Cool first day at the Venetian yesterday for the start of the NAPT event. My sense at day’s end was that most everyone — players, tourney organizers, media — felt it more than met expectations. As you’ve probably read elsewhere, the turnout was huge, with 872 players altogether, making the prize pool somewhere in the neighborhood of $4 million

Rule #1 for reading your NSFW email forwards at work: make sure a live tv camera is not looking over your shoulder. Evidently this cubicle jockey at Macquarie Bank in Australia forgot about the evening news report happening just behind him as he proceeded to check out a few models in his inbox

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J.D. Salinger died on Wednesday at age 91.

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