Monday, April 22, 2013

Woman finds thousands in cash at golf course

Castillo works on the Miami Beach Golf Course serving drinks to golfers. That day, soccer cleats golfers alerted her to a bag left sitting on a bench. In that bag, she found the identification of a 76-year-old man, who, police believe, was in declining health.

7New was unable to contact the elderly man, as police said, he now lives in assisted care, but police praise Castillo as a hero who did the right thing by contacting police immediately and returning the money. Miami Beach Police Sgt. Bobby Hernandez said, "Well, he is in an assisted living facility right now. He might have a medical condition. That's undetermined. We are in touch with the family members getting more information, but we have identified that money as his through different transactions that he made. But it's nice that there's people out there ... soccer shoe $36,000 is what a lot of people make a year."

Castillo said that the amount of this money she found was basically the equivalent soccer shoes for sale to a full year's pay for her, and yet she gave it all back. "I believe in the Bible," she said. "I'm a Christian, and the Bible says, 'Do not steal, do not lie,' you know, all these things, and if you do what's right, if you live the right way, you'll be taken care of. I believe I'll be taken care of ... if you do what's right."

Monday, April 8, 2013

Tiger Woods Is No. 1 Again, But Golf Hardly Missed Him

When the career of golf's top player and biggest star was in free fall in 2010, the brain trust of professional golf in the U.S. gathered in their Florida headquarters to contemplate life after Tiger Woods.

Huddling with consultants from their Austin, Texas, advertising firm, senior executives at the PGA Tour tried to figure out how to persuade fans, sponsors and television networks to stay invested in a sport whose biggest draw had been disgraced. The golf world looked like it was about to go through a difficult generational transition.
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"Every 10 to 15 years you have a passing of the baton from one face to the other," says Ty Votaw, the tour's executive vice president. "We were about at that 15-year mark with Tiger." There was one problem, though—there wasn't any obvious candidate ready to grab the torch from Mr. Woods, and the consensus among sports-industry executives was that professional golf was headed for trouble.