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...performance of the Harvard men’s golf team’s freshman was one of the few bright spots in a tough weekend at the McLaughlin tournament, hosted by St. John’s University. The Crimson finished 12th out of 16 competing teams, with Akron taking the number one spot...
Princeton captured the number one spot on its home course, leaving the Harvard women’s golf team in second place out of 13 competing teams at the Princeton Women’s Invitational this weekend at Springdale Golf Club. The Crimson shot a 612 as a team in two rounds of competition over the course of the weekend, 18 strokes behind Princeton’s leading score of 594. St. John’s rounded out the top three with a score of 640. Leading the way for Harvard was sophomore Emily Balmert, whose two-day total...
DIED. Patty Berg, 88, charismatic, pioneering women's-golf champion whose record of 15 major titles still stands; in Fort Myers, Fla. Eager to run the women's game more efficiently, in 1950 she jump-started the formation of the Ladies Professional Golf Association and tirelessly promoted the 13-member group as its first president. At her induction into the Hall of Fame in 1951, Berg -- who as a girl played quarterback on a local team with friend (and soon-to-be-legendary University of Oklahoma coach) Bud Wilkinson -- joked, "I'm very happy I gave up football...
...emphatically toward the Today anchorman's chest and insisting, "My job is to protect this country, Matt. And it gets second-guessed all the time by people who don't live in the United States." Lauer has interviewed Bush several times, and they have a convivial relationship, bonding about golf and bikes during breaks in the taping. But at the moment, Lauer is pressing the President on the legality of the CIA's secret detention program for accused terrorists. Lauer holds his ground on the big rug as the Commander in Chief edges forward, encroaching on his space...
...Court papers detail Ney's acknowledgment of exchanging official acts for benefits, including an August 2002 golf trip to Scotland, paid for by Abramoff and his clients. The junket, which included a White House procurement official as well as Ney's then chief of staff, cost in excess of $160,000, according to the papers...