Shaquille O'Neal announced his retirement on Twitter. No tears. No fuss. Just a direct message to his fans. Next thing you know, sports commentators will be rendered obsolete.
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After a quick lesson, we set out onto the green. Walking around a golf course is a challenge in stilettos, sinking down into the turf, crushing the greenery -- there's a reason you'll only see Michelle Wie In flats.
"I've already heard from people at ESPN who've gotten their hands on excerpts or in one case the whole book, and they were pleased, because they said it was an honest account, warts and all."
Mets owner Fred Wilpon's honest comments about his players are making the sports pages. On David Wright: "A really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar."
I'm probably the only one around who feels this way, but I'm getting pretty sick of people being busted for sexual indiscretions with another consenting adult and then being forced to bend themselves into pretzels to cover up the mistake.
PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem says they may test for human growth hormone, HGH. Actually, they'll be forced to when golf arrives at the 2016 Olympics.
Many have doubted whether Tiger will ever surpass Jack Nicklaus' record of winning 18 majors. And with his ever-increasing physical woes, Tiger has to be questioning that as well.
Tiger Woods limped off the golf course yesterday after shooting an ugly six-over-par 42 through nine holes. So the future of the PGA Tour is more of the same. No Tiger.
Back in 2006 we all knew Tiger Woods was eventually going to race past Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 major championships and set a new standard which would likely never be broken. It was a fact of life. Fast forward to 2011, and it is looking like a long-shot at best.
The Seattle Mariners have dumped Milton Bradley. Not a surprise. Despite being paid $12 million this season, he's batting .218. Which team will now hire him and proclaim, "He's a changed man"?
Golf is finding ways to expand into communities in which it has not been played, such as the three-hole course in an industrial section of Cleveland, where the First Tee Foundation has created an oasis of natural beauty.
I was assigned to do a story on a man with terminal heart disease who as a dying wish, had requested to walk the hallowed grounds at Augusta National.
As April has come in with a growl in New York and the Northeast, with winter-weather-like conditions, who can utter the word "spring"? Not even the st...
Thank you VCU Rams. We had no idea you even existed in February, yet you'll still be standing in April. Now that's sports!
Men aren't the only ones who cheat. Many married women cheat, and any woman sleeping with a married man is equally culpable. So again, why the beating of the drum about men-as-scumbags?
Like other sports, golf teaches discipline, self-reliance, emotional maturity, and a high degree of fine motor skills control. However, golf has the added dimensions of requiring players to respect nature, play with integrity and recover from adversity.
Ironically, Charlie Sheen and the others may be addicted to drugs, but because of our need to keep our dopamine highs by watching and reading about them, we have become addicted to that.
Few times in history has a rich and famous person so manically and frantically argued for his sobriety and sanity, while millions of viewers watch intuitively, questioning when the guillotine will fall.
The Knicks go into Miami and knock off the Heat 91-86, as Amar'e Stoudemire blocks LeBron James' layup in the final seconds.
Owner James Dolan swore that Isiah Thomas had nothing whatsoever to do with the Carmelo Anthony deal. As usual, Dolan took no questions.
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