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With Woods winning two tournaments this year and briefly reclaiming the top spot, each of golf's Big Three looks primed for the sport's biggest prize, a green jacket at the Masters, which tees off on Thursday in Augusta, Ga. "Listen, there's not a dime's worth of golf difference between any of these guys right now," says Brandel Chamblee, a PGA player and commentator for the Golf Channel. "We didn't want parity at a mediocre level. We have parity at a superstar level. I mean, what else do you want?" Only third-ranked Ernie Els could...
...Tour is a traveling high school lunchroom, and sports fans eat up the bickering as though it were a Tater Tot. Which player do you like at Augusta: The stalking Tiger? The surly workaholic Vijay? Or triple-chipper Phil? Mickelson, who slept in his winner's green jacket after last year's Masters, says being defending champ is an advantage. Only three players have repeated at Augusta: Nicklaus (1965-66), Nick Faldo (1989-90) and Woods (2001-02). "I hadn't won a major, so I had that mental hurdle to get by, which tends to wear on you over...
...example. Once proud and private, John Paul showed a youth-obsessed world that illness and old age are not badges of shame. From a wheelchair, he gave audience after audience and celebrated Mass after public Mass, one of which was witnessed, with some awe, by Beverly Firmin of Augusta, Ga. "I was up close enough where I could see the drool just coming down," Firmin said, "... and I thought, 'How sad.' Then I thought, 'Really, how beautiful.' What a strong man it takes to let people see you in that condition...
CONFESSED. JOHN COUEY, 46, convicted sex offender; to the abduction and murder of third-grader Jessica Lunsford, whose body was afterward found 150 yards from the home in Homosassa, Fla., where she lived with her father and grandparents, ending a highly publicized search; in Augusta, Ga. Arrested on a parole violation earlier in the week, Couey admitted the crime after taking a lie-detector test...
...Happening was compiled by Vinita M. Alexander, Mary Augusta Brazelton, Theodore B. Bressman, Emily Ga Wei Chau, May Habib, Nathan J. Heller, Steven N. Jacobs, Bryant Jones, Emily M. Kaplan, Christopher A. Kukstis, Timothy J. McGinn, Kristina M. Moore, Will B. Payne, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, David B. Rochelson, J. Hale Russell, Zachary M. Seward and Scoop A. Wasserstein...