Tiger Woods Wins 1st Tourney Since September 2009

Tiger Hugs caddie, Joe LaCava, after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday.

It had been 924 days since Tiger Woods hoisted a trophy in an official PGA Tour event, beating Graeme MacDowell in the process. It was great watching Tiger again in the final group, and for me personally it was especially interesting because Tiger's last victory was before I really became addicted to golf.

The Master's is in 2 weeks and oddsmakers are already making Tiger the favorite to win (a bit of an overreaction in my opinion). Still, it's great to see him back and with a little swag left in his surgically repaired knees. He's not the same Tiger of before -- and I don't know if he'll ever be -- but, boy, it'll be fun watching him try.

Still Funny

Happy Birthday, Mom!

:)

Baseball Season starts...

In 4 days! Well, not really...still a month away, but as the great Buster Olney said over the weekend, this past Saturday was the last Saturday until November that there won't be any baseball.

And with that, one of my favorite videos of Brian Wilson:



FEAR THE BEARD, Let's Go Giants!

Violin Concerto Recordings

They're all up:

Concerto for Violin and Wind Ensemble (2011)

Enjoy! (or at least try to)

Violin Concerto Premiere

After all the hard work, with venerable composers Lane Harder, Joey Love, and Andy Davis, the premiere of our wind ensemble works was a complete success.

Who knew putting together an ensemble of 40 players and having them be able to make all the rehearsals would go so smoothly?!?!

Recordings for the Concerto for Violin and Wind Ensemble will be up soon...the performance was absolutely amazing, probably the best performance of my music, EVER. :)

Epic Niners Win

What a great game. Alex Smith came through in the clutch--twice--to beat the New Orleans Saints at home, 36-32.

What a wild win. 17-0 to start. Than 17-14 for most of the game. Then 23-17. Then 24-23 Saints. Followed by an answer by the Niners to make it 29-24 (failed 2 pt conversion).

Then the Niners give up a well-covered play to Jimmy Graham to make it 32-29 with less than 2 minutes to go. A little Vernon Davis action, then a CLUTCH 14 yd. TD to Davis with 14 seconds remaining, reminiscent of the Steve Young to T.O. back in '98.

Great game, great memories, and our marriage (Jac is a Saints fan) still intact. :)