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Scottie Scheffler of the United States gestures during a press conference ahead of the British Open Golf championships at Royal Birkdale golf club, in Southport, England, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo\/David Goldman)<\/p>\n
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\u201cKevin Sherrington\u2019s A La Carte\u201d is a weekly newsletter curated by DMN sports columnist Kevin Sherrington where he hits all of the latest sports topics around North Texas and all major sports.<\/p>\n
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Sign up for the Sports Roundup newsletter<\/a> to receive exclusive content from Sherrington every week. Read an excerpt from this week\u2019s newsletter below.<\/p>\n Kevin Sherrington’s A La Carte<\/p>\n \u2014 Scottie Scheffler<\/a> received a nice note from Tiger Woods after Highland Park’s own passed him on the all-time money list with his second Tour championship, becoming only the third player to claim more than one in the process. Winnings, of course, make for a poor comparison, even if adjusted for inflation. Tiger and Jack Nicklaus remain the standards for any generation. Scottie’s the standard for this one, which should be more than enough for anyone.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n \u2014 Get this: A man has been outed for pretending to be a Cowboy<\/a>, and it wasn’t\u00a0Mazi Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2014 First\u00a0TCU revoked the credentials of its hometown newspaper, then it doubled down on the national ridicule by making Bill Belichick a feel-good story. The school may have a legitimate gripe about the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s coverage of a football player’s assault<\/a>, but there were better ways to handle it. Especially when your stadium is named after the paper’s former publisher.<\/p>\n \u2014 Sonny Dykes<\/a> raised eyebrows last spring when he noted that his former\u00a0TCU QB, Josh Hoover, now at Indiana, had 42 turnovers in 31 games. Hoover also hung 48 points on North Carolina last year. His Harvard replacement, Jaden Craig, managed 10. None of this will wear well, Sonny.<\/p>\n \u2014 Did you catch\u00a0Belichick’s reaction to a game-clinching first down Saturday? Didn’t show that much emotion at his previous gig for any of his six Lombardis.<\/p>\n \u2014 Jaydon Blue may yet resurrect his career with the Cowboys or elsewhere<\/a>, but it should be noted that, despite his gaudy skills, he couldn’t stay on the field at Texas, either.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n \u2014 A good reason for the Cowboys to keep three\u00a0QBs:<\/a> Leaves you room to trade one, which was once a cottage industry for the organization.<\/p>\n \u2014 Unless the Rangers do something this fall they haven’t done all summer<\/a>, it’s almost time to think about reinventing them. In their next iteration, how about a clubhouse full of guys who already know how to do all the things that, back in the day, even the 25th player knew instinctively?\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2014 World Cups will come, and most, if not all, will raise the spirits of the world like no other sporting event. But whoever else is in charge from here on out will have to do it without Lionel\u00a0Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a>. No matter what else comes, we’ll always be able to claim them.<\/p>\n Story time:\u00a0TCU’s revocation of the FWST’s credentials reminds of the time when the same set of circumstances happened with yours truly, only in reverse.<\/p>\n The Beaumont Enterprise-Journal was the third stop on my newspaper climb, coming after the Pasadena Citizen and Galveston Daily News,\u00a0mothership of the DMN. In Beaumont, as in Pasadena and Galveston, my primary beats were high schools. The difference was that every story you wrote for the morning Enterprise, you rewrote for the afternoon Journal. Made for good practice.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Anyway, one of my four high schools was\u00a0Beaumont-Charlton-Pollard, coached by Duriel Harris, Sr., father of the great Dolphins receiver with the same name. The old man informed me on my first day that, because of jealousies that built up the year before, I would not be permitted to talk to any of his players. Only him.<\/p>\n Didn’t help matters that he was bad copy. I went along reluctantly. Finally, my boss, the late, great Joe\u00a0Heiling, told me to tell Harris that if we couldn’t talk to his players, we wouldn’t write anything about BCP.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the sports section was filled each day with stories about other area high schools.<\/p>\n The next time I went out to BCP, after a two-week boycott, the coach greeted me warmly.<\/p>\n “Who would you like to talk to?”<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n This is how we settled our differences back then, when the world was more civilized. I miss those days.<\/p>\n More from Sherrington<\/p>\n \u2014 Why this 2026 Dallas Cowboys team has me ready to believe \u2014 with one or two conditions<\/a><\/p>\n