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...just had a little knee ouchy. But with a horde of cameras following him, Woods' triumph over minor injury was quickly elevated to the stuff of Olympic tearjerkers. Leaving the 18th green at Pebble Beach, Calif., after practice last Wednesday, Woods accidentally stepped on the ankle of a voracious autograph seeker, spraining his left knee. With the eager fan screaming at him for not signing, Woods retreated to the trainer's room, gloomily setting his odds of playing in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am as slim. But when tee time came the next day, Tiger was there, bravely playing through...
...months ago, the mayor of Hialeah Gardens was convicted of soliciting to murder her ex-husband. The first place she went looking for hit men: city hall. Our tolerance for such controversial characters is epitomized by the welcome given O.J. Simpson, who moved here for the golf. Autograph seekers follow him down the fairways as if he were one of the Beatles...
...even more squirrely during his long retirement. In the 1990s, taking his last laps as a handshaker, autograph signer and first-ball thrower, he demanded to be introduced as "baseball's greatest living ballplayer." He insisted on first-class transcontinental airfare even if he was only taking a cab from across town...
...last week, when former centerfold Anna Nicole Smith boom-boomed out of a Houston courtroom during a break in the latest blood feud over her dead husband's $1.6 billion oil fortune, a line of autograph hounds awaited...
...will be compiled on an album later this year, with proceeds going to children's charities. Meanwhile, Germans are grooving to a single featuring the looped voice of Chancellor GERHARD SCHROEDER saying "Get me a beer or I'll go on strike." Schroeder said the words to amuse an autograph seeker, and a German TV personality mixed them into a hit. The Chancellor is said to be "amused...