Wow.

This past weekend’s speaktherights.com College Football Predictions worked out very well.

I was in earnest when I said the Hoosier would beat Mizzou.  They did.

I was in err when I reported that East Carolina had beaten South Carolina earlier.  They beat Virginia Tech instead…no simple task.  They put 70 points on North Carolina.  Time to retire Ruffin McNeil’s jersey.  He played defensive back for them back in the day.  He is a good Pirate.  Speaking of which, who has cooler uniforms than ECU?  I hope you did not say Oregon.

When it was all said and done, the week was 8 for and 2 against.  I thought Va. Tech would beat Ga. Tech.  I thought LSU would take care of Mississippi State.  Between the two of them the State boys from Starkville and Ole Miss are 7 wins and 0 loses.

Back to IU.  I did think they would win.  Mizzou was ripe for the picking.  Face it, it is difficult to get excited to play Indiana.  The Tigers thought they just had to show up.  The Hoosiers were there to show them up.  And Coach Wilson needed this game badly.  Hopefully it will spark some enthusiasm and the Hoosiers will beat Maryland as they come calling to Bloomington this Saturday.  I would not hold my breath.  If I made the pick today, I would give it to the Terps…though I would hate to do so.  I’d be delighted to be proved wrong.

After 4 weeks the season tally on College Football Predictions stands at 30 wins and 10 loses.

So what is with the golf picture?  This is a question I was asked today.

Yes, that is as close as I have ever gotten to a hole-in-one.  Maybe…I think I was a little closer one time at hole #4 on the Old Capital Course…but I didn’t have a cell phone back then to take a picture.  Come to think of it, I didn’t even know what a cell phone was on that day.

Symbolism.  Yes, yes, I know it is football season.  I know some folks out there think I am not getting enough oxygen to my brain, given there is a golf ball at the top of the page.

Back to Symbolism.

I commented in an earlier post about a golf tournament I would be playing in this fall.  I commented in another earlier post…a little less than a month ago…about how my friend Malcolm Todd “Corner King” Lincoln, Sr had died suddenly in 1997.

In 2000, four us, some friends and myself, began playing a golf game we called “The Corner King Classic” at New Salisbury Golf Course.  It is to commemorate the life of a good friend as we share our own friendship.  The golf is terrible.  The laughs make up for it.  The memories are priceless.

As time goes on, my friends and I see less and less of each other.  That would be life.  It happens.  Like I wrote in another early post…some friends fade away.  I am fortunate to call these three my friends: Kelly Samons, Mick Rutherford, and Gus Stephenson.  We are still at it.

Why “The Corner King Classic” in New Salisbury?   The course is close to the corner where our friend the Corner King would sit holding court at the old gas station in front of the old four-way stop…high above his subjects in a red Jeep that sat well off the ground.  The golf course is…well…just around the corner.

Speaking the rights….FORE!

Danny Johnson