Sport: One for the 19th

There is nothing more humiliating than to step up to a golf ball, plant your feet (closed stance), set your hands (interlocking grip), wiggle your hips (pros call it "waggle"), swing mightily, and miss. When it happens to a pro athlete—ha! —there's one for the 19th hole.

In Miami Beach it happened to Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston. "Get this!" he yelled to a photographer. Whoosh! He whiffed. Ouch! He wrenched his left knee. That was more than a month ago. But last week Listen's knee still hurt, so much that he limped right out of his return bout with Floyd Patterson.

Still, it...

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