Photo: Yahoo!

Our old advertising art director Kate Mitchell (who now works on the other side of the office at D) sent this story over to me earlier today with the email subject “UP On Yahoo!” Intrigued, I continued.

The story is about closets, so if that’s the kind of thing that doesn’t interest you, you can probably stop reading this now. If closets do interest you, the story discusses closets across America, in for-sale homes.

They touched down in University Park, to check out PGA golfer Justin Leonard’s house on Turtle Creek:

The closet has shelving for shoes and cowboy boots, as well as overhead storage for hats and out-of-season clothing.

As I said, the place is for sale. So if you have $6.5 million on hand and like huge closets, dive in.

Lucy Wrubel

When I go to the website for Dallas City Hall, I don’t expect to see the face of Lucy Wrubel, the coolest DJ the Park Cities has ever produced. But there she is alongside Lyle Lovett, because they will both be performing at the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge celebration party on March 2.

The Rev. Ron Scates catches a pitch from Clayton Kershaw on Thursday night. (Photo: Susan Hudson)

Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw was the featured speaker at Highland Park Presbyterian Church last Thursday. He and his wife, Ellen, recently published a book called Arise: Live Out Your Faith and Dreams on Whatever Field You Find Yourself, and Kershaw discussed both their missions to Africa and his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The talk began with the Rev. Ron Scates catching a pitch from Kershaw, which isn’t as out of left field as you might think. Andrew Scates, the pastor’s oldest son, was a catcher on the HPHS baseball team when Kershaw was a pitcher for the Scots. Ron, who officiated the Kershaws’ wedding, even attended San Antonio’s Trinity University on a baseball scholarship.

You can read more about the event in the Feb. 10 edition of Park Cities People.

You asked, here it is.

The Highland Park girls basketball team will take on Rockwall-Heath at 7:30 tonight in its final home game of the season.

Seniors Libby Ethington, Amanda Goodwin, Sydney McDaniel, Savanna Taylor, and Sarah Werner will be honored prior to the game.

The Lady Scots (20-7, 8-4) are in a three-way tie for second place in the District 10-4A standings with McKinney North and Wylie. McKinney is just one game behind those three teams. Rockwall has already wrapped up the district title, so one of those four teams in the log jam for second place will not make the playoffs.

Highland Park wraps up the regular season on Tuesday at McKinney.

…is that kids can’t spell. Have you glanced through the comments section on that post? I’ve seen better grammar spray-painted on a boxcar.

Future leaders of America, clinging to AutoCorrect on their phones.

The Scots have tentatively set their 2012 schedule. (Staff photo: Chris McGathey)

Every two years, when the University Interscholastic League unveils its realignment and reclassification of districts, tons of football coaches gather at Birdiville ISD Fine Arts/Athletics Complex the morning the new districts for the next two years are released.

Once that happens, coaches from the new districts meet and set their district football schedules. Coaches also finalize their non-district schedules, once they know how many district games they’ll have. It’s always a madhouse. And it’s always a blast.

This morning, I got to go out and cover that very event, which is always one of my favorite things to do. As Dan posted earlier, Highland Park found out which teams will be in its new district for football, basketball, baseball and several other sports.

We already knew Highland Park’s football team opens next season against Aledo in the Tom Landry Classic. The rest of the schedule has the Scots hosting Tulsa Northeast Oklahoma Association of Home Schools and going to Sherman to round out non-district play. Highland Park will then have a bye week before opening District 10-4A play at home against Forney. The Scots will then play back-to-back road games at North Forney and Mesquite Poteet. Highland Park then hosts West Mesquite, travels to Carrollton Creekview, and then hosts Carrollton Newman Smith and Terrell to close out the regular season.

The non-district schedule will be the same in 2013, with the exception of Sherman coming to Highlander Stadium. The District 10-4A schedule will be the same with the home teams reversed from the 2012 schedule.

The UIL unveiled its new districts this morning. Joining the Highland Park Scots in District 10-4A for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years are Forney, North Forney, Terrell, Mesquite Poteet, West Mesquite, Carrollton Creekview, and Carrollton Newman Smith.

Back in 2009, SMU runner Monika Korra had a bold message for the world: She’d been kidnapped and brutally raped, but the experience wasn’t going to define her.

This spring, ESPN plans to run a TV feature about the Norway native’s story, which was reported last April in The Dallas Morning News. (This DMN post links to a trailer and the original writeup.) And rest assured, Korra’s still running her heart out.

Just … wow.

Nick Rose flashes the Hook ’em Horns with his mother, Kathy, by his side during National Signing Day at Highland Park High School. Rose was one of seven Highland Park athletes who signed letters of intent. The other six were Kelsey Bass (Oklahoma State), Megan Gittins (Princeton), Parker Kennedy (Fort Lewis), Tanner Stone (Duke), Taylor Sorrels (Florida Atlantic), and Tyler Rentfro (McMurry).