Wie don’t care anymore (PGA)

A number of can’t miss phenoms have done something strange this decade: they haven’t missed. From LeBron James to Sidney Crosby, prodigies everywhere have been managing the pressure and meeting expectations like there weren’t any. An NBA finals appearance here, a Hart trophy there, the 2000s’ “next generation” has escaped the disappointment and talk of “what might have been” that usually comes hand in hand with teenage anointment. It used to be that no one could ever live up to the hype, now they are transcending it. Well, almost all of them are. Of all the 2000s’ young guns, the strangest may have been a 13-year-old Hawaiian golf princess. It was certainly different than a basketball prodigy from Ohio or hockey phenomenon from Canada, but Michelle Wie burst on to the scene with all the pomp, fanfare and Nike contracts of any... [read full story]