About Dan O'Neill

Born in St. Louis, O'Neill graduated from the same high school as Tennessee Williams, Bing Devine, and Nelly. An award-winning feature writer and columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1985 to 2017, O’Neill has had his work appear in numerous national publications. He also has written several short stories and books, and firmly believes that if you take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

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the open
2023-07-18
The Open Championship will get underway this week at Royal Liverpool Golf Club Holyoke, giving us a much-needed respite from all the noise surrounding golf.
st. louis cardinals
2023-06-09
A city that refers to itself as the ‘best baseball town in America’ has one of the worst teams in MLB. How can the St. Louis Cardinals return to top form?
2023-06-07
For those PGA players unwilling to accept Saudi money in the past, will forgiveness become more palatable washed down with the monetary windfall they realize?
PGA Championship
2023-05-15
The PGA Championship is this week, and it just doesn’t carry the cachet of golf’s other major championships. So we have some suggestions to spruce it up.
mike shannon
2023-05-01
What made Mike Shannon synonymous with St. Louis is the association with which every baseball town in America can relate. His voice became the sound of baseball.
tiger woods
2023-04-10
In his last five majors, Tiger Woods scorecard has read: Cut, 47th, Withdrawal, Cut, Withdrawal. That’s no way for the “greatest player of all time” to go out.
Caitlin Clark
2023-04-03
The drama surrounding Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark proves that women’s basketball has arrived big time.