History in the Making, and in the Dark Graham Stuart/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images Inbee Park's historical run has taken place in relative obscurity. In case you missed it, and we know you have, an athlete stands on the brink of history. There is a reason everybody talks about the Grand Slams in golf, but never about the Grand Slam, winning all four of them in one year. That's because no one has ever done it since golf gave up persimmon shafts and amateurism. Few even wander into the neighborhood. And yet, here we have Inbee Park, three major tournament victories in hand this year and favored to win a fourth (she shot a 69 in the first round of the women's British Open on Thursday), and almost no one knows this is happening. We know women's golf has worked itself into a particularly tight corner of obscurity, even in golf-crazy Britain, where clubs like St. Andrews are still only thinking about admitting women as members. And we know that young South Korean stars rarely get noticed in the United States (or Britain) unless they produce a really catchy video. But still. Park's sport is left to howl into the wind that we should celebrate her potential achievement, as Robert Lusetich writes on Foxsports.com, and even many folks around St. Andrews this week have no clue what's going on, Gene Wojciechowski writes on ESPN.com. And no, it does not help that the L.P.G.A. thought that adding a fifth major this year was a potential attention-getter, when it only confuses the issue of whether four majors is the Grand Slam anymore. Tiger Woods is getting more ink for pre-whining about the greens at next week's P.G.A. Championship at Oak Hill. Heck, there is a huge list of entirely underwhelming news blotting out Park's quest. You could start with baseball, which produced a snoozefest of a trade deadline, although you can find winners and losers, Jayson Stark tells us on ESPN.com, if you pick up a microscope and then look up Bud Norris on Wikipedia. Everyone else is busy trying to get the "Jeopardy" tune out of their heads as we wait for Major League Baseball to finally reveal the Biogenesis suspensions, so we can stop reading about how Alex Rodriguez is considering cutting a deal and why it is the only way he will salvage a shred of dignity out of this, as Jon Heyman writes on CBSSports.com. Football will wallow in its usual overabundance of attention, although this week's tempest might make you wish otherwise: Philadelphia Eagles receiver Riley Cooper caught on video spewing racial epithets at a concert. Although he made the requisite apology and quarterback Michael Vick, for one, said he accepted it despite his brother's Twitter rant to the contrary, the Eagles" decision to merely fine Cooper rings hollow, Phil Sheridan writes in The Philadelphia Inquirer. As Les Carpenter writes on Yahoo.com, an underwhelming response could cost Coach Chip Kelly his team before he even coaches a game. Gosh, even soccer got its share of the news on Wednesday, when in the middle of a thoroughly underwhelming loss by the M.L.S. All-Stars to A.S. Roma, the league commissioner, Don Garber, shook things up by announcing a four-team expansion. Elsewhere, Cristiano Ronaldo provided evidence that soccer stars should stick to skills involving their feet, with a truly embarrassing first-pitch effort at Dodger Stadium. Video by Los Angeles Galaxy Cristiano Ronaldo throws the first (and second) pitch at Dodger Stadium Gosh, if Inbee Park can't crack that news lineup, there is no hope for women's golf.