Author: Jake Schaller
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It’s expensive to be a nonprofit, as Air Force sports program learns
For several years, Air Force Academy senior officials laid the groundwork for converting the athletic department into a nonprofit corporation. They sold the idea to the academy’s Board of Visitors (essentially its board of trustees). They presented it to the Secretary of the Air Force. They crafted legislation with lawyers. And they lobbied members of Congress…
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Forecast calls for change
With apologies to R.E.M., the end of the college football world as we know it could be coming soon. Will the Big Ten, currently comprised of 11 schools, add one or three more? Or five? Will the Pac-10 raid the Big 12? Will the Big 12 counter by looting other leagues? And what happens to…
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Big changes may, may not be coming for college football conferences
With apologies to R.E.M., the end of the college football world as we know it could be coming soon. Will the Big Ten, currently comprised of 11 schools, add one or three more? Or five? Will the Pac-10 raid the Big 12? Will the Big 12 counter by looting other leagues? And what happens to…
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Senior PGA notes: Loeffler completes Jekyll-and-Hyde tournament
If only Castle Rock’s Bill Loeffler could have played on Friday and Sunday like he did on Thursday and Saturday. In the first and third rounds, Loeffler shot matching 3-under-par 69s. But he imploded for rounds of 82 and 79 in the second and fourth rounds, respectively. Odd rounds, 6-under. Even rounds, 17-over. “Unfortunately,” Loeffler…
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Lehman wins playoff for Senior PGA Championship
PARKER – Fittingly, Tom Lehman won the 71st Senior PGA Championship at Colorado Golf Club with a routine par. On the first hole of a three-player, sudden-death playoff, Lehman hit a drive right down the middle of the fairway on the 445-yard par-4 18th, played a pitching wedge to the center of the green and…
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Lehman, Blake tied for Senior PGA lead
Through 16 holes Saturday in the third round of the Senior PGA Championship, Tom Lehman had been one of the few steady players on a moving day that lived up to its name with golfers surging up and tumbling down the leaderboard. He had hit 11 of 13 fairways and 15 of 16 greens in…
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Senior PGA notes: Loeffler plays on borrowed time
Castle Rock’s Bill Loeffler still was swinging Saturday in the third round of the Senior PGA Championship at Colorado Golf Club. Loeffler, a club pro and co-owner of Highlands Ranch Golf Club, shot a 3-under 69 in the opening round Thursday, then suffered through a 10-over round of 82 on Friday. Loeffler made the cut on…
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Just like that, Couples takes lead at Senior PGA Championship
PARKER • Follow Fred Couples around a golf course during a tournament and you’ll undoubtedly hear the same two words spoken over and over by fans in his teeming gallery. “So smooth.” The phrase — used partly in reverence, partly in disbelief — describes Couples’ buttery, effortless swing that somehow produces huge drives. But “so…
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Senior PGA Championship notes: Locals have rough day
Castle Rock’s Bill Loeffler had a dream round Thursday, shooting a 3-under-par 69 that he said exceeded his expectations. Friday’s round was more of a nightmare for the club pro and co-owner of Highlands Ranch Golf Club. Loeffler, who started on the back nine, was even-par through three holes. But he played a nine-hole stretch…
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Langer, Freeman share lead at 6-under at Senior PGA in Parker
PARKER – Thanks to the winds whipping through Colorado Golf Club, club selection at the Senior PGA Championship has been a bit of “a guessing game,” according to Bernhard Langer. Langer made some pretty good guesses in Thursday’s first round. The World Golf Hall of Famer fired a course-record, 6-under-par 66 to grab a share…