Golf drops pants, embraces shorts

PGA Championship says it will allow shorts in practice rounds-could a cargo shorts crisis be coming?

It reached 70-degrees in New York City this week, which meant this town’s winter-weary residents lost their minds. Wool coats stayed home. T-shirts came out to play. People dined outside — oh, excuse me, al fresco — looking like merry elephant seals on the docks.

Then again, New Yorkers will dine outside when it’s 38-degrees out. It’s the weirdest thing.

The one move you didn’t see a lot of was men wearing shorts. Men in shorts continue to get a terrible rap. The designer Tom Ford has declared that shorts should never be worn by men except to swim or