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  • SF Weekly

    Identity Plagiarism

    A blogger steals someone else's life story and calls it her own.

    By Ashley Harrell

  • Westword

    Fuel's Gold

    How William Orr's quest for better, cheaper gas became a crime.

    By Alan Prendergast

  • Miami New Times

    Mold Over Miami

    The family of a dead judge blames a creeping fungus in the federal courthouse.

    By Tim Elfrink

  • The Pitch

    McCain Girl

    I worked at Kmart with John McCain's director of strategy.

    By Alan Scherstuhl

Wham-O Time

Frolfers air out hyzers and helixes in Scottsdale

By Chris Bowman

Published on March 06, 2008

Ever since desert dwellers figured out how to grow rye grass on top of dust, golf has been the most popular sport in town. And because so many folks wearing Polo shirts and funny-looking pants invade our dried-up land to spank the little white ball around the greens, the competition is fierce, and the price tag is fugly (effing ugly). We have a cheaper alternative for the hacked-out swinger: the wonderful world of disc golf — frolf — in which air duffers try to fling their modified Frisbees into the basket before their competitors.
March 6-8, 2008



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