RealClearSports: Tiger Shows Up Late While Others Talk

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. -- He showed up, if late. Took his bag, his caddy and his suspicions into the blast furnace they call summer in Georgia. Tiger Woods was on site, practicing his swing and, maybe the way things have been going, his counter attack.

Tiger talks Wednesday, his official media interview in this prelude to the 93rd PGA Championship, which starts Thursday at Atlanta Athletic Club. Don't expect revelations. The question is what we should expect from his golf.

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RealClearSports: Phillies' Lee Leaves Giants Helpless

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

SAN FRANCISCO — This is what the San Francisco Giants do to the other team, what the Philadelphia Phillies did Thursday night to the Giants, leave them hopeless and helpless, leave them without a run and very few clues.

The breeze and chill swirled about AT&T Park, leaving the fans as cold as the Giants' bats. The 54th straight sellout crowd, 42,013, watched the home team get baffled by Cliff Lee, the man who got $120 million to try to make the Phils champions.

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RealClearSports: Randy Moss: Brilliant and Bewildering

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

The apparent departure of Randy Moss from the NFL — one never can be certain when athletes announce they are retiring — brings to mind the adage about the glass being half full or the head being half empty. Or something close enough.

Moss was one of those skilled athletes who was part awe, part irritation and part, "It's my world, and you're never going to figure me out.''

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SF Examiner: Vogelsong, lineup step up when San Francisco Giants need it most

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

He walked toward the dugout with his head down, but there was nothing symbolic about his posture.

That’s the way pitchers are supposed to appear as they leave the mound to a standing ovation, which on this very significant Wednesday afternoon, Ryan Vogelsong and the Giants deserved entirely.

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