If you know golf, you're flat-out impressed with what Tiger Woods did yesterday. In a match play event, where you keep score by number of holes won, Tiger beat Stephen Ames like a rented mule -- he won nine straight holes and closed him out as early as is mathematically possible.
Clever headline: Bond. Jamth Bond. New 007 Daniel Craig had a couple of teeth knocked out while filming a fight scene for Casino Royale.
Only half of worried Americans try to manage stress. That's easy to believe. Stress has to be overlooked as one of the most harmful factors in everyday health. That said, I don't do as well as I should trying to manage it.
The Dodgers re-signed Vin Scully to a new deal that will keep him behind the microphone through 2008. That's great -- he's one of the last of the old-guard guys I've always liked.
Speaking of baseball, hard to believe it's as close as it is. Why can't I find a Cardinals cap that I like? I could find one if I wanted to look like a gang member in Brooklyn, but not a casual Redbirds fan.
I see that Curt Gowdy has died. I always hate to see these sportscasters go -- there are some real talents around today, but few have the class and versatility displayed by guys like Gowdy. I remember listening to him do the Game of the Week and hosting American Sportsman.
Finally, I got XM Radio hooked up over the weekend. I'm still playing around with it, but already I love the variety and the ability also to listen online. Nice to have on long commute days.
Don't ask me how, but I ended up watching donkeys play basketball on Saturday. Some fundraiser. Believe me, after one ten-minute quarter of this, you've had enough.
Eleanor Clift has a column about Sen. Jim Talent (of my home state of Missouri) who took a deep breath and removed his name from proposed legislation that would outlaw some forms of stem cell research. He didn't quite stand tall, but he did stand, and I admire his willingness to buck the short-sighted. The in-thy-face crowd feels betrayed. However, I'd rather have have him doing the right thing rather than cave into those folks. A man I used to work for, American Century founder Jim Stowers, pledged nearly his entire fortune to establish a world-class medical research facility in Kansas City, a place that badly needs innovators and forward-thinking leaders, and if the in-thy-face crowd gets its way, Stowers says fine, he'll move to another state. That is something Missouri cannot afford under any scenario. The Dems are gunning for Talent, and this may cost him the election. However, politicians who are willing to lose elections are politicians I admire.
