RealClearSports: Finals Are LeBron's Morality Play

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

It has gone from a sporting event to a morality play. Or maybe since last summer it always has been one.

We're not thinking of basketball in June, which is what should be the focus. We're trapped in a time warp. We're still caught up in that announcement last July. We'll never forgive LeBron James.

He did what was right, joining a team ...

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SF Examiner: Scrappy Giants getting by with what they've got

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

A veritable laugher by those offensively challenged Giants. A win with only a few grimaces. A win manager Bruce Bochy said was “important.” A win without anybody in the lineup batting higher than .290. A win because of that old, reliable pitching.

Every day is a party at AT&T Park, where the stands are full — Wednesday was the 27th consecutive sellout of 2011 — the games are torture and the town’s team is almost immune to the consequences.

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RealClearSports: Only Uncertainty in Tiger's Future

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

The contradictory words are employed too often in sports, disappointment and hope. Words at the essence of the games we play. Words from Tiger Woods, unable to compete in next week's U.S. Open.

Words which make us think about a future more questionable by the day.

We've heard the phrase, mostly in football where ...

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Global Golf Post: The 5 Greatest U.S. Open Championships: #2 - Stories Behind the Story

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

Oh, yes, the tale of Francis Ouimet and the U.S. Open, as well-chronicled as the story of that other historic event in the environs of old Boston town, the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

Breathes there a golfer not familiar with Ouimet and his wisp of a caddy, Eddie Lowery, and what they accomplished in 1913 at The Country Club?

What we know about Ouimet ...

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Global Golf Post: Watson To Be Honored At 2012 Memorial

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

DUBLIN, OHIO — Tom Watson was announced Sunday by the Captains Club as the honoree of the 2012 Memorial Tournament.

Watson won eight majors, including five British Opens, and is no less famous for losing a playoff in the British Open two years ago at age 59.

He follows Nancy Lopez, the 2011 honoree ...

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