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...SPORT: Want your favorite player's autograph...
Today, Harvard has basketball players who are serious about the sport. Sophomore Ralph James could have played basketball at Stanford and freshman Ron Mitchell could have played at Princeton. Co-Captains Scott Gilly and Fred Schernecker have implemented an off-season training regimen designed to keep the Crimson in game shape until November...
Like generations before them, today's golfers have discovered that the game can be good for their careers. "A lot of my business associates play," explains Kevin Bryant, 26, an insurance salesman in Greenville, S.C., who took up the sport a year and a half ago. And the handicap system evens out age and ability differences between players. Says Bryant: "It's the only sport where a 45-year-old can compete equally with a 25-year...
Karsten Solheim revolutionized the sport in 1984 with his controversial Ping Eye2 irons. Until then the grooves found on most clubs were V shaped, but Solheim, a mechanical engineer, discovered that squaring out the grooves gave players greater control. The square or U-shaped grooves work so well, in fact, that the P.G.A. tour has announced that it will ban their use in its tournaments next year. But amateurs continue to shell out $600 to $1,500 for a set of Ping clubs. Sales at privately held Karsten Manufacturing have grown 10% to 20% a month since...
...Americans now spend $15 billion on the sport, and analysts predict revenues will double by the end of the '90s. -- Hoffmann-La Roche splits the world's priciest stock...