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...Even when I was eight, I could tell that golf was a very bonding experience with my dad and brother, and, later, a family experience. Now, on Sunday nights, I can talk to my family about Tiger Woods winning the Masters or who's winning on the PGA Tour...
...would be too much to expect Tiger Woods, or anyone else, to say "I am Jackie Robinson." What Jack Roosevelt Robinson accomplished is chilling even to this day. This son of a Georgia sharecropper endured unspeakable indignities and taunts to become baseball's first black player. (Just last week officials in the small Florida town of Sanford issued an apology for their predecessors who forced Robinson off the field during a minor league game in 1946.) He won over hostile teammates, opponents and newsmen with his ferocity on the field and grace off it. In his 10 short years...
...moment, Tiger Woods, would benefit from the counsel of Jackie's widow Rachel Robinson, who stood as tall at Shea the other night as she did 50 years ago, when she rose from her seat to shield her husband from the racial invectives being hurled at him. During the ceremony honoring Jackie, Rachel called on America to "reawaken the feelings of unity and use them as a driving force...
...honoring of Robinson are reminders that sports can be a common ground, be it stadium, arena, course, court, ring or ball park. The V.P. can talk to the UPS guy about the De La Hoya-Whitaker fight. The cabbie and the fare can share their amazement over Tiger's victory. The vendor and the suit can smile at each other as they wipe away tears brought forth by Jackie's image...
NIKE Forget Heaven's Gate; $40 million Tiger Woods contract looks cheap. Shrewd deal...