ORLANDO, Fla. – The book on Tiger Woods' downfall has been written. It's called "The Big Miss," by former swing coach Hank Haney. It comes out Tuesday.

Do we even need to read it?

Sunday's emphatic win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational did two things for the former No. 1 golfer in the world: It showed that his career no longer is in a desperate freefall, and it shows that we may have found a saturation point in Tiger bashing.

The sight of Tiger Woods on the 18th green, flashing a huge smile and lifting his cap toward the sky, may have signaled a sea change in how the scandal-besmirched golfer is viewed. It's possible the worst now has passed – and that the final thunderclap of doom has sounded with this book.

Maybe, finally, enough is enough.

After all, what will we really learn in Haney's scathing tell-all about his former client? Tiger Woods is cold. We knew that. He's cheap. We knew that. He wasn't a good husband all the time. We sure knew that. And he was as reckless in his rehab

ORLANDO, Fla. – What used to seem inevitable now comes as a revelation: Tiger Woods has won a golf tournament.

What used to be so familiar has turned into something refreshing: Tiger Woods emphatically vanquished a field on a Sunday.

And what used to be so rote now comes as a feeling of déjà vu: Tiger Woods is heading to the Masters with a head of steam and a look of triumph.

Woods turned a precarious one-stroke lead entering Sunday's final round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational into a five-stroke statement for his first PGA Tour win since the BMW Championship in September 2009. That victory came two months before a minor car accident, at his home only miles from this Bay Hill course, which turned into one of the biggest sports scandals in history. A Pandora's Box of past philandering and poor behavior opened for the world to see, and Woods' reputation was permanently besotted. He won six tournaments earlier that year, but in the insular world of the sport he played, there were both

We forget. Every day, we forget. We forget names, numbers, dates, where we left our keys, even what we were thinking a few seconds before. Sometimes it's a nuisance, sometimes it's embarrassing, and sometimes it's frightening. Imagine how great life would be if we could just remember better.

These people can help.

They are athletes of a sort. Competitors. Except the muscle they tone and exercise is their brain. They are entrants in the USA Memory Championships, held this weekend in New York City. Their events include memorizing 99 names, a shuffled deck of cards, a poem and a list of 500 words. Now, none of this helps you or me get through daily life. But the tricks of their trade certainly will.

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Here are some of the best:

• Exercise: Seriously. You may think of "mental athletes" as MENSA dorks who eat Cheetos and study flashcards, but the best brains need bodies that work out.

"If you have a healthy body, you'd better have a healthy mind," says

America has found its latest March Madness hero: a blur in green and gold named Kyle O'Quinn.

The 6-foot-10 senior out of Queens, N.Y., who barely knew the basic terminology of basketball when he came out of high school, led tiny Norfolk State to one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history – an 86-84 stunner over 20-point favorite Missouri on Friday night in Omaha, Neb.

It marked only the fifth time a No. 15 seed had knocked off a No. 2 seed, and it was largely due to O'Quinn's 26 points and 14 rebounds.

Unheralded Norfolk State, champion of the unheralded Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, got its first win against a ranked opponent on the biggest of stages. The upset came in the program's first-ever NCAA tournament game and sets up a meeting with Florida on Sunday with a trip to the Sweet 16 on the line.

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O'Quinn had only one scholarship offer – from Norfolk State, whose in-state annual tuition is slightly more than $7,000. Yet

The world saw him do the wrong thing, but then Fred Brown did the brave thing.

Thirty years ago this month, Brown made one of the most memorable mistakes in college basketball history by throwing the ball to the wrong team with less than 10 seconds left in Georgetown's national title game against North Carolina.

The bad pass gave North Carolina one of the most heralded titles ever. But moments after the crushing loss in New Orleans' Superdome, the then-21-year-old Brown did something way beyond his years: He answered questions about his gaffe in front of 100 reporters for as long as they kept asking. The media was so impressed, reported a young Washington Post writer named Michael Wilbon, that many thanked Brown and shook his hand.

"How can you be so composed?" someone asked Brown.

"This is part of growing up," he said.

It was not the first time Brown was strong in the face of difficulty, and not the last. This month, 30 years later, Brown, now 50, plans to go back to New Orleans for

SAVANNAH, Ga. – "It's March," Horace Broadnax says with a smile, "and that means something magical is getting ready to happen."

He's right. Something magical is getting ready to happen. And it's happening right in front of him. A Savannah State team that was 0-28 the year before Broadnax took over as coach in 2005 and 2-28 in his first season has 21 wins and a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference regular-season title in its first year in the league. The Tigers, built with a bunch of players who came to play at arguably the worst basketball program in the country, are the No. 1 seed in the MEAC tourney and have a shot at a NCAA tournament bid.

Something magical has happened in front of Broadnax before. Back in the mid-'90s, he took over Valencia Community College in Orlando and won nine games his first year followed by 20 in his second. He then left for Bethune-Cookman, another MEAC school, where he won a single game in his first season in 1997-98 and 11 in his second.

So Broadnax – who

ORLANDO, Fla. – Five cameras circled an empty chair for 45 minutes.

They – and their operators – waited patiently for Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant at All-Star media availability on Friday. And waited. And waited.

This, by the way, was the same chair occupied by Dwight Howard during his 45-minute rap session. The Orlando Magic center faced innumerable questions about his future – including one from a child who wanted to know where he would be playing next season.

But time ticked away on Bryant, with reporters wondering if they'd ever get to ask about his game, about Pau Gasol or about whether he's back with Vanessa.

There was the expected grumbling and grousing. "My back hurts," one reporter said. "He makes more in 1/10th of a second of a game than I do in a year."

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One member of the foreign press seemed shocked that Kobe would not show up, even though it's been done by the likes of Michael Jordan. These guys can afford to

Let's hear it for Plan B. As in Beltre.

Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre(notes), with three home runs in a 4-3 American League Division Series-clinching victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, nearly punctured a hole not only in the Tropicana Field roof, but also in the idea that Cliff Lee(notes) was necessary to keep up with the eastern powers.

Beltre tied a major league record for homers in a postseason game and was the first ever to belt three in a division series contest. He joins five others who have accomplished the feat in the playoffs, among them Babe Ruth, George Brett and, of course, Reggie Jackson.

Beltre, you'll recall, was the Rangers' second choice last offseason. He was the guy the team could get since it couldn't convince star left-handed starter Lee to stay.

Not many thought Beltre could own a division series game against the Rays the way Lee did last year.

Well.

To say Beltre won this game by himself is almost an understatement. Jeremy Hellickson(notes)