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Ochoa Wins Player of Year in Battle That Lasted Until the Final Hole

RICHMOND, 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 ...

From KAREN CROUSE, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jiyai Shin,  Lorena Ochoa,  Nancy Lopez,  Juli Inkster,  Michelle Wie

L.P.G.A. Tour’s Finale Suspended by Darkness

RICHMOND, 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 ...

From KAREN CROUSE, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Lorena Ochoa,  Jiyai Shin,  Kristy McPherson,  Stephenie Meyer,  Oprah Winfrey

In L.P.G.A., Players Struggle on and Off the Golf Course

RICHMOND, 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 ...

From KAREN CROUSE, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Reilley Rankin,  PGA,  Ted Purdy,  Carolyn Bivens,  Lorie Kane

With Ankle In a Brace, Wie Quits After a 72

RICHMOND, 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, ...

From KAREN CROUSE, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Michelle Wie,  Christina Kim,  Lorena Ochoa,  Jiyai Shin,  Cristie Kerr

Gerhart Gives Stanford a Heisman Hopeful

STANFORD, 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 ...

From KAREN CROUSE, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jim Plunkett,  Toby Gerhart,  Jim Harbaugh,  Minnesota Vikings

Nearly Drafted by Knicks, Curry Gets Rude Welcome on Warriors

OAKLAND, 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 ...

From KAREN CROUSE, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: New York Knicks,  Noggin,  Stephen Curry,  Stephen Jackson,  Oracle

Phelps Falters in Stockholm Meet Cameo

Michael 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 ...

From KAREN CROUSE, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Michael Phelps,  Meryl Streep,  LZR Racer

Davis Says He’ll Consider Team Pursuit

WEST 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 ...

From KAREN CROUSE, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Shani Davis,  National Ice Center,  Michael Phelps,  Eric Heiden

Brandon Jennings, an N.B.A. Trailblazer, Encounters Bumps in the Road

MILWAUKEE 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 ...

From KAREN CROUSE, International Herald Tribune,  25 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Detroit Pistons,  Kelvin Sampson,  Luke Ridnour,  Scott Skiles,  Noggin

Record at World Cup Qualifier

WEST 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 ...

From KAREN CROUSE, The New York Times,  24 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Chad Hedrick,  National Ice Center,  Shani Davis,  Trevor Marsicano

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