Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers..

Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking about a chart-….

The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes to play, all of them different….

There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them..

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section..

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting..

Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve..

I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is….

Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuf….

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it..

Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage..

The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lo….

Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys….

Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and ….

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fa….

A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife..

Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all abo….

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow..

Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It never occurred to me to wear….

A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneat….

I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practi….