RIGGLEMAN SUITS HIS SUITS FINE
The week's hot-air boomlet to see the last of Jim Riggleman as the Cubs' manager was less wishful hysteria than crackpot boredom, stirred by the vacuum of losing and encouraged...
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THOMAS DESIGNATES A LESSER FUTURE
The votes are in. Frank Thomas is a first baseman. Everyone says so. His manager says so, newspaper columnists say so, talk-show nits say so. Even God says so, otherwise...
TO GRAF, IT WAS NEVER FUN AND GAMES
The most surprising thing about Steffi Graf's abandonment of tennis is her explanation of why. She is not having any fun any more. When did she ever? If she is...
WITH MAJOR MOTIVATION, WOODS SLAMS THE DOOR
How nice to have goals. "I know Jack had a Grand Slam by 26," said Tiger Woods. "Maybe I can do the same." What is a half a Slam, anyhow?...
SUDDENLY, IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE
Tigers and tigers and tigers, oh my. The forests of Medinah are full of them. Canada's got one, Spain's got one, and the good old US of A has the...
MIGHTY (BORING) MEDINAH (HARDLY) A CHALLENGE
Meow. Mighty Medinah nuzzled the world's greatest golfers again Friday, as well as a few from Wisconsin, rubbing up against the bunch of them when not rolling over, stomach exposed,...
TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION
Welcome to the WWWF, the World Wedge Waving Federation. Any resemblance to golf or the PGA Championship is incidental, and thank all those Gen-X dudes for that. Hey, Tiger, give...
AN EYE-OPENER–AND A SNOOZE
If the burden of golf is being carried these days by Tiger Woods and David Duval, Woods certainly has the heavy end of the piano. It is only golf's bias...
JUMPING TO A MCNOWN CONCLUSION, NOT FOR JOY
Why, sure, that's the way to cure McNown fever. Let him play. What a short, sweet hallucination that was. Cade McNown, franchise savior and rocket to glory. How long did...
IN A SEASON OF LOSS, ONLY SOSA WINS
Hand-wringing would be much more common with Cubs fans if one hand didn't have a beer in it. So seasons like this one pass and settle into a familiar consolation:...