[TS] Sports of The Times: U.S.G.A.âs Urban Drive Is Well Short
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Golfâs caretakers seem complacent with the sport the way it is: safely suburban, affluently anchored. The private politics of the United States Golf Association say so.
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He is fine. James Driscoll wants people to know that up front. The play hasn't been as sharp as he'd like, certainly not up to his standards, and he knows there's a local following that is curious, but a lot of it has to do with this game called golf.
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LAS VEGAS -- Some observations about Team USA after three days of minicamp and yesterday's 105-104 intra-squad scrimmage:
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Sometimes you can just tell. It only takes a few minutes of action, one or two touches, a run off the ball. The talent is obvious, so is the self belief.
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Statistics do not show, conclusively, why the United States no longer dominates menâs professional tennis, but there is some tantalizing evidence to consider.
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If anything, there will be a little more sizzle around the ballpark. There won't be so much focus on Julio Lugo's slump, or J.D. Drew's batting average, or Curt Schilling's injury, or the fact that there's not much of a race in the American League East right now.
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WESTWOOD - There is an ideal way to kick-start an offense: Give it a short field.
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Running the country is no game. It just sounds like one sometimes. In the Bush White House, sports are a metaphor for life. Better keep up if you want to play.
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six of the last nine competitions -- the United States appeared to have the stronger team, yet Europe won. The US squad is, at best
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The City of Brotherly Love is a city of losers in the sports world.
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The lure of this moment is what made his retirement so short. A pennant on the line, an adopted city&#39;s heart in his hands, a hostile stadium and swarming opponent.
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This zone qualifier looks a lot like all the others -- 1992 in Portland, 1999 and 2003 in San Juan. The United States just doesn't win -- it obliterates. And the goal of every other team this week is: Get to the medal round and avoid the Yanks at all costs.
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One needn't look very far for an expert opinion on the United States men's volleyball team.
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Brazil played better, and it didn&#39;t matter. The US women&#39;s soccer team occasionally looked slow, even disorganized, and it didn&#39;t matter.
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English soccer has been trying to catch up for years with the women's game in the United States.
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U.S. shots at the World Cup have been scarcer than tickets. The Americans have just one shot on goal in their first two games. Every other nation has at least four.
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The European summer is barely over, the Olympic Games have come and gone, and still soccer&#39;s insatiable thirst for do-or-die intensity revs up toward the qualification for the 2006 World Cup.