News flash

By tbt* staff report
Published April 13, 2005

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Tiger's back Tiger Woods captured his fourth green jacket Sunday at the Masters -- tying Arnold Palmer for second-most behind Jack Nicklaus' six -- by beating Chris DiMarco, the ex-Gator, on the first playoff hole. It was Woods' ninth career major victory and first since the 2002 U.S. Open. A side note: Nicklaus says this was his last Masters.

STD suit Sonya Elliott is suing Falcons QB Michael Vick for knowingly giving her genital herpes. Elliott claims she met Vick, 24, in Virginia Beach, Va., in 2001 and had an off-and-on relationship with him before and after she moved to the Atlanta area in 2002.

He's unfit William Lepeska, accused of stalking tennis star Anna Kournikova, was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial and will be treated at a restrictive mental facility in Florida for the next six months under court order.

Yank$ first The Yankees remain baseball's most valuable franchise at $950 million, a 14 percent increase over last year, Forbes reported in its annual survey. The Devil Rays are the least-valuable franchise ($176M).

Hoseheads Fire engines couldn't stop a major fire in western Myanmar because they were spraying water at a government-owned golf course. According to a report in the Democratic Voice of Burma, "When they arrived at the scene, there was no water left for them to extinguish the fire." Four houses were destroyed. But apparently, the greens are rolling well.