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Golf may market itself as the Tiger-ized sport for all shades of fun-loving Americans, but it's still got a few cranky old geezers. Following the Supreme Court's decision allowing CASEY MARTIN to use a golf cart in PGA competition (Justices Thomas and Scalia dissented, speaking of cranky...), there was grumbling from several pro players about the unfairness of it all. "I think we ought to take them all out and play golf," said Jack Nicklaus of the Justices. "I think they'd change their minds." Martin, 28, who suffers from a rare circulatory disorder that...
...love my keyboard. In Hong Kong, where I live, I do all of my work on it, typing in articles, letters, e-mail, memos, rEsumEs. For me, a pen, whether Mont Blanc or Bic, holds no more charm than a bullock-cart or a charcoal stove. And paper is for reading, packaging and folding into little planes. In my world, keyboard and trackball reign supreme. So the folks at Anoto AB have their work cut out for them if they're going to convince me that plain old writing is the best way to get on the Internet. This start...
...chose him: Because of the two words with which PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem woke Martin at 7:25 A.M. Oregon time: "You prevailed." Because Martin's legal fight to ride a cart in PGA Tour events brought lawyers to the very core of sport - the concept of the "level playing field." And because, having persuaded the highest court in the land to force the PGA to allow him to compete in a motorized cart other pro golfers aren't allowed to use, all under the letter of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Martin still managed to deny the existence...
...disabled athletes overtaking professional sports as we know it," Martin said, helpfully pointing out that cart or no cart, he's not exactly poised to scoot to the top of the average PGA leaderboard as it is. Playing on the minor-league Buy.com tour, Martin hasn't been up to par. "I've missed four out of eight cuts and made $5,000 this year," he said Tuesday, "so if there's an advantage, I'd like to know where...
...Tour, after reading the very careful majority opinion written by avid golfer Justice John Paul Stevens (presumably, at his age, a riding man), is with the 28-year-old in the cart: This is about Casey Martin, and only Casey Martin...