Category: "Golf"

The Real Face of Gender Discrimination

While everyone decried discrimination at a private club, they ignored [the systemic discrimination of an entire nation's women... →]

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NTSF: Initial Thoughts on the Green Sports Alliance Summit

The Green Sports Alliance just concluded their inaugural Summit held over the past three days in Portland… [Zach offers his initial thoughts in this week's NTSF. →]

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[Book Review] Wonder Girl reveals Babe Didrikson’s incredible life

With Babe Didrikson’s — voted a top 10 athlete of the 20th century in North America by ESPN and the Associated Press — 100th anniversary of her birthday (she died in 1956) coming up on June 26th, we decided to review Don Van Natta Jr.’s Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, [...]

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No Tiger Woods means 20% drop in price of tickets at U.S. Open

Ticket resalers are probably the most ticked off about Tiger Woods pulling out of the U.S. Open this year, because of nagging left leg injuries.

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When Immortals Reveal Their Mortality

Zach throws a few shovelfuls of dirt on the future fortunes of two living legends…

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Tiger Woods won’t be on cover of Tiger Woods golf

Well, EA Sports has decided one of two things. Either Tiger Woods on the cover of the eponymous game is bad for sales, or they’re trying to increase the sales for the deluxe version, which costs $10 more. Either way, don’t feel bad for him. He still did pretty well this year — find out [...]

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NTSF 109: Shifting allegiances in a digital age, Champions League groups hit halfway point, Olympic medal for sale and more…

Wednesday morning really left me with a lot of time to think, and boy was there plenty to think about. I was up before 4:00 am, waking up to drive my wife to the airport for a week away on business. (Sweetheart that she was, having been up awake all night unable to sleep, she [...]

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NTSF 106: Storm clouds over Contador, the value of international competition and more…

   I wasn’t planning on having to write this piece, and I wasn’t planning on having to bring this week’s column to you late. What you’ll read deeper into this week’s edition is the direction I’d hoped to go, discussing hour tournaments like the Olympic hockey spectacle and the Davis Cup and the Ryder Cup are [...]

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