Back in Hoptown ...
Since I left for Chicago, the Kentucky New Era has gone to a more straightforward, text-based TV listing. I think I like it.
Meanwhile, back in Chicago, we still haven't learned what happened to Lafe Coker after his U.S. Open collapse. Some of Mac Divot's golf-pro colleagues have been talking all week about how the size of the putting cup came to be ...
There are a couple of movies out in Chicago that I'm interested in ...
But neither is playing this weekend in Hoptown ...
So, back in Kentucky, I'll have to content my Evel Knievel craving this Independence Day weekend with this Robert F. Jones takeout from the July 5, 1971, Sports Illustrated. The whole thing is a lively, brisk read, and I do recommend reading it. But here's F. Jones's money sentence: "To the extent that America is a composite of dreams and desperation, Robert Craig Knievel fills the bill." And you can pretty much game out the whole tone of the article from that, and you would be correct.
Somebody smarter than Hoptown 1971 me, Chicago 1971 me and U.S.A. 2017 me all put together could take this collage of artifacts and assemble a pretty compelling post for the HP about how we got from that freakin' weekend to this one in America.
