Mark Briggs

Sweep State of Mind 🏙️🧹

Gone Fishin' 🎣

@MarchArchBaker Love it. And our Rockies have matched our Memorial Day win total before tax day this year.

Illinois State Vs Belmont vibes

Illinois State is believed to be the first school ever to qualify for the Semifinals in a D1 postseason tournament in Football, MBB, and WBB in the same academic year. They lost an overtime heartbreaker in the FCS Final, and are headed to the NIT Semifinal and WNIT Fab Four.

High Point HC Flynn Clayman sets the record straight on the strength of his team after beating Wisconsin 👀

Todd Helton’s reaction after advancing to the World Series will always be awesome ❤️

Shane Lowry's tee shots on 16 and 17. Truly unbelievable.

Always fun to see what the so-called “experts” thought about the Suns before the season. Proud of what we’re building here in Phoenix and we are just getting started!

🚨😔🏌️ #DISASTER — Leading on 18, Shane Lowry hit his bunker shot across the green and into the water, making double bogey to end his chance at winning the Dubai Invitational @LowryTracker

Nolan Arenado, who forced his way out of Colorado in part to play more playoff games — finishes his Cardinals career with fewer postseason games than he played for the Rockies.

Illinois State had an incredible season that ended up just short of the FCS Championship. They are the first college football team to play 17+ games since the 19th century.

@BarryOnCampus @PSPigskin Thank you for the great coverage, Barry!

Illinois State falls “one more play” short in overtime loss at FCS national title game despite valiant comeback. Check out our @PSPigskin report from Nashville. prairiestatepigskin.com/2026/01/06/red…

It’s Time to Give Brock Spack His Flowers ✍🏻 @NathanSwaffar fcsnationradio.com/post/it-s-time…

D1 schools (FBS or FCS) currently with 12 wins in football and men’s basketball. Illinois State Georgia Miami BYU That’s it. Great time to be a Redbird! @RedbirdFB 🤝 @Redbird_MBB

NATTY BOUND!!!!!

North Dakota State was a HEAVY favorite to win the FCS National Championship and just lost to Illinois State

OH GREAT HEAVENS! David has cast down Goliath 🤯😵‍💫 @RedbirdFB completes the comback and defeats (1) North Dakota St., 29-28, to advance to the next round of the 2025 @NCAA DI FCS Football Playoffs ‼️

It’s remarkable how quickly Sand Valley has risen to the very top of the list of public golf resorts in the U.S. Sand Valley, the original course by Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, opened in 2017. Mammoth Dunes, by David McLay Kidd, came online in 2018, as did the Sandbox, a terrific 19-hole par-3 course by Coore & Crenshaw. Five years later, in 2023, golf architecture’s greatest loss was erased when Tom Doak rebuilt the Lido to C.B. Macdonald’s exact specs. In 2024, Doak opened Sedge Valley, his ode to the English heathlands. And this spring, The Commons, a 12-hole design from Jim Craig, his first solo effort. Each is both unique and outstanding. Bandon Dunes, with 26 years under its belt, is the current king of public destination golf in the U.S., but Sand Valley, despite lacking an ocean, is nipping at it’s heels just 8 years after its first course opened - an amazing achievement for a golf resort chopped out of Wisconsin forest.

How the golf cart destroyed American golf culture: Disclaimer: I play in carts sometimes. This isn’t “You suck if you play in a golf cart”. Public golf culture in the USA has a lot of problems. And imo the golf cart was what changed the game. In the UK and Australia, golf is seen as a healthy social hobby. It’s a nature walk while hitting a golf ball and then a beer with friends afterwards. In America, it’s mocked. A lazy man’s game. Driving around getting smashed. It’s slow and often tense. It’s like sitting in traffic. How did the golf cart hurt the game? Takes away the health benefits Horrible for the turf Makes expensive and ugly cart paths mandatory Allows for more drinking, most don’t want to get drunk while walking Takes away the natural high Allows for bad golf course design Almost all of the great private golf clubs in the USA are walking only or highly encourage walking. This isn’t a coincidence. Golf is simply a walking game. It’s better for all involved. (With exemption for the handicapped.) As American golf evolves, thankfully we are seeing a move back to walking courses. The Park in Florida mandates walking in the mornings. Bandon Dunes and Sand Valley are walking only. And golfers are buying in! I learned playing cart golf as an adult. Walking 18 holes seemed like a chore. But once you start walking, you get it. And it becomes easier and easier and then becomes what you crave. The walk. Yes in Texas or Florida summers, carts will be used. Yes at mountain and some desert courses they are needed. But for a normal parkland course, we need to eschew the cart. It’s better for the game and for everyone who plays it. For all the cart golfers, give it a try if your course is walkable. It’s better in all ways.