Watchdog

Here is the main part of my Friday newspaper column. It's about golf and tennis, but doesn't mention Maria Sharapova.

I found it on our Web site before 9 p.m. Pretty soon my Friday columns are going to start showing up on Newsday.com on Wednesday.

It's a strange new world. The rest of the column will appear automatically on the site overnight via a computer feed of some sort. I will link to it in the morning.

I guess I'm just a lemming when it comes to sports fads. When tennis was big in my childhood and young adulthood I could not have imagined preferring to watch golf.

Now it's hard to imagine preferring tennis to golf, especially after last weekend.