One of golf’s greatest journalists, Lorne Rubenstein, will now be a lot harder to find. Last week, at the bottom of a column on Canadian Ryan Yip, Lorne added this line: “Note: This is my final piece for The Globe and Mail, where I started my column in 1980. I appreciate your reading my work, whether in print, or, more recently, mostly online.” Lorne said today the Globe budget has no room for him as a freelancer. He said Shawna Richer, … [Read more...]
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Lorne Rubenstein era ends at the Globe
December 2, 2013 By Tim O'Connor
Filed Under: Blog, Columns, Golf Tagged With: Golf, journalism, Lorne Rubenstein, newspapers, The Globe and Mail, writing
Guelph Mercury: Your cheating heart will tell on you
July 31, 2013 By Tim O'Connor
(Originally published Feb 20, 2013) Don’t tell a lie, our parents told us. Even so, most of us tell a few every day, but they’re usually whites lies. Some are even meant to be nice: “You look great in that dress.” The majority of people learned early not to tell whoppers because the truth is nearly always discovered and we end up in way more trouble than if we tell the truth in the first place. Elite athletes caught using … [Read more...]
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