Global Golf Post: Couples Takes The Walk Of Fame

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIFORNIA -- Oh, Riviera, glorious, historic Riviera, off Sunset Boulevard, in a canyon a mile from the Pacific, with Ben Hogan's statue next to the putting green, photos of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy lining the walls and a celebrity picture of Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby outside the men's locker room.

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Copyright 2011 Global Golf Post

RealClearSports: Wrong Time for Cursed Golfer Johnson

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. -- Golf isn't a sport, it's absurdity. Columnist Jim Murray, who used to belong to Riviera, where they're playing the Northern Trust Open this week, called golf the pursuit of the infinite.

It has rules out of the 19th Century. It has scenarios out of the pages of "Alice in Wonderland."

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© RealClearSports 2011

SF Examiner: Barry Bonds trial has finally reached point of exhaustion

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

The 7½-year itch. The government’s unrelenting attempt to convict Barry Bonds begins once again next month, yet another form of March Madness.

According to the best reports, the feds are now into taxpayers for $6 million in trying to prove Barry is guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice. And they’ll be spending a great deal more.

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Copyright 2011 SF Newspaper Company

RealClearSports: Open Champ Is Going Hollywood

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

LOS ANGELES -- He's here, Shrek, or as it says on the birth certificate, Lodewicus Theodorus Oosthuizen. Last weekend the Grammy Awards. This weekend, the NBA All-Star Game. And smack in the middle, the guy with the gap in his teeth but no holes in his golf game, Louis Oosthuizen, British Open Champion.

"I'm still looking around for the Hollywood sign,'' Oosthuizen insisted on Tuesday. "Once I see that I'll know in L.A. Yeah, I've never been here. Whenever you're here, you want to see that sign.''

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© RealClearSports 2011

LA Times: D.A. Points, Bill Murray win AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

By Art Spander
Special to the Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Pebble Beach — The golf tournament once known as the Bing Crosby now could be renamed the Bill Murray. The man known for his role as greenskeeper Carl Spackler in "Caddyshack," already a legend at Pebble Beach, is now a champion.

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