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Former Knicks guard Williams battles colon cancer
Former Knicks guard Ray Williams is battling cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. “Yeah, it’s colon cancer,’’ Gus Williams, Ray’s older brother who also played in the NBA, told The...
10-year-old qualifies for women's U.S. Amateur
Better watch out, Michelle Wie. Here comes Lantanna Stone. A 10-year-old golfer from Valrico, Fla., Stone will be shooting for the U.S. Women’s Amateur championship next month in Ohio after...
OUR MAN VECSEY JOINING HOOP GREATS IN SPRINGFIELD
Peter Vecsey, the ultimate NBA insider, is heading inside the Basketball Hall of Fame. Vecsey, The Post's NBA columnist nationally renowned for his irreverent, always ahead-of-the-curve "Hoop Du Jour," will...
LONE OPEN TITLE TOPS PALMER'S LIST
Nobody knows U.S. Open heartbreak like Arnold Palmer. The King played in 32 Opens, but only once did he emerge victorious. Thirteen times, Arnie finished in the top 10, and...
CONNECTICUT GOOD GROUND FOR GOLFERS
Now is a good time to grab your clubs and head east to Connecticut. The Nutmeg State has a bunch of decent public courses, many of them no more than...
GARRISON'S MOJO IS BACK
Scenic views, beautiful people, sassy layout. The only thing Garrison Golf Club needed was a little love. This one-time playground for the likes of Madonna and Boy George a few...
COLORS OF BETH PAGE
Sure, everybody knows how great the Black Course is at Bethpage State Park. Everybody knows it's one of the nation's top-ranked courses and, yeah, it's going to host the 2009...
GOLF AUTHOR'S GOOD FIGHT
Here's the book on Bob Labbance: He loves golf, he loves the Yankees and he has Lou Gehrig's disease. "Hey, at least I have a disease named after a famous...
BILL ON PHIL
Bill White was vacationing in Canada when he got the sad phone call Tuesday from Phil Rizzuto's family. "Well, I had seen Phil 10 days ago," White told The Post...
BRITTANY'S CRANKING UP FOR MATCH PLAY DEFENSE
Brittany Lincicome is champing at the bit as she counts down the days until she defends her title at next month's HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship. Fresh off a...
HARRIS BANKS WITH COMMERCE
John Harris took his golf game to the "next level" when he won the Commerce Bank Championship last year at Eisenhower Park's Red Course. This year he wants to go...
HANK NEVER THOUGHT IN BLACK AND WHITE
IN 1955, when the time finally had come to integrate the Yankees, Hank Bauer came through in the clutch - like he did so many times during his 14-year major-league...
TRUMP 'APPRENTICE' CAPTURES MET OPEN
John Guyton got a phone call from Donald Trump after winning the 91st Met Open yesterday. "He just said congratulations and good going," said Guyton, the 29-year-old first-year assistant pro...
VIC POWER DEAD AT 78
Vic Power, the flashy first baseman who almost became the first black player for the Yankees, died yesterday. He was 78. Power, one of the major leagues' first Hispanic players,...
RICH HISTORY PAR FOR COURSE - PAST MEETS PRESENT AT HISTORIC BALTUSROL
Ahh! Baltusrol. It's a big, bad pastoral wonderland which happens to be the fiercest battleground in American golf history. No club has such a rich, colorful history as Baltusrol, which...
THE BIG APPLE OPEN - THE BEST 18 PUBLIC HOLES IN METRO AREA
Wait! You don't need to schlep all the way to Pinehurst or sneak onto Baltusrol this summer to play a U.S. Open-caliber golf hole. Right here, within a 50-mile radius...
THORPE EYES 3-PEAT
Take it from Jim Thorpe: Winning the $1.5 million Commerce Bank Championship at Eisenhower Park for a third straight year won't be easy. "It's going to be tough," said Thorpe,...
YOU'LL 'FALL' IN LOVE WITH PATRIOT HILLS
N.Y. GOLF It's autumn. Leaves are still on the trees and it's not so hard getting tee times. Here are five courses worth playing this fall:Patriot Hills - Scenic Rockland...
A GOOD WALK SPOILED
You're playing golf, walking down the fairway. Suddenly, you slip and fall head-first into a water hazard. Your head bangs into a rock and you become paralyzed. Seems like a...
HYBRIDS: THE CURE FOR IRON DEFICIENCY
N.Y. GOLF As golfers get older, sometimes they become afflicted with a terrible malady known as iron deficiency, and it has nothing to do with blood. There's no need to...