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

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

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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-….

When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a ….

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….

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..

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