Word: likelies
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...second reason ratings might not totally tank: fans will want to know what a tour without Tiger feels like. When Woods was hurt, people wouldn't watch, because they knew he'd be back eventually. What was the point? Now, what if he never comes back? That's the longest of long shots, of course. But at this point, would anything in this story surprise...
...game just because he's not on the fairway? Is it beyond the realm of possibility that these same Tiger fans, who have grown to appreciate the sport as well as the superstar, will seek out other players to pull for? A Phil Mickelson? A talented young American like Anthony Kim? Of course, no other player has the charisma or talent of Tiger. But while Woods is away, fans may rehearse a golf life without him. (See the top 10 fleeting celebrities...
...award-winning series was artful, they see Jersey Shore as just ugly. Says Gina Barreca, an English professor at the University of Connecticut who edited a collection of essays called A Sitdown with The Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on T.V.'s Most Talked About Series: "The Sopranos is like Shakespeare and Tony Soprano is King Lear. The trouble is, a show like Jersey Shore is just a room full of attendants: all Rosencrantz and Guildenstern without a leader." Barreca calls the Guido subculture a "crisis of masculinity" and "a celebration of ignorance...
...know that sounds as heretical to Notre Dame fans as filet mignon on Good Friday. But here's another sacrilege for Irish ears: Notre Dame needs to act a bit more like the school it once disparaged, the University of Miami. That's right, the University of Miami Hurricanes, who used to symbolize so much that is wrong with Division I college football. Until a few years ago, the Hurricanes had an all too often deserved reputation for thugball - a brash, smash-mouth style that mirrored the Miami Vice era both on and off the field. Some recruits...
That's why the Catholics could learn a thing or two from the Convicts right now. By once more making such a hysterical search for the reincarnation of Knute Rockne - and by paying Weis an obscene $15 million or more to go away - Notre Dame loyalists risk looking like the petty boosters of a football factory instead of the thoughtful backers of an elite university that regularly cracks the academic top 20 today. And the country today needs Notre Dame the university far more than it needs Notre Dame the football team. That fact shone like the school's Golden...