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...Picking a winner in the PGA Championship: don't trust anyone over 30. Golf's youth movement goes for the Slam with Woods, Els, and Leonard each looking for their second majors starting Thursday at Winged Foot. The early favorite: 27-year-old Phil Mickelson...
Backed by the existing infrastructure and marketing savvy of the N.B.A., the W.N.B.A. has exceeded all expectations midway through its two-month inaugural season, averaging 8,766 in attendance, well above its projection of 4,500 a game, and occasionally eclipsing Major League Soccer and P.G.A. golf in the television ratings. W.N.B.A. games are televised nationally over NBC (weekends), ESPN (weekdays) and Lifetime (Fridays). Viewers watching the N.B.A. playoffs in June were besieged with the W.N.B.A. slogan, "We Got Next." The phrase is commonly used on playgrounds to reserve the next game, but in light of the early success...
...they called him. Or "Little Ice Water" or "Blazing Ben" or "the Hawk." Ben Hogan had almost as many nicknames as he did victories in golf's major championships, and that was nine. The sobriquets were mainly attempts to inject a little color into a man whose personality matched his no-nonsense golfing attire--white linen cap, beige shirt and sharply pressed slacks...
...legend needed no embellishment. When William Benjamin Hogan died last week at 84, he was rightly revered as the greatest shotmaker who ever lived. "No human has ever come as close to controlling the golf ball as perfectly as he did," said Ben Crenshaw. The son of a Dublin, Texas, blacksmith, Hogan forged his ideal swing through hard work. He would practice until his hands bled, and when other pros gathered around the fire during a rain delay, Hogan would still be hitting shots to his caddie. His fierce will helped him recover from a 1949 auto collision that nearly...
TIME's JFO Mcallister reports that the preliminary budget agreement waiting for President Clinton's return from Vegas is likely to be pleasant after-golf reading. "Clinton has been very successful in maneuvering the Republicans into feeling weak and feeling like they have to compromise." That should still apply when the deal returns to legislators...