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The Ending We Needed: Phil and Amy, Hugging

Apr 11, 2010 - 11:02 PM

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- She was crying. Maybe you were, too. Seeing the glow on Amy Mickelson's face, the warmth enveloping her, we'd never have known about the debilitating radiation...

Phil Deserves Your Love as Tiger Drops (Bleeps)

Apr 10, 2010 - 8:02 PM

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- We thank the gods for intervening and back-burnering our long National (Enquirer) nightmare, replacing it with a historic sequence of golf shots from a man who deserves your love....

Too Much Adulation as Woods Contends

Apr 9, 2010 - 9:55 PM

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- In the skin-charring sun at Amen Corner, an American golfing crossroads filled with well-to-do patrons sitting on portable seats, an astonishing event took place when Tiger Woods...

Scandal Ugly, Ad Terrible, But Woods Still Can Play

Apr 8, 2010 - 10:39 PM

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- He can destroy his life by sleeping with women of assorted shapes, sizes, professions and, apparently, ages. He can approve a despicable, non-stop advertising campaign that has...

Hypocrites at Augusta Moralize Against Tiger Woods

Apr 7, 2010 - 8:21 PM

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The greencoats, as we call the gentlemen who award the Masters green jackets, are Southern good old boys unaccustomed to salacious public airings. If they were to engage in Tiger...

New Sex Messages Mean Woods Is Marked Forever

Mar 18, 2010 - 4:25 PM

(Editor's note: Portions of this column contain graphic descriptions and language of a sexual nature.) The problem with being a hapless narcissist and serial adulterer is that the paper trail never...

Shaky Woods Won't Win, but Masters Is Right Call

Mar 16, 2010 - 9:50 PM

So off we venture into a new pocket of surrealism, The Adultery Meets History Tour, starring a disgraced icon whose popularity has plummeted quicker than any celebrity since, oh, Pee Wee Herman....

Cabrera Prevails on Day That Tests Wills

Apr 12, 2009 - 9:31 PM

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Please resist any temptation to call it anticlimactic, a multi-car pileup won by the least-damaged vehicle, a classic movie with a clumsy ending, a spectacular piece of drama...

Mickelson vs. Woods Not Headline Act

Apr 11, 2009 - 8:51 PM

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- He was in the weeds more than he was in the hunt, cussing and fussing and throwing his iron so angrily that he almost beheaded his cute Tiger club cover. "(Bleep)," said Eldrick...

Better Tales Push Tiger Into Background

Apr 10, 2009 - 6:20 PM

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The winds tend to howl and hurl dust across the prairies of West Texas, where not every golfer is a washed-up pro trying to impress Rene Russo at a driving range. Chad Campbell grew...