Super Bowl doesn't slow the golf party
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For a change, the FBR Open isn't the biggest show in town, not with the Super Bowl just down the freeway.
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KAPALUA, Hawaii -- The winds picked up and the scores went down. Go figure. Actually, don't bother, because golf is a game that rarely can be explained, and yesterday's second round of the $5.3 million Mercedes Championships at the Plantation Course is the latest example.
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Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were more of a sneak preview than the main event. Together in a major for the first time in five years, both shot 69 &#151; not usually a bad start in the PGA Championship, but certainly nothing special on a day of record scoring at Medinah Country Club.
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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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There is great passion for the Eagles and their fan base is very much enjoying this Super Bowl ride. There is, however, one great name in franchise history who doesn't care to get wrapped up in the proceedings.
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When the Ryder Cup came to The Country Club in Brookline in 1999, crowds gathering to watch the world's best golfers created traffic snarls. Controlling all those people was a huge undertaking, as spectators responded to their golf heroes with awe bordering on the deific. There were Sergio Garcia and Paul Lawrie, striding the emerald fairways, not a hundred feet ...
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FOXBOROUGH -- The game has been hyped on national television for a week. It will be played in a stadium full of fans wearing T-shirts made for that night. One player has dubbed the contest, &quot;Super Bowl No. 2, Round 2.&quot;
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A new study shows that golf courses can be good homes for more than one kind of birdie.
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The absence of Tiger Woods won't spoil the party at the FBR Open. It never does.
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A new era in golf begins in two weeks, and it might expose an old problem. The tour has been trumpeting its new slogan in advertising campaigns over the last month, gearing up for the new FedExCup that tees off Jan. 4 at the Mercedes-Benz Championship. But this big launch in Kapalua might fizzle without its biggest rocket. Tiger Woods might not be there.
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Paul McCartney came to the Super Bowl on Thursday and avoided any hint -- even the tiniest bit -- of controversy.
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It's not the traditional arrangement of a son working for his father-in-law. Especially not in the supercharged atmosphere of Super Bowl week.
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From golf with football legends to a parade of illuminated boats, hosting Super Bowl XXXIX is the city's moment in the sun.
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Tiger Woods absence from the FBR Open will not stop a half-million or so people from making the trek to the Tournament Players Club course in north Scottsdale.
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Baseball is coming down the pike. Thatâs the consolation for the cold wave that has hit the Northeast as we hunker down for Sundayâs Super Bowl.
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Only the golf shirt changes. One year it's blue and white stripes, this year it's green with white pinstripes. But it's the same golfer holding the same trophy with the same satisfied smile.
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This has been one heck of a season thus far. Every week, there have been games that have been dynamite. I can understand the proponents of keeping the bowl system the way it is.