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...21st century seem to have mixed up Tiger Woods with Bagger Vance--the angelic black caddy in the eponymous film who uses supernatural powers to help a white golf pro get over the yips and straighten out his love life. Or perhaps they have confused the world's best golfer with the hulking black convict in The Green Mile, played so powerfully by Michael Clarke Duncan, who never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers to cure another black person, only white people. Both characters are examples of a recurring Hollywood fantasy that might be called the Magic Negro...
...golfer has the potential to accomplish what none other has managed: stealing the spotlight from Tiger Woods. SUZY WHALEY, a pro at a Connecticut golf club, has become the first woman to qualify to play in the PGA. Whaley, 35, beat all other competitors, including another woman, in a sectional championship in Connecticut, which automatically qualified her to play in the Greater Hartford Open next summer. At the moment, Whaley hasn't decided whether she'll join. She won the section championship by playing off the women's tees, which are 10% closer to the holes than...
...Yale course is] extremely difficult—dreaded by every golfer in the northeast,” junior Merry Chiampa added in anticipation of next week’s Yale Invitational...
...Westwood has had a rotten year. The English golfer hasn't won all season. His best finish was 15th, at last month's NEC Invitational in Seattle. Last year, he was ranked No. 4 in the world. Now he's No. 133, the lowest of any player at next week's Ryder Cup. People keep asking whether this fading star has any shine left for his team, and it's getting on his nerves. "People put too much emphasis on [the Cup]," he said two weeks ago, after missing the cut at the European Masters in Switzerland. "It's supposed...
...mixed race were once portrayed as tragic figures in movies, such as 1934's Imitation of Life, its 1959 remake and 1960's I Passed for White, today's pop-culture scene is bursting with mixed-race heroes, from movie tough guys Vin Diesel and The Rock to golfer Tiger Woods and rising tennis star James Blake to singers like Alicia Keys and Norah Jones. Sacramento is ahead of the curve; 2 of every 10 babies born here are multiracial. When those babies grow up and start marrying--a national survey shows more than 90% of today's teens approve...