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...When Marion was a kid, her toys were sticks and balls, not dolls, and as with Tiger and Andre, there are stories aplenty about Marion the post-toddler prodigy. A feisty little girl, she could outrace any boy in the L.A. burbs. She was special and knew it. At age 5 in 1981, she watched Diana marry Charles on TV and asked about the red carpet. Her mom told her the carpet was rolled out for important people. "Well, when I go places," Marion said, "why don't they roll...
...perhaps Latinos, Asians and blacks can expect the same. Of course, the Italians, Irish and Polish looked a lot more like the elites that were already in place, and for America to be vertically colorblind, it may just take the "browning of America," by generations of inter-marriage, that Tiger Woods embodies and will occasionally talk about...
...more important stuff. I'm sure that everyone in your entourage (not to mention the hordes of media hacks now hot on your trail) is telling you you're the best thing that's ever happened to golf. And that may well be true. But to be perfectly honest, Tiger, you need to keep all this praise in perspective. Because let's face it, being the best thing that ever happened to golf is well and good, but it doesn't mean you can just sit back on your cleated laurels and count your greenbacks...
...name: Look, Tiger is fine if you're 10 or even 24. But at some point you've got to revert to Eldrick. There's no dignified way to make your way through middle age with a handle that encourages people to pour you a glass of milk and cut your meat for you. Need proof? Ask Fuzzy...
...onto neutral ground. It's working a little too well - the Democratic convention is quickly receding into a small box in my memory, and in my fatigued and malnourished state I sometimes think I dreamed the whole thing. On Monday, the newsmagazine covers will feature non-political faces again. Tiger Woods will have won the PGA Championship again. And the only thing left over from Los Angeles will be some souvenir press passes, a few cases of lingering jet lag and an indication of Gore's bounce, or lack of it, to be gleaned from the Sunday night polls...