I call my retirement fund a 41k. 401k seems wildly optimistic, especially when my fund manager says: “It’s perfectly normal for your portfol...

For the second time in three years, Cleveland was named the poorest big city in the country by the U.S. Census. About 32 percent of Clevelan...

The headline in the paper the other day said, “Tiger Takes the Fifth.” It made me think of Retief Goosen. But, first, about the meaning of t...

You may have heard of Charlie Cook, the veteran Washington, D.C.-based political analyst. I had the pleasure of hearing Cook speak earlier t...

My day is off to a wonderful start. I filled up for $2.89 a gallon this morning. Boy, do I feel lucky. Lucky because I beat the price increa...

So I open up the paper today and see that Exxon Mobil posted a $10.4 billion profit for the second quarter. Profit! And that’s up 36 percent...

I just spent the day visiting several superintendents in the northern California area. Ray Davies, senior operations manager and director of...

Have you heard the news about LESCO? The Cleveland-based provider of turf products is going back to its old way of doing business. It must -...

Remember the gripe fest the U.S. Open turned into two years ago at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club? Several golfers, including Tiger Woods, went ...

Let me up, I've had enough. Please, no more articles about John Daly. I've had a daily dose of Daly for a few weeks now, and I can...

I’m starting to wonder if there isn’t something to the screwy, soggy legend that Muirfield Village Golf Club is cursed. Indeed, there is som...

What better way to celebrate my friend's 39th birthday Sunday night than to head to the ballpark. And what better way to fritter away wh...

Hopefully, you got to visit the new Georgia Aquarium during the Golf Industry Show's February stop in Atlanta. The world's biggest ...

The worst thing about running a marathon is the Day After … and then the next two days after that. So, the last thing I wanted to read 24 ho...

We don't talk much about sports anymore around here. The water-cooler chatter these days has to do with gas prices. "Will prices re...

Here in Cleveland, where it's raining for what seems like the 17th day in a row, our LeBron-led Cavaliers have the Detroit Pistons sputt...

As some of you may know, there is an association dedicated to people who write about grass. The Turf and Ornamental Communicators Associatio...

Irony leaches from my freshly tilled yard. It’s not often that I get to play golf course superintendent, but that’s what I did over the week...

Get out and vote! If I had the gumption to not only order an absentee ballot — I'm leaving for San Francisco any minute — but drop it ba...

Today, immigrants from across the country are boycotting work, school and shopping to show how much they matter to their cities and communit...