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Steve Rushin

American Journalist

Born: Sep 22, 1966

About Every Game Golf Sports You

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In golf, a wedge issue means just that: You can't hit your sand wedge, or your lob wedge needs to be regrooved. In politics, a wedge issue is more serious still: It's one that splits the electorate, dividing voters along ideological fault lines. Steve Rushin

Putting is so difficult, so universally vexing, that the best the pros can do is tell us how to miss. 'Miss it on the pro side,' they say, meaning miss it above the hole. I can't even do that consistently. I miss it on the pro side. I miss it on the amateur side. I miss it on both sides of the clown's mouth. Steve Rushin

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I can't putt. The reasons are infinite. When lining up a putt, I can't remember if the ball always breaks to the ocean or to the valley or away from Pinnacle Peak. And because I took up the game in Minnesota, in what is often called Middle America, I also grew up asking, 'To which ocean does it break?' Steve Rushin

Game Remember Ocean Took Valley Minnesota Putt Also Because Ball Does Always Pinnacle Lining Up America Infinite Often Middle Grew Break Which Breaks Asking Reasons Away Peak

After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range. Steve Rushin

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The first words Rebecca Lobo ever spoke to me when we met in a Manhattan bar in 2001 were, 'Aren't you the guy who just mocked women's basketball in 'Sports Illustrated'?' I blushed, broke out in a flop sweat and said, 'Yes.' Steve Rushin

Me You Sports Women Words First Met Broke Out Guy Spoke Sports Illustrated Said Were Yes Mocked Just Manhattan Bar Sweat Who Ever Illustrated Flop Basketball

As a kid, I didn't know that 'All in the Family' was satirizing male chauvinism or that Bobby Riggs was a self-promoting put-on. Many of us didn't get the irony and went on making fun of women and girls who wanted to play sports, especially the same sports that men and boys traditionally played. Steve Rushin

For most of the twentieth century, a Minnesotan abroad could fix his home state in the cosmos by invoking for his hosts the name Charles Lindbergh or Bob Dylan, native sons who were claimed by the world and never really returned to the Gopher State. Steve Rushin

Home World State Claimed Charles Cosmos Abroad Could Never Hosts Sons Name Invoking Most Returned Were His Fix Native Dylan Century Bob Bob Dylan Really Who Home State Twentieth Twentieth Century

Solitary pursuits like playing video games and skateboarding can't compete with the thrill of mobbing a teammate as he scores the winning run - nor do they end with a postgame trip to Dairy Queen. Steve Rushin

Growing up in Bloomington, Minn., I loved the ritual of dressing for Little League - in white socks, blue stirrups, belted pants, a double-knit jersey, and the cap I'd hold over my face to screen out mosquitoes in right field. Steve Rushin

When people ask if Marquette University is in Michigan, and I tell them my alma mater is in Milwaukee, they sometimes say, 'What's the difference?' Steve Rushin

People Sometimes Say Tell Michigan Difference Them Ask University Milwaukee

I spent a year slaving over a hot rollergrill in a Metrodome concession stand and watched the World Series there - and a Super Bowl and a Final Four. I can honestly say - regardless of outcome - that I left every game floating on air. Steve Rushin

Game World Year Every Honestly Final Air Say Spent Outcome Super Super Bowl Hot Over Bowl Concession Left Regardless Stand Series Floating Four Watched World Series

The Metrodome was built for football. Fans seated down the third-base line at a baseball game faced centerfield, so that they had to turn and look over their right shoulders to see home plate. Steve Rushin

The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path. Steve Rushin

Path Everything Phrase Combine League Because Always Redundant Sounds Reaping

Hurricane Irene's advance coverage was heavy on worst-case scenarios. Thank goodness they didn't pan out. Steve Rushin

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In 2007, Prince performed at the halftime of the Super Bowl. The stage in Miami was wreathed in purple light, and it poured during his performance, so that he played 'Purple Rain' in a purple rain. Steve Rushin

Rain Light Stage Super Super Bowl Purple Poured He Performance Performed Prince Bowl Halftime His Miami Played

In any other context, 'icing' is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus - a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee's raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime. Steve Rushin

Great Wonderful Cake Word Bonus Other Top Oath Deity Results Instance Exciting Merely Another Context Proverbial His Referee Hand Wonderful Thing Any Hockey Icing Swearing Downtime Right Thing Raising Right Hand

With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse. Steve Rushin

As good as NFL Films is at making players human, it's even better at making players superhuman. No Hollywood studio has made movies that are more grand or gorgeous. Every meticulous shot of 'Hard Knocks' is a vision: every slow-motion spiral, every shaved head steaming like a Manhattan manhole cover. Steve Rushin

Good Vision Better Gorgeous Made Every Films Spiral Superhuman More Studio Head Knocks Like Shaved Making Cover Meticulous Human Manhattan Grand Movies Hollywood Shot Hard Even Players

Everything gleamed or glinted on TV in the '70s, from the 'flavor crystals' in Folgers coffee to the yellow dentures dipped in Polident and instantly restored to pristine, piano-key whiteness. Steve Rushin

Coffee Everything TV Restored Instantly Crystals Pristine Yellow Flavor Whiteness

Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite - they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival. Steve Rushin

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