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Craig Stadler may have done more than win the PGA Masters last week. The beer-bellied hurler of eight-irons and unprintable expressions of disgust may have jolted golf loose from its venerable "clean sport" image Golfers everywhere, from the pros to the caddy camps, have had to cope with sneers from aficionados of other sports, who believe playing golf requires a minimum of effort and talent and primarily a lot of inherited wealth. Stadler has shown that a less classy guy can win a major tournament, proving that golf is a game of skill, both mental and physical...
...Boswell's own youth, in which his father, who worked at the Library of Congress, smuggled him into a dingy corridor and told him. "Okay, Here is every book on baseball ever written Don't go blind." Amusing and fascinating as well are brief sketches of many of the sport's characters--the "Zen master" Red Carew, the wonderfully honest Pete Rose, and the Darth Vader of the Major Leagues, Steve Carlton, among other notables. And let's not forget Hunt Mitchell III and Pickles Smith, among the not so-notables...
Ambulances? Beer? Hashumakes? No prisoners? Only one sport combines the four, Harvard rugby. And at the Eastern Collegiate Rugby Football Union Championships this weekend at Princeton, though the four elements were present, the Harvard rugby football club, plagued by injuries, was eliminated in the second round by a more aggressive Princeton squad...
...average of 200 days of rain per year is one reason for the discontent, but the picturesque life at an average annual cash income of $6,500 is little better than simple poverty. Mutton?stewed, ham-burgered or grilled?shows up at most meals. Drinking is a favorite sport; discarded beer cans are everywhere, even in peat deposits...
What happened to nobility and sentimentality? "As for anybody who has illusions about the nobility of the sport," Rodgers answers, "they're generally not the marathoners themselves, certainly not the world-class marathoners. It wasn't the athletes who said they didn't want to be professionals. It's only the people who don't know what it takes to reach this level. There is a kind of dream world. A myth was concocted...