Despite Hype, Tiger Doesn’T Always Win
Just under a year ago, we took a talented young golfer and turned him into a god. Fortunately, for Tiger Woods, he has turned himself back into a man.
Unfortunately, for Tiger Woods, he’s had to do it by losing.
That’s right. Tiger loses. He loses close. He loses far. He loses a playoff. He loses by collapsing on the final day. He even loses, once, by missing the cut.
HERE’S YOUR GUIDE TO OSCAR MADNESS
Lights! Camera! Questions!That’s right. Once again, Mr. Oscar Man will take time from his busy schedule of checking the hemlines of this year’s Best Actress nominees to answer your most frequent inquiries about Monday Academy Awards.Hurry. I think I just...
Ellerbe Gets U-M Basketball Jobinterim Coach Is Choice As Athletic Director Stands By His Man
The people who run sports at the University of Michigan insist their basketball coaching job is a juicy plum, a sparkling treasure, a gem of a position that the best coaches in the business would lunge at if given the chance.
The funny thing is, they never get the chance.
FLINTY CLEAVES IS THE REAL DEAL IN TWO WORLDS
EASTLANSING — There are french fries by his elbow and a hamburger in his hands, a baseball cap tilted on his head and a single earring in his left lobe. There is a permanent smile on his face, happy hellos from his dusty voice, and a stream of stares from...
March Sadness Party’S Over For Three State Teams; Only Msu Remains
CHICAGO — The difference between Friday and Sunday is the difference between a party night and a school night, between the fun starting and the fun ending, or, in college basketball’s thrilling, season-ending tournament, the difference between a future and a past. Three Michigan schools, two of them strangers to this kind of spotlight, woke up Sunday with a sweet taste of success and dreams of more, more, more. By evening, reality had hit home: One taste was all there would be.
All-Girls Schools Aren’T A Cure-All
Right off the bat, I confess a certain nostalgia for my school years. I had fun. I had friends. I had laughs. So perhaps my logic is blurry. I never realized that being a boy was such a distraction.
I knew girls were a distraction. I discovered that in sixth grade, when the first girl I liked cast a quick glance in my direction, fluttered her eyelashes, and I felt a queasy, goose-bumping rush. At that moment, the teacher could have said “America was discovered by hyenas” and I would have written it down.
Brian Ellerbe: How Should He Be Judged?
So much has been written, broadcast and debated about Brian Ellerbe — the job he has done with Michigan basketball, good, bad, whether he should get to keep it — and over and over, people keep missing the points.
First of all, his biggest accomplishment was not winning over his players, it was winning over his assistant coaches.
DON’T SELL EARL SHORT; HE’S BOUND TO BE BIG!
It’s Earl’s World now.I see Earl Shirts and Earl Shorts. I see Earl Shoes and Earl Laces. I see Earl-y Bird Specials and Earl-y Breakfast Combos, with Earl Toast and Earl Jam — not the kind of jam you usually talk about in basketball, although he can...
Nagano Taught Us To Take Our Shoes Off And To Open Our Minds To Change
NAGANO, Japan — The Games began, for many of us, the moment we took off our shoes. It is a Japanese custom politely — but forcefully — inflicted on visitors as soon as they step inside. And in retrospect, it serves as a fitting symbol of these mild and friendly Olympics, which often required stepping out of old-heeled ways and getting used to a new soul, or what Monty Python might call
“something completely different.”
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