( CBS New York ) — Golf may seem to be an individual sport. When a player steps up to address that little white ball, that player looks to be very much alone. But that player brings with them the accumulated knowledge and training bestowed upon them by a team of individuals. It could be counsel from a knowledgeable caddie received moments before. It could swing adjustments made by a coach the previous week. And, in Dottie Pepper’s case, it could be the wise words of a mentor along her path to stardom. Pepper is currently CBS Sports’ on-course reporter during its run of PGA Tour events. But she was previously a longtime player on the LPGA Tour, where she won 17 events including two major championships. Pepper did not ascend to such heights in the game alone. She had the help of George Pulver , the longtime Head Professional at both McGregor Links and Saratoga Golf & Polo, near her native Saratoga Springs, New York. In her formative years, it was his advice that helped guide her to NYS Women’s Amateur (1981) and NYS Girls’ Junior (1981, 1983). READ MORE: Brad Stevens Reportedly Wasn't Interested In $70 Million Offer From Indiana In Pepper’s new book, Letters to a Future Champion: My Time with Mr. Pulver , she pays tribute to the former mentor, who helped craft her skills on the course and her character as a player. She kept his letters in a binder as “my reference book for all things golf.” “I’ve come to realize the binder is much more,” Pepper said. “It is a blueprint for honoring the history and traditions of the game of golf; it also is about mentorship, beliefs, curiosity, grit, grace, dreams, disappointment, success, and the value of education.” READ MORE: Red Sox Blow Out White Sox In Patriots' Day Game At Fenway Park Modern players might also find some value in the words of Mr. Pulver. Dustin Johnson is ranked number one in the world. While he’s coming off a tie for 13th at the RBC Heritage, he missed the cut at the Masters, where he ...
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Justice Barrett Gets $2 Million Deal to Tell Readers What They Don’t Want to Hear
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has a cushy book deal. Photo: Pool/Getty Images This news from the publishing industry via Politico is pretty interesting: Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s last pick for the Supreme Court, has … sold a book — garnering a $2 million advance for a tome about how judges are not supposed to bring their personal feelings into how they rule, according to three publishing industry sources. The figure was “an eye-raising amount” for a Supreme Court justice and likely the most since book deals won by Clarence Thomas and Sandra Day O’Connor, one of the people added. You have to figure most of the people who will put down legal tender for a Barrett book are fans of her, of Donald Trump, and the cultural conservatism they believe she will eventually bring to the Court once she has settled in. Indeed, the reason her nomination was greeted with so many huzzahs from the Right is because it was assumed her “personal feelings” as an observant Catholic and as a professor at a Catholic university would be brought to bear on abortion jurisprudence, making her potentially that fifth critical vote to overturn Roe v. Wade . As Senator Elizabeth Warren observed in the Cut when Barrett was first nominated, Barrett’s “personal feelings” — amplified by the fact that, as a woman, she couldn’t be accused of not understanding how women regard reproductive issues — were precisely why Trump nominated her: [O] ver , and over , and over again, President Trump has bragged about his plans to appoint judges who would “automatically” overturn Roe … Barrett is Trump’s ideal candidate to accomplish his plans. In 2006, she signed a newspaper ad calling for the end of Roe and describing the decision as “barbaric.” She was a member of an anti-choice group while on the University of Notre Dame faculty. She’s also been critical of the Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court’s past decision to uphold the law in court. Her ...
Punter Pressley Harvin III is a big presence in NFL draft
It wasn’t just Pressley Harvin III’s powerful right leg that NFL scouts wanted to see at Georgia Tech’s pro day. They had to get a look at this plump punter’s robust right arm, too. “I had a feeling it was going to come up,” said Harvin, the 2020 Ray Guy Award winner as the top punter in college football. “That’s another attribute I can bring to the table.” Harvin, who packs 263 pounds on his 6-foot frame, set school and ACC single-season records last year with a 48-yard net punting average. He can throw the football just as far and as accurately as he can punt it. His 43-yard dime to Nathan Cottrell on a fake punt helped the Yellow Jackets beat Miami in 2019. He heaved the pass from his 48 and Cottrell caught it in stride at the Hurricanes 9 before tumbling into the end zone. “I’ve always been humble with it because I’ve never been a cocky guy,” Harvin said. “But just being able to be versatile at punter is a thing that a lot of teams don’t have, and I’m thankful to be able to do it here at Georgia Tech these last four years. “And you know, one of my favorite moments was throwing that touchdown against Miami. That’s one of the remarkable things that I can do instead of the ball just hitting my foot, and I try to help the team out in any type of way I can.” Yellow Jackets coach Geoff Collins said Harvin’s versatility made both his offense and defense more potent. “The biggest thing is he can just flip the field,” Collins said. “And there’s the threat of a fake every single time we go to a special teams play. That’s another dimension that Pressley was able to bring us.” Harvin can relate to Denver Broncos kicker Brandon McManus, who despises being called a kicker because he figures he’s really just a superb athlete who happens to be great at putting footballs through goal posts. In Harvin’s case, he doesn’t want to be pigeonholed as a prototypical punter. “We have this thing called, ‘punters are people, too,’” Harvin said. “And it’s ...
Navalny’s Doctor: Putin Critic ‘Could Die at Any Moment’
MOSCOW - A doctor for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, says his health is deteriorating rapidly and the 44-year-old Kremlin critic could be on the verge of death. Physician Yaroslav Ashikhmin said Saturday that test results he received from Navalny's family showed him with sharply elevated levels of potassium, which can bring on cardiac arrest, and heightened creatinine levels that indicate impaired kidneys. "Our patient could die at any moment," he said in a Facebook post. Anastasia Vasilyeva, head of the Navalny-backed Alliance of Doctors union, said on Twitter that "action must be taken immediately." Navalny is Russian President Vladimir Putin's most visible and adamant opponent. His personal physicians have not been allowed to see him in prison. He went on a hunger strike to protest the refusal to let them visit when he began experiencing severe back pain and a loss of feeling in his legs. Russia's state penitentiary service has said that Navalny is receiving all the medical help he needs. Navalny was arrested on January 17 when he returned to Russia from Germany, where had spent five months recovering from Soviet nerve-agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin. Russian officials denied any involvement and even questioned whether Navalny had been poisoned, though it was confirmed by several European laboratories. He was ordered to serve 2½ years in prison on the ground that his long recovery in Germany violated a suspended sentence he had been given for a fraud conviction. Navalny said that case was politically motivated. ...
Dallas Area Meals On Wheels Clients Get COVID-19 Vaccine Home-Delivered
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Every vaccine, a victory. That’s the mindset as a plan to provide at-home COVID-19 vaccinations relaunched in Dallas on Monday, April 19. READ MORE: $40M In Renovations Planned For Fort Worth's Heritage Park The effort is a partnership between the City of Dallas and the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas, which runs the Meals on Wheels program. Meals on Wheels is an everyday lifeline for the homebound and disabled, but now they’re getting a lot more than a hot lunch. They’re getting the COVID-19 vaccine delivered. “These are the clients from Meals on Wheels that are most likely not going to be able to go out to one of the megacenters, or a clinic, or even a pharmacy,” says Chris Culak, with VNA Texas. “Of course, last week we were going to do this, we were going to start with Johnson & Johnson. But because of the pause, we kind of retooled and we pulled Moderna instead and we are going to come out and give people the vaccine when we can.” Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedics administer the life-saving doses. They say it feels good to be working towards prevention. READ MORE: Dallas Police Chief Limiting Time Off As Jurors Deliberate Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin's Fate “We’re doing our part,” one responded while returning to a client’s home to do the follow up check after 15 minutes. “That’s all we can do, right?” According to the Visiting Nurse Association, roughly 300 clients in Dallas have requested the in-home vaccinations. The Dallas effort builds on a successful trial run in southern Dallas County suburbs earlier this year: bringing vaccines to the most isolated, and least able to access the vaccines. “Every one of them are telling us stories of how they haven’t left their homes in a year, they can’t see their family or friends or can’t really go out and interact in the public,” says Culak, “and now that they’re getting their vaccine, they’ll have that opportunity to do that.” Organizers expect to ...
