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Kane hanging in there
Published: 8/18/2006 6:40 PM
Last Modified: 8/18/2006 6:40 PM

Jim Kane was a popular guy around Tulsa in the early 1980s when he was an All-American golfer for Oral Roberts. As a result, he's got a lot of friends. Luckily, I'm one of them. Kane once spent three months on my couch in my apartment. Yes, he did leave the apartment once in a while to play golf or go to class. It isn't very often we in the newspaper business get to write about good friends. Normally, we know our subjects from hours upon hours of covering practices and games. Kane we got to know because he was a buddy. He was a friend for most of the sports writers in town back in the early 1980s. He was a young player just out of college. We were young and barely out of college ourselves. So, we hung out in a lot of the same places. I hadn't seen Jim in 15 years until early this week following a practice round. No introductions were needed. We immediately started talking about the old days. I told his new wife I had a few stories for her. It was nice to see how well he played. He is 2-under-par and made the cut. He's beating many of the best players in the world. This is his third major championship. He's never missed a cut. But as he told me the other day, every 14 years it is fun to come to a major (he went 14 years between major appearances). Kane is an excellent player. For whatever reason, he didn't make it on the regular tour and wound up a club pro. Now, as he gets his game back in shape to try to get on the Champions Tour, it is fun to see an old buddy getting to live out some of his dreams. He's got a lot of folks back in Tulsa pulling for him - and at least one in the media center at Medinah.


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Tulsa World senior sports columnist John Klein is in his fourth decade of covering sports. He started his newspaper career at The Daily Ardmoreite in 1977 and moved to the Tulsa World in 1978. He served 10 years as sports editor for the Tulsa World before being named to his current position in 2005. He also spent five years as the Southwest Conference beat writer for the Houston Post. He has won many writing awards and is a former Oklahoma Sports Writer of the Year.

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