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gerard Gallagher

• By Golf Digest, on Charles Barkley's swing:

• By the The Atlantic, on golf in the Olympics:

• By NPR, on Lorena Ochoa's retirement:

"Ochoa has always maintained that she would step away from golf sooner than we thought, much like the previous women's No. 1, Annika Sorenstam, who announced her own retirement less than two years ago," writes Gerard Gallagher, golf editor at The Sports Network.

Actually, according to Gerard Gallagher in a lengthy piece featuring quotes from Charles Barkley and Hank Haney, about every element of the recently shuttered reality show is addressed (well, except if cameras were on hand this night.)

Charles Barkley gets golf tips wherever he goes, even the dry cleaners. He walks through the supermarket and they wish him luck.

"Little old ladies walking the street want to give me advice, and it makes me laugh," Barkley said. "Everybody gives me golf advice."

And...

"I felt bad, to be honest with you, that I didn't improve more for him," said Barkley.

"People were surprised that somebody at my level of success through my life would basically put himself in a situation where you can be humiliated on a weekly basis," he said.

So they try to help him, at the cleaners and the supermarket and on the street ...

It Has Global Allure, writes Gerard Gallagher at the Sports Network: "Golf's worldwide appeal is why the sport makes such an attractive addition to the Olympics...Every inhabited continent would have a representative," he argues. "One of the reasons baseball and softball were dropped following the Beijing Games last summer was that those sports only appealed to a narrow base of competing countries."