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Woods' 2000 AT&T win has quiet ring

Last updated Monday, February 6, 2012 - 8:32pm

It's well documented that Tiger Woods hasn't played in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in a decade, and he won it just once in 2000, his lone victory in six tries between 1997 and 2002.

Strangely, Woods' 2000 AT&T victory hasn't stood the test of time very well--and there are reasons for that--but that's an injustice in golf history. Even if the memory of it is now largely hazy, it still stands as one of the most amazing and electrifying victories among Tiger's 71 PGA Tour wins.

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History points against a Giants repeat

Carl Steward, The Oakland Tribune

Last updated Sunday, April 3, 2011 - 4:11pm

Random historical facts that illustrate the challenge the Giants face in repeating their 2010 championship accomplishments:

In their San Francisco history, the Giants have never managed two first-place divisional finishes in a row and were at least seven games worse the next season after the six years in which they did finish in first place.

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Baseball will miss the retiring Randy Johnson

Carl Steward The Oakland Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 11:12pm

True to the spirit of his astounding longevity, Randy Johnson conducted an exhaustive 43-minute retirement news conference Tuesday, even joking near its conclusion that most people had probably hung up on his long-winded goodbye.

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Cathrea has a good excuse to skip class this week: an LPGA tournament

Carl Steward Contra Costa Times

Last updated Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 7:31pm

Casie Cathrea is missing her freshman biology test at Livermore (Calif.) High on Thursday. Sheâ€™s playing golf. The best part? She has the full blessing of her teacher.

â€œI told him I had to miss the test because I was playing in a tournament,â€ she said. â€œHe asked what tournament and I said the LPGA. He was like, â€œWow, youâ€™re there already?â€â€™

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Rickey Henderson brought the Athletics back to life in the late 1980s

Carl Steward

Last updated Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 6:37pm

History has been made in some fascinating places. For Rickey Henderson and the Oakland Athletics, it occurred in a glass box in Marin County, Calif., on June 21, 1989.
"You have to remember, it was the era before cell phones," former general manager Sandy Alderson said. "So what I recall most about the deal for Rickey now is that I closed it from a phone booth in Mill Valley."
Struggling in New York, where he had spent five years after being traded by Alderson to the Yankees in 1984, Henderson was reborn by the deal that returned him to his hometown. It launched a three-year period that were the most productive and memorable of Rickey's career.

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