tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63582462024-03-23T11:44:40.178-07:00Grant Me ThisGrant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-66820572666995906642014-06-11T18:20:00.000-07:002014-06-11T18:20:22.310-07:00Of Judges and Juries: Pinehurst's First OpenI began this U.S. Open week with a spin through the book of Judges, specifically chapter 19. You, no doubt, instantly recall this inspiring tale about the traveling Levite who finds late-night shelter from an old man in Gibeah, only to have some of the men-folk arrive with a male package they insist on delivering personally, at which point the kindly but embarrassed old man Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00544123506712594665noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-42191140847410613832014-01-20T10:24:00.002-08:002014-01-20T11:10:40.836-08:00Got MLK? Sherman's March Through White America's TV Room
I didn't like Richard Sherman's verbal disemboweling of Niners wide receiver Michael Crabtree either.
But as I sat here at home this morning on a day set aside to remember Dr. Martin Luther King, I began wondering if it was easier for me to dislike that diatribe and, thus, the Seahawks cornerback, himself, because he is a black man with dreadlocks who spoke angrily and aggressively into a Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00544123506712594665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-16923742671049133222013-01-25T14:28:00.000-08:002013-01-25T14:28:45.232-08:00Magnificat
From December 2011
Right now, much of the world is thinking about the young woman who left home and gave birth to a boy. Today, I'm thinking of another mother, on a different kind of journey, returning home to prepare for the passing of a child - also her firstborn, also a son.
Indescribable joy. Unimaginable grief.
Mary's reaction to the news that she was miraculously with child is Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-11697646783647428042013-01-25T14:25:00.000-08:002013-01-25T14:25:02.433-08:00Ace in the HoleI was in the building when the Texas Rangers began this cuticle-chomping journey to the doorstep of baseball glory. Tampa Bay 9 Texas 0. The same score of a forfeit, which is what it felt like my wife, son No. 2 and I had done with our time and money that day.
And yes, I was the one who tweeted from Rangers Ballpark in Arlington:
C.J. Wilson gave up 8 of the 9 runs (6 earned) in that Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-39935034811547558992011-07-17T17:52:00.000-07:002011-07-17T17:52:34.196-07:00Clarke in Kent: SupermanGrant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-81119971452979835562011-06-08T12:38:00.000-07:002011-06-08T12:38:54.049-07:00Mr. Woods Doesn't Go to WashingtonIn case you haven't heard, Tiger Woods will not play the U.S. Open next week because of his most recent leg injury. Lauren Shehadi and I discuss Tiger's decision on CBSSports.com. (I'm the one whose lips don't appear to be moving.)
Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-2148797650599507012011-05-24T14:04:00.000-07:002011-05-24T14:05:52.947-07:00Nelson: A Man in FullThis is the piece I wrote for PGA.com upon the passing of Byron Nelson in September 2006. Part of it was read both at his funeral and the ceremony in Washington, D.C. when he was posthumously honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on June 26, 2007. That remains the highlight of my career in journalism.
Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-5779188910026600622011-05-12T09:58:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:40:11.602-07:00PLAYERS Preview on CBSSports.comGrant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-50274094453847685222011-04-29T16:03:00.000-07:002011-04-29T16:03:19.513-07:00Inside the GatesThe second round of the draft is underway. Edmond Gates is surrounded by friends and family at a cousin's house in Dallas where he's watching the ESPN coverage, waiting to find out where he'll play football professionally. I asked him how many are there. He said, "A lot."
It's the same cousin's house where they all gathered two years ago when another cousin, Bernard Scott, was taken in the 6th Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-2981171749480175632011-04-26T13:22:00.000-07:002011-04-26T13:24:15.023-07:00Gates Wide OpenFormer Abilene Christian University All-America wide receiver Edmond "Clyde" Gates is projected to be taken as high as the second round of this weekend's NFL Draft. Not bad for a guy who came to ACU hoping to play basketball.
Here's my profile of his amazing journey from the wrong side of the tracks to sports' biggest stage.Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-72794298842181404262011-03-15T07:57:00.000-07:002011-03-15T08:05:34.175-07:00Make a Wish
Liam Lowe
Today, Amy Lowe will mark the day she was born by sending both of the children born to her into separate operating rooms: her 3-year-old daughter, Mary, whose bone marrow doctors will harvest; and her 6-year-old boy, Liam, who will reap that harvest.
Liam has spent his last four months in a life-and-death battle with leukemia and the last four days having his little body profusely Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-80816712806287872012011-02-17T12:21:00.000-08:002011-02-17T12:30:29.038-08:00Some Poor Fainting, Struggling Semen: Rotten Apples, Spilled Seed and the Lyin' of Judah Genesis 38 (read here)
Cut Judah some slack: the fourth son of Israel and one of Jesus' not-so-great grandfathers didn't actually know the woman was his daughter-in-law. He thought Tamar, his oldest son's widow, was merely a prostitute, which explains why she got his goat in more ways than one.
The man had morals. Not very good ones, but he had them.
My buddy Hirsh believes that Someone Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-57334510111117642282011-02-08T07:44:00.000-08:002011-02-08T08:37:37.214-08:00Bunker Mentality: How Golf Can Dig Itself Out of a HoleWhatever you thought about Dustin Johnson getting flagged for unintentional grounding on the final hole of the PGA Championship, this much we all agree on:
The rule was applied correctly.
You may think the rule unfair or feel badly for Johnson, but you can't deny the PGA got it right in penalizing him 2 strokes - even if they were only enforcing an ill-conceived caveat of a quirky course.
Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-25162967075038835532008-09-18T19:50:00.001-07:002008-09-18T20:02:59.469-07:00A Zinger of a CaptainFirst off, if you’re hoping to see the U.S. reclaim the Ryder Cup this week, I regret to inform you that the early signs aren’t promising.Start with Sunday when high winds blew through Louisville, Kentucky, rearranging some of Valhalla’s outdoor furniture and even toppling a TV tower. (Unfortunately for the U.S. team, NBC’s Johnny Miller wasn’t in it at the time.)It got worse on Monday when the Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-88777652877401193512008-06-26T07:38:00.000-07:002008-06-28T15:43:29.373-07:00Seven Dirty Words, One Bad LegFirst off, in memory of the late, great George Carlin, the boone box presents:The Seven Words You Can Never Say If You Sell Ads for the Networks Televising the Season’s Final Two Majors and Ryder Cup: 1. Tiger2. Woods3. Won’t4. Play5. In6. The7. TournamentMy guess is that anyone who makes money off the British Open, PGA Championship, Ryder Cup, and/or any other event Tiger Woods would’ve played Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-12378248739129311302008-06-23T14:08:00.000-07:002008-06-23T14:27:30.192-07:00A Leg to Stand On: Knee, Mediate Collateral Damage in Woods' Pyrrhic VictoryFirst off, congratulations to Tiger Woods for finally shedding the distinction of Best Golfer Without a U.S. Open Title Since I Began Writing This Column. Father’s Day weekend marked the second anniversary of Grant Me This.Traditionally, one commemorates such milestones with specific gifts, e.g. gold for 50th, silver for 25th, calamine lotion for the 7th. To celebrate GMT’s 2nd, we spared no Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-25737204121588640652008-05-31T07:04:00.001-07:002008-05-31T16:53:09.672-07:00City of Two TalesFirst off, there are times it seems life, if you’ll pardon the Dickensian twist, is a city of two tales: those of the cautionary variety and the ones with fairies. Occasionally, the two collide.Last week’s edition of GMT was the hardest to finish in the nearly two years I’ve been at this. And not because it took so long to find the video clip of that SNL scene featuring Phil Hartman as washed-up Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-61268998101135365382008-05-22T16:20:00.000-07:002008-05-22T17:20:30.585-07:00Goodbye to Golf's Molten Hot Lava BombFirst off, in the words of (as Matt Foley called him) Bill Shakespeare, parting is indeed sweet sorrow. This week, two more major American cities said goodbye to gas prices which per gallon began with the number 3. The pumps in California these days read like an NFL defensive back’s 40 time.On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton bid farewell to any mathematical chance of winning a majority of delegates in Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-28485564971702160432008-05-22T16:15:00.000-07:002008-05-22T16:31:11.795-07:00Welcome to the CubFirst off, a warning: if you’re going to let your kids play little league sports, prepare yourself for a weekly gut-ectomy. If you’re planning to coach your kids’ teams – run. Run very fast the other way, while you still can, and don’t look back.The scrappy little Cubs (ages 9-11) of Wylie Little League took another one on the chin Tuesday night at the old ball orchard. Leading 10-7 going into Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-73477726056952112622008-05-22T16:10:00.000-07:002008-05-22T16:43:11.167-07:00Missing Tiger, Ratings Draggin'First off, it’s been a rather quiet week in golf. Not a single major champion has been interviewed topless for a small-market morning television show. In a related story, John Daly earned his one-week chip from Exhibitionists Anonymous.Second, hold de Mayo. On the eve of a national holiday, Mexico’s favorite daughter, Lorena Ochoa, came up short in her attempt to win Cinco straight. Ochoa opened Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-19530861273112036132008-04-28T19:36:00.000-07:002008-04-28T19:59:36.660-07:00When Benny Met BooThis column appeared originally in "Grant Me This" on http://www.pga.com/. First off, for those of you in metropolitan New York who wanted to see the final round of the Verizon Heritage but instead got invocation-to-benediction coverage of the Papal Mass at Yankee Stadium, you didn't miss much. Boo Weekley won the tournament for the second straight year, albeit in more somnolent style than last Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-64726190509420033092007-08-08T10:01:00.000-07:002007-08-08T10:02:21.732-07:00Lorena OchoaGrant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-18783167995217500412007-03-07T03:41:00.000-08:002007-03-07T03:44:23.104-08:00The Whitney Houston Diet - "Waiting to Exhale"Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-22400380867457662772007-02-07T12:05:00.000-08:002007-02-07T12:57:52.396-08:00Choking AhogoFirst off, after the outpouring of praise for last week’s column – okay, it was just one guy this morning at Starbucks, but he really poured out a lot of praise as the barista in-poured his coffee – I was tempted to recap how Tiger Woods’ performance at the Dubai Desert Classic was covered locally by Al Jazeera and lead anchor Mahmoud Burgundy (“Stay sheik, Middle East.”).But this is no time to Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358246.post-1165272115502467302006-12-04T14:15:00.000-08:002006-12-04T16:23:20.700-08:00Male Members, Electric Toots, and Other Communion ConversationThere were five of us on the second row at Highland yesterday: Anna Claire, Nicholas, and me - three of the usual suspects. Playing the role of Amy and Andrew, who were home because of Andrew's slight fever, were Anna Claire's two new nutcrackers (one of each gender to maintain the appropriate family ratio).Once Anna Claire departed for children's church, Nicholas and I were left to ponder the Grant Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17169561106452981987noreply@blogger.com7