RealClearSports: 2 Golfers Find Their Dreams

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- James Hahn was playing on adrenaline. Michael Allen was working on a 30-year-old dream. In that all-day ordeal called U.S. Open sectional qualifying, each found success and a place in America's golf championship.

A total of 130 players competed for seven places over 36 holes, 18 apiece at Lake Merced and Harding Park, both within view of Olympic Club, up a low hill, where the 112th Open will be held next week.

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RealClearSports: Reasons for Skepticism in Sports

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

"Go ahead and say it,'' advised the commissioner of the NBA, David Stern. "Conspiracy theory."

But why? We already believe it, so we'd be preaching to the choir, ourselves, the biggest group of skeptics this side of the Facebook IPO underwriters.

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