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"Why, those sorry bastards"
During football season, two Clear Thinkers favorite subjects are the annual Texas-OU game and former Texas head coach Darrell Royal (here, here, here, here and here). So, this Barking Carnival post on the epic 1976 game -- Royal's last...
A Texas original
Given the achievement of covering his 200th major golf tournament at the U.S. Open this past June, Clear Thinkers favorite and fellow Texan Dan Jenkins has been making the interview rounds and it has been a rollicking good time....
Can he do it?
A year after 53 year-old Greg Norman flirted with winning the Open Championship, 59 year-old Tom Watson, just two months shy of his 60th birthday, is leading the Open going into the final round Sunday at Turnberry in Ayrshire...
Jenkins @ the Open
With the 2009 U.S. Open that is finishing today, Clear Thinkers favorite Dan Jenkins is covering his 200th major golf tournament. In one of the more remarkable developments of the tournament, the 79 year-old Jenkins has been reporting on developments...
Advantage Cartwright
Texas Monthly's Gary Cartwright caught my eye recently with this op-ed in which he bemoans the decline of sports writing in Texas. I mean really. Can anyone who regularly reads the sports pages of Texas newspapers make a good...
Jenkins returns to Sawgrass
Clear Thinkers favorites Dan Jenkins, the dean of American golf writers, is making his first trek to TPC Sawgrass in a decade this week to cover my favorite tournament, The Players (which includes the always fun video of the...
Not a bad way to start the day
"I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers,...
Dan Jenkins' 2009 Golf Season Pop Quiz
Clear Thinkers favorite Dan Jenkins is already in mid-season form with this hilarious pop quiz (H/T Geoff Shackelford) for the start of the 2009 PGA Tour season. Some of the questions to get you started: 7. Camilo Villegas is:...
Interesting golf fact of the day
What with Hurricane Ike and the meltdown on Wall Street -- as well as my general pessimism about the U.S. team's chances -- I haven't blogged much about this weekend's Ryder Cup matches at Valhalla in Louisville. But Clear...
"Darrell, I don't think we could go through that again"
With the beginning of the college football season this week, it just feels right to pass along this OU Insider interview of one of Texas' legendary college football coaches -- Emory Bellard, the inventor of the Wishbone offense. Numerous...
Gearing up for the U.S. Open
Golf course author and blogger Geoff Shackelford is blogging the U.S. Open this week at Torrey Pines in San Diego in the same manner as he blogged The Masters earlier this year, and he kicks off the U.S. Open...
It's time for The Masters
It's the week of The Masters golf tournament, so I'm passing along a copy of the Augusta National scorecard that my late father used when he shot a cool 99 at the course back in the mid-1970's. The weather...
Governor Perry annoys John Daly?
Regular readers of this blog know about the rich Texas legacy in golf (for example, see here, here, here, here, and here). However, it doesn't look as if Texas Governor Rick Perry is doing much to facilitate that grand heritage....
A chip off the old block sizes up Tiger Woods
Clear Thinkers favorite Dan Jenkins is the best writer on golf of our times, but his daughter Sally is a darn good golf writer in her own right (previous posts here). In this column after Tiger Woods' Saturday round this...
Dan Jenkins for the World Golf HOF
In this GolfWorld op-ed on why Clear Thinkers favorite Dan Jenkins should be in the World Golf Hall of Fame, John Hawkins sums up Jenkins' remarkable writing talent well: Knowing Jenkins as I do--he's far more of an idol to...
More love for Zach
Clear Thinkers favorite Dan Jenkins is not having any part of the notion that Zach Johnson's victory in The Masters Golf Tournament was boring due to a tricked-up Augusta National: I, for one, loved it. The Augusta National, with an...
Jody Conradt steps down
Longtime University of Texas women's basketball coach Jody Conradt resigned on Monday, ending a coaching career at UT that spanned 31 years and produced 900 wins, a national championship with an undefeated team in 1986, 21 NCAA tournament appearances, three...
Dan Jenkins on Darrell Royal
The Chronicle's David Barron uses last night's Texas Children's Hospital fund-raising dinner to honor legendary former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal as a Texas Legend to pen this fun article on two Clear Thinkers favorites -- Coach Royal...
It's football time in Texas
It's the lull before the onslaught of the college football bowl games, but football still permeates the culture of Texas as the high school playoffs move toward conclusion, the Cowboys contend for an NFL playoff berth and the Texans prepare...
The BCS muddle
The Washington Post's Sally Jenkins is the daughter of my all-time favorite sportswriter, Dan Jenkins, and an insightful sportswriter in her own right. In this column, she eviscerates the Bowl Championship Series and everything it stands for in classic Jenkins...
Byron Nelson, R.I.P.
Golf's quintessential gentleman -- Byron Nelson -- died yesterday in his home near Dallas at the age of 94. Here are the Dallas Morning News, the NY Times, and the LA Times obituaries, along with a PGATour.com timeline of Nelson's...
Well, at least we were good sports
After losing the Ryder Cup over the weekend for the fifth time in the last six competitions, the United States team is certainly an easy target for criticism and the golf writers are taking dead aim: The Houston Chronicle's golf...
The resentencing of Jamie Olis
US District Judge Sim Lake announced yesterday that Jamie Olis will be resentenced on Friday at 2 p.m., almost a year after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge Lake's previous 24+ year sentence. As we await another chapter...
Why aren't the U.S. teams winning the Ryder Cup?
Damon Hack of the NY Times reports on the boys' road trip of the U.S. Ryder Cup team a couple of weeks ago "to bond" before this week's matches (and to try and figure out why the U.S. has gotten...
Dan Jenkins on professional golf and growing up in Texas
Although it was mildly interesting to watch Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk and Colin Montgomerie's choking competition yesterday afternoon that handed the U.S. Open title to Geoff Ogilvy on an absurdly tricked-up Winged Foot Golf Club West Course, this Anthony Cotton/Denver...
It's 2006 Shell Houston Open Week
This is Shell Houston Open week, and this year's tournament is a particularly interesting edition of the venerable local stop on the PGA Tour. As noted in this earlier post, the SHO is still recovering from a series of dubious...
It's time for The Masters
The Masters golf tournament begins today and, as Brian Wacker reports, the tournament is -- as usual -- a tough ticket: As I write this, the going rate for two badges to the second, third and fourth rounds of this...
Thinking about GM
These posts over the past year have chronicled General Motors' Enronesque slide toward what is increasingly appearing to be an inevitable reorganization case under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. That probable fate was reinforced this past week when...
Dick Harmon, R.I.P.
The Houston and U.S. golfing communities are in shock this morning with the news that Dick Harmon -- one of the four brothers who are among the best golf instructors in the United States -- died unexpectedly on Friday morning...
Good karma for the Rose Bowl
As Texans prepare for the long-awaited Rose Bowl matchup tonight between the Texas Longhorns and the USC Trojans, this Ray Buck/Ft. Worth Star Telegram article does a good job of telling how Longhorn coach Mack Brown's relationship with legendary former...
Dan Jenkins on Vince Young
As regular readers of my blog know, Dan Jenkins of Ft. Worth is my favorite sportswriter, bar none (previous posts on Jenkins are here, here, here, here and here). In this interesting David Barron article that explores where the 2005...
Dan Jenkins on America's contributions to golf
In summertime, thoughts turn to golf, and the August issue of Golf Digest is called it's All-American edition. That theme gives columnist Dan Jenkins an opportunity to provide his wit and wisdom on America's contributions to golf in this hilarious...
"Yeah, like really . . ."
The youngest player to win an LPGA golf tournament in 50 years emerged yesterday as graduating high school student Paula Creamer won her first LPGA event at something called the Sybase Classic by sinking a clutch 20-foot birdie putt on...
What will Dan Jenkins say about this?
For the first time, a law firm is sponsoring a PGA Tour golfer. Dallas-based Thompson & Knight has announced that it will sponsor former University of Texas golfer and Abilene native Harrison Frazar on the PGA Tour: "Harrison approaches golf...
Dan Jenkins on The Masters
Regular readers of this blog know that Dan Jenkins is my favorite golf writer, bar none. Mr. Jenkins still covers each golf major tournament for Golf Digest magazine, and his article (not yet online) on this year's Master's tournament appears...
The amazing Dan Jenkins
Given that it is Shell Houston Open week, it seem appropriate to note that Ft. Worth's Dan Jenkins -- whose writings were previously featured in posts here and here -- is the best golf writer of our times. An outstanding...
Understanding terrorism
Although I am generally supportive of the way in which the Bush Administration has conducted the war against the Islamic fascists over the past three years, I have never been comfortable with the Administration's characterization of the war as the...
Analyzing airline woes
The Wall Street Journal's Holman Jenkins, Jr.'s Business World ($) column today addresses the mess that is the American airline industry, and notes that this is not a problem that has just arisen recently: Today's crisis is not materially different...
The prospects for real Social Security reform
In his weekly Business World column today, the Wall Street Journal's ($) Holman Jenkins, Jr. lays out the case that a second Bush Administration may be the one time that realistic reform of Social Security could actually take place: People...
United revises bid for federal financing
As noted in this earlier post, the federal Air Transportation Stabilization Board announced last week that it had rejected Chicago-based United Airlines' application for a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee, which was the foundation of United's reorganization plan to emerge...
Sally Jenkins on Tiger Woods
Sally Jenkins is the daughter of Dan Jenkins, who is simply the best golf writer of all-time. However, Sally is currently writing on golf for the Washington Post, and she is fast joining her father as one of the best...
Dan Jenkins on Phil Mickelson's Masters
As noted here earlier, Dan Jenkins is American's finest sportswriter on golf. He has covered an incredible 53 Masters Golf Tournaments in a row, and here is his Golf Digest article on this year's spectacular tournament that Phil Mickelson won...
Sally Jenkins on Mickelson's Masters win
Dan Jenkins is my favorite writer about golf. However, his daughter, Washington Post sportswriter Sally Jenkins, is clearly an up and comer in that field. She has written this fine piece today on how Phil Mickelson overcame past failures in...
Dan Jenkins on the 1954 Masters
Bar none, Dan Jenkins is the best writer on golf of our time. In this Golf Digest article, Mr. Jenkins relates his story about the 1954 Masters in which the legends Sam Snead and Ben Hogan dualed in an 18...
Interesting political analysis of Bush and Kerry
Dr. Keith Poole is a bright political science professor at the University of Houston. Daniel Drezner points us today to this Chicago Tribune article by Assistant Professor Jeffrey A. Jenkins of Northwestern University that concludes, based upon this methodology developed...
Vijay's streak? So what?
The NY Times Dave Anderson weighs in with this piece that points out that professional golfer Vijay Singh's current streak of finishing in the top 10 in 12 straight Tour events is not particularly impressive in comparison to the streaks...
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