a golf course in heaven...
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The Presidents Cup: Golf's Fraternity Party
There is no g-o-l-f in team. At least not as in p-r-o-f-e-s-s-i-o-n-a-l g-o-l-f-e-r. Let me tell you why. M-o-n-e-y and M-a-j-o-r-s! There is no money in those Cups—Presidents or Ryder—and no battlefield promotions to major winner...
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Tiger Woods and Joe Paterno: Fallen Idols in Perspective
When the mighty tumble, we are flabbergasted, fascinated and fixated. In recent years the sports world has been the source of some of the most phenomenal falls from grace in memory, ...
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Real Heroes of the Diamond—Hall of Famers Who Served During WWII
Today, the words baseball and draft mean something entirely different than they did generations ago when major leaguers had their careers interrupted to serve in America’s armed forces...
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Joe Paterno: The Tipping Point or Just the Tip of the Iceberg?
“Money is the root of all evil” “All power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely...
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Early Birdie Gift Ideas for the Golfer Who Has Everything
I’ve been playing golf for 50 years, and I’m on my third set of clubs. That doesn’t make me a consumer golf equipment manufacturers are likely to covet. But I still dream...
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Presidents Cup: Tiger vs JFK and Other Chief Executive Matchups
For many of us in the northern parts of the U.S., golf season is over, our clubs are in the garage and our swings are one less thing to worry about until next spring...
