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

How nice to be finally waking up to The Open Championship after nonstop PGA-LIV talk

The Open Championship will get underway this week at Royal Liverpool Golf Club Holyoke, giving us a much-needed respite from…
st. louis cardinals
2023-06-09

How the St. Louis Cardinals lost their way and strayed from their perch as ‘baseball heaven’

A city that refers to itself as the 'best baseball town in America' has one of the worst teams in…
pga
2023-06-07

Now that Saudis are in partnership with PGA Tour, will players find their money easier to take?

For those PGA players unwilling to accept Saudi money in the past, will forgiveness become more palatable washed down with…
PGA Championship
2023-05-15

Naming some new ways to spice up the PGA Championship, golf’s forgotten major

The PGA Championship is this week, and it just doesn’t carry the cachet of golf's other major championships. So we…
mike shannon
2023-05-01

Mike Shannon was the perfect announcer for a legion of baseball fans in St. Louis

What made Mike Shannon synonymous with St. Louis is the association with which every baseball town in America can relate.…
tiger woods
2023-04-10

As the W’s (Withdrawals, not Wins) keep adding up for Tiger Woods, when will enough be enough?

In his last five majors, Tiger Woods scorecard has read: Cut, 47th, Withdrawal, Cut, Withdrawal. That's no way for the…
Caitlin Clark
2023-04-03

Women’s basketball has officially arrived, full of drama and trash-talking

The drama surrounding Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark proves that women's basketball has arrived big time.