It must have started with the baby blanket thing. Someone, in their infinite wisdom decided that boy babies should have a blue blanket and girls should have a pink one. Who was this idiot anyway and what does blue have to do with boys and pink with girls? Why couldn’t the color have been yellow for boys and green for girls? Or mauve and periwinkle? Why are the covers of “chick lit” books all pink? If you wander down your local Barnes & Noble and stop in the Women’s Literature section, 75% of the books ...

It was reported on Yahoo that Queen Elizabeth II of England will be making here traditional Christmas speech available as a podcast for the first time. The broadcast will show the queen, wearing a green outfit, chatting to schoolchildren as she helps them make a collage of a nativity scene. “It should twinkle rather well, shouldn’t it … especially when the lights are on it,” the queen remarks during the podcast. Although she is about two years late to the podcasting party (and fourteen months behind me, the Golf Gear Guru), I have to commend her for embracing new technologies. If someone ...

CLICK HERE to listen. In Episode #28 of Golf Gear News, host Bruce Stasch reports at The Newstand on the Golf Digest Top 200 Political Golfers, and Scotland Opens Children’s Golf Course. In She Golfs Too we explores the Sale of Nancy Lopez Golf and learn about one of the Youngest Female Players Chosen for UK Golf Team. The Guru Commentary rants about Dick’s Sporting Goods’ Purchase of Golf Galaxy. Duffer McDoughall Johansen returns with Duffer Part Deux. In Golf Around the World we visit Private Escapes Club and for only USD $350K entry fee you too can join. We hear ...

I had written in April that Dick’s had opened a prototype concept store called simply The Golf Shop. Now, it appears that Dick’s didn’t want to wait to see how it would perform. Instead they went out and bought Golf Galaxy for $225 million. According to Edward W. Stack, chairman and CEO of Dick’s, he believes that the industry is ripe for consolidation, that’s why they swooped in and grabbed Golf Galaxy. With a sluggish industry firmly in a recession, some analysts wonder why Dick’s is willing to invest so much in the golf retailing space. Dick’s Sporting Goods, with 300 ...