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Six Degrees of Separation
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Justice John Paul Stevens is an avid golfer who shot a hole-in-one in 1990 when he was 70 years old. He also wrote the Supreme Court's majority opinion in the Casey Martin case, ruling with Solomon-like wisdom that under the Americans With Disabilities Act, Martin can ride in a golf cart in PGA Tour tournaments. |
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Martin attended Stanford, where he was a teammate with Tiger Woods, who shot his first hole-in-one at age 6 (after which his father tried to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize). |
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Tiger appeared on the "Mike Douglas Show" at age 2 in 1978, demonstrating his incredible putting ability in what is believed to be his final public appearance without a swoosh anywhere on his clothes. |
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Douglas always had a co-host for a week on his talk show, and in one week in 1972, his co-hosts were John Lennon and Yoko Ono. (No, we're not making that up. Lennon wanted Bobby Seales of the Black Panthers as a guest but the show's producers thought that was too controversial. Ralph Nader and Louis Nye appeared instead. Really.)
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Lennon and Paul McCartney appeared on "The Tonight Show" in 1968, the night, inexplicably, Johnny Carson was on vacation and the guest host was Joe Garagiola (really, we're not making this up). After being introduced, McCartney asked, "Ummmmm, where's Johnny?" (Honestly. We swear it's true.) |
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Garagiola asked Lennon and McCartney a lot of questions about the Yogi Maharishi, who is no relation to Yogi Berra, the Hall of Fame catcher and Garagiola's boyhood friend from St. Louis. Once asked whether he wanted his pizza sliced into four or six slices, Berra ruled in Solomon-like wisdom, "You better make it four. I don't think I can eat six pieces." |
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Jim Caple is a senior writer for ESPN.com.
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