http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/karen_crouseArticles by KAREN CROUSE, aggregated by daylife.comen-usTue, 24 Nov 2009 07:07:22 GMTTue, 24 Nov 2009 07:07:22 GMTDaylife Betaken@daylife.comken@daylife.comhttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=c949617beef6d95f32c52fba573a741eRICHMOND, Tex. Two of the more low-key players on the L.P.G.A. Tour turned into drama queens Monday, taking their battle for player of the year honors right down to the last hole of the final tournament on the 2009 schedule. Jiyai Shin, a rookie ...Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:30:28 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=c949617beef6d95f32c52fba573a741eJiyai ShinLorena OchoaNancy LopezJuli InksterMichelle Wiehttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b535c85dc2bdbe7bfa55c79a85e25d8eRICHMOND, Tex. Darkness chased Lorena Ochoa off the golf course Sunday before she was through, but she was not done. After making a bogey on the penultimate hole of a second round she had waited two days to start, Ochoa headed straight to the practice ...Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:59:33 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b535c85dc2bdbe7bfa55c79a85e25d8eLorena OchoaJiyai ShinKristy McPhersonStephenie MeyerOprah Winfreyhttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=cbae23c434a8611898987c081aa1d30cRICHMOND, Tex. Reilley Rankin is a college graduate who earned more than $400,000 two years ago plying her trade. Now she is merely another member of the L.P.G.A.’s middle class trying not to slip through the economy’s cracks. Reilley Rankin's uncle ...Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:59:56 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=cbae23c434a8611898987c081aa1d30cReilley RankinPGATed PurdyCarolyn BivensLorie Kanehttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=3c372e73d46df325c75f2307eaceb706RICHMOND, Tex. Now that Michelle Wie had found her footing, not much was supposed to slow her down. She barely broke stride Thursday on the first fairway when she hiked up her left pant leg on the opening hole to show her playing partner, Christina Kim, ...Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:29:29 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=3c372e73d46df325c75f2307eaceb706Michelle WieChristina KimLorena OchoaJiyai ShinCristie Kerrhttp://feeds1.nytimes.com/~r/nyt/rss/Sports/~3/c66hpu7bNDA/19stanford.htmlSTANFORD, Calif. Four Stanford graduates have become Supreme Court justices since the football team produced its only Heisman Trophy winner, Jim Plunkett, in 1970. Into this yawning gap burst Toby Gerhart, a senior tailback, who has insinuated himself ...Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:22:04 GMThttp://feeds1.nytimes.com/~r/nyt/rss/Sports/~3/c66hpu7bNDA/19stanford.htmlJim PlunkettToby GerhartJim HarbaughMinnesota Vikingshttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/sports/basketball/11warriors.html?partner=rss&emc=rssOAKLAND, Calif. After the worst game of his nascent N.B.A. career, Stephen Curry stood in the Warriors’ locker room and applied an ice pack to the knee of his extended left leg. He glanced warily over his left shoulder at his Golden State teammate ...Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:48:34 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/sports/basketball/11warriors.html?partner=rss&emc=rssNew York KnicksNogginStephen CurryStephen JacksonOraclehttp://feeds1.nytimes.com/~r/nyt/rss/Sports/~3/C3SMcBhfnMo/11phelps.htmlMichael Phelps’s presence on a United States team competing this week in Stockholm is akin to Meryl Streep gracing a traveling production of “Mamma Mia!”. Phelps, a 14-time Olympic medalist, is a headliner among up-and-comers on USA Swimming’s National ...Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:57:51 GMThttp://feeds1.nytimes.com/~r/nyt/rss/Sports/~3/C3SMcBhfnMo/11phelps.htmlMichael PhelpsMeryl StreepLZR Racerhttp://feeds1.nytimes.com/~r/nyt/rss/Sports/~3/Fm75FJNLcF8/26davis.htmlWEST ALLIS, Wis. The team pursuit could be on the long-track speedskater Shani Davis’s schedule this Olympics and so, remarkably, could five other events. Davis, a two-time medalist at the 2006 Games, qualified for the United States World Cup team, a ...Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:22:35 GMThttp://feeds1.nytimes.com/~r/nyt/rss/Sports/~3/Fm75FJNLcF8/26davis.htmlShani DavisNational Ice CenterMichael PhelpsEric Heidenhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/sports/basketball/26bucks.html?partner=rss&emc=rssMILWAUKEE After being undressed by the Detroit Pistons, Brandon Jennings of the Bucks stood in front of his locker Friday night at the Bradley Center and pulled on a pair of jeans. He slipped his long arms through the short sleeves of a black ...Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:12:27 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/sports/basketball/26bucks.html?partner=rss&emc=rssDetroit PistonsKelvin SampsonLuke RidnourScott SkilesNogginhttp://feeds1.nytimes.com/~r/nyt/rss/Sports/~3/IoZ889EsJuA/25skate.htmlWEST ALLIS, Wis. With the Olympics around the corner, it was time for Chad Hedrick to resurface. Hedrick, a triple medalist at the 2006 Turin Games who did not have a podium finish on the World Cup circuit last year, posted a time in the 1,500 meters ...Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:39:37 GMThttp://feeds1.nytimes.com/~r/nyt/rss/Sports/~3/IoZ889EsJuA/25skate.htmlChad HedrickNational Ice CenterShani DavisTrevor Marsicano