Girl Golfer Makes PGA History
Only three women have ever played alongside the best male golfers in the world in a PGA event. After leaving their marks on PGA history, Suzy Whaley swiftly returned to her life as a club pro and Annika Sorenstam decided to focus on the women's tour. This past weekend at the Sony Open in Waialae, Hawaii, the men saw a glimpse of the future: 14-year-old Michelle Wie.
The high school freshman shot a 68, the lowest score ever by a female competing against the guys. She finished tied with some of the tour's elite players, including last year's British Open champion, Ben Curtis. Michelle produced the best score ever by a woman relative to the cut, missing it by just one stroke.
"Just one more shot and I would have made it,'' Michelle said. "It's killing me.''
Comparisons to Tiger Woods are coming fast and furiously. And while the honor student wants to eventually turn pro, she's determined to finish high school and plans to attend college, maybe even following in Tiger's footsteps by going to Stanford.
A Horse, Buggy, and Reality TV Sex in the City was a big hit. But what about Amish in the City? That's the name of UPN's latest reality series. Unveiled at the Television Critics Association in Los Angeles on Sunday, the new show will focus on five Amish teenagers who experience life outside their Amish communities for the first time. The reality series will follow Amish teens as they complete the rite of passage called rumspringa, which means "running wild." In the ritual Amish teenagers must go into mainstream society to see if they want to continue their Amish way of life—one that shuns modern conveniences like electricity and automobiles and keeps separate from the world at large. They can either return and be baptized by the Amish church or choose to leave the community for good.
UPN entertainment president Dawn Ostroff insists that the show won't exploit the sheltered teenagers, but will show viewers "the world through their eyes as they encounter things for the first time and see things and live things that we all take for granted."
What's In a Name?
All Mike Rowe wanted to do was come up with a catchy name for his Web site design business. So the17-year-old from British Columbia, Canada, decided on MikeRoweSoft. It had a certain ring to it. He liked it. He registered the domain name. And that's when the trouble began.
In November, lawyers for Microsoft sent him a letter. They told him he was committing copyright infringement and recommended that he transfer the name to the software giant. He wrote back, asking for compensation. And Microsoft obliged—by offering him $10. Mike was insulted. So he did what any self-respecting teenager would do and wrote back, asking for $10,000. Last week, Microsoft lawyers sent a 25-page letter accusing the gutsy computer geek of trying to force the company to pay up. Mike insists that he never planned to ask for money, but that he was "sort of mad" that the multibillion-dollar corporation only offered him 10 bucks. And anyway, he says, "It's not their name. It's my name. I just think it's kind of funny that they'd go after a 17-year-old."
