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Handicapping the Ryder Cup Captain’s Picks
Unless you’re the kind of fan who enjoys celebrity breakups, thrilling quasi suspensions, or SWING COACH DRAMA, there aren’t many exciting off-the-course days in the golf calendar. It’s a sport with no...
View ArticleThe Ryder Cup Preview: Massive, Unhinged, Scottish
Long after I’ve become a twisted, bitter shell of my younger, better self (I give it two to three years), there will remain one sporting event that inspires in me those old feelings of drama, history,...
View ArticleThe End of a Brilliant Summer: Rory at the Ryder Cup
As iconic moments go, a few stood out in Europe’s emphatic, 16.5-11.5 Ryder Cup victory in Gleneagles. There was, of course, the clincher — Jamie Donaldson’s wedge on 15 that stopped two feet from the...
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William Randolph Jeter: Shortstop Turns Media Mogul, Hilarity Ensues
Given my track record, I am in no position to wax sententious about any journalism start-up. Since 1978, I have worked full-time for five publications. Two of them do not exist anymore. Most relevant...
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Heir Jordan: The Most Exciting Player in Golf Got Himself a Green Jacket
Things that make you feel frighteningly old: It’s officially been a generation since Tiger Woods first overpowered Augusta National as a 21-year-old Cablinasian, thereby obliterating the power...
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We Went There: Jordan Spieth Makes U.S. Open History, or Dustin Johnson Chokes
Before Jordan Spieth’s press conference at Chambers Bay in University Place, Washington, a USGA official reeled off some historical context for Spieth’s win. Jordan Spieth is now the youngest player to...
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Forget Tiger and Rory: The British Open Was Beautiful Chaos
On the 18th hole of the fourth round of the Open Championship, Jordan Spieth had an opportunity. If Spieth could birdie 18, something he’d done twice already this tournament, he would join Zach Johnson...
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Say Good Night to the Bad Guys: An Appreciation of Late-Career A-Rod and...
Imagine if sports fans ever turned our judgmental gazes inward. We drone on about concepts like sanctity and integrity like we’re Jesuit headmasters delivering a convocation, war stripes painted on our...
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The Need for Spieth: Why the Media Adores Golf’s Latest Phenom
If you want to understand how a bunch of hard-boiled golf writers fell in love with a Nice Young Man — how the people who seek controversy learned to respect someone who sidesteps it at every turn —...
View ArticleJason’s Day, Spieth’s Year: The PGA Championship and Golf’s Thrilling Future
An Australian named Jason Day won the PGA Championship at a course called Whistling Straits in Wisconsin on Sunday. That was the golf story, and it wasn’t a bad one at all, given that Day grew up “on...
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