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Ken Venturi, US Open champion and CBS analyst, dies

...Dey, the executive director of the USGA, looked over his shoulder, checked the scores and told him to sign it.Sports Illustrated honored him as its "Sportsman of the Year" in 1964.Venturi won three more times, his last win coming in 1966...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2013-05-17/ken-venturi-us-open-champion
Litke: Orb trainer Shug McGaughey gets his shot at glory

...their company as he is among family members."When I was first starting out in the business," McGaughey told Sports Illustrated recently, "people would come to me and ask if I wanted to train some of their horses, and I'd tell them...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/other-sports/2013-05-17/litke-orb-trainer-sh
Ex-Louisville administrator Julie Hermann named Rutgers AD

...players were his top priorities.The athletic department has been responding to a story in the latest edition of Sports Illustrated that questioned the quality of care and the motivations behind the removal of longtime team doctor Wayne Sebastianelli...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/college/2013-05-15/ex-louisville-administrat
Golf gets some needed drama

...violating the rules that every player agreed to abide by.Doesn't seem to matter that Singh incriminated himself in a Sports Illustrated story with his laughable comments about using the explicitly banned deer-antler spray. Then he outed everything...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2013-05-13/golf-gets-some-needed-drama
David Beckham's brand unlikely to fade

...at Paris Saint-Germain, the French soccer club where he's ending his career, Beckham topped this year's Sports Illustrated list of 20 highest-earning international athletes (his estimated $48 million in earnings ? most from sponsorship...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/other-sports/2013-05-17/david-beckhams-brand
Marshals accounts differ on Woods-Garcia dispute

...play my shot," Woods said.It became testy when Sports Illustrated quoted two marshals as saying they told Woods no...Web sites had the word "lied" in its headlines.Sports Illustrated posted an update on its Web site Wednesday that...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2013-05-15/marshals-accounts-differ-woo
Questions about integrity overshadow Tiger Woods' play

...interview, "The marshals, they told me he already hit, so I pulled a club and was getting ready to play my shot."Sports Illustrated talked to the chief marshal for that section of the course, John North."Nothing was said to us and we certainly...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2013-05-14/questions-about-integrity-ov
Vijay Singh sues PGA Tour for defamation

...Players Championship.The 50-year-old Fijian, inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2006, said in a Sports Illustrated article in January that he used deer antler spray and he was "looking forward to some change in my body." The...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2013-05-08/vijay-singh-sues-pga-tour-de
TV viewer who noticed Woods' illegal drop in Masters revealed

...viewer who reported the illegal drop Tiger Woods took during the Masters Tournament was more than just a golf fan.Sports Illustrated reports it was David Eger, a rules expert who has worked for the U.S. Golf Association and the PGA Tour and played...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2013-05-01/viewer-who-noticed-woods-bad
NBA veteran Jason Collins comes out in first for major league

...player in one of four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay.In an article posted Mon day on Sports Illustrated's Web site, Collins begins: "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay."Collins has...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/nba/2013-04-29/nba-veteran-jason-collins-com