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Rink's Ramblings: Distance Night
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Sunday, May 31, 2015. The trip to Eugene proved a bit challenging. Delta did its best to keep me from getting there. Instead of landing in Portland on Thursday, I hit the ground Friday at Noon, just in time for my partner in crime Chris, to pick me up at the airport for the drive to Eugene. It had been amazing evening and we hadn't even gotten into the good stuff promised for Saturday. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Greatest Cat in the World. Once Upon a Time in the Vest. From The Rearview Mirror.
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Rink's Ramblings: March 2015
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Sunday, March 15, 2015. I Don't Hate Georges Niang. Watching the Laettner lovefest on ESPN Sunday night only further cemented my respect for one of the greatest players I've watched play my beloved Kansas Jayhawks in basketball. I'm talking about Iowa State Cyclone Georges Niang. I'm guessing he may not come back for his senior year, but Niang has been a very special player in the three years that he has terrorized the Big 12. So does Niang. I love watching Niang, a ball handling power forward with a...
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Rink's Ramblings: Eugene Bound
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Thursday, May 14, 2015. Two weeks from today for the first time in 11 years I will hop aboard a jet and fly west to Oregon for one of the best track meets the world has to offer. The Prefontaine Classic is always a distance running stud-fest. It's a meet I first attended back in 1985 on a rainy Saturday evening where I watched Mary Slaney take down the American Record for 5,000 meters. The best part of the meet is Eugene. The city has a feel to it that is impossible to describe unless you've been the...
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Rink's Ramblings: February 2015
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. I've been lucky to work with a number of talented people in my 30 plus years in television. One of the greats that I had the good fortune to spend more than half a dozen years with passed away Saturday. Dan Henry was 89. Dan loved wrapping himself in green in front of the chroma key wall, appearing before the viewers on Halloween as a floating head over a skeleton or some other bit of handywork drawn on the computer. But when severe weather came around, Dan was all busine...
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Rink's Ramblings: July 2014
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Sunday, July 27, 2014. I'm watching gym class on ESPN2, also called CrossFit. It stands right up there with Tough Mudders and Spartan runs in my list of meaningless sports. Except in this sport, it's painfully obvious that more than half of the competitors are loaded with steroids. Since when did gym class become a sport? And worse still, anyone engaged in this so-called sport is begging to get injured. I can't imagine the toll it would take on anyone over the age of 40 who tries doing this. The best thi...
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Rink's Ramblings: Timmie
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015. It's Not Dark Yet. I was born here and I'll die here, against my will.". Bob Timmons died Tuesday. He was one of four men that coached me as a runner. Everyone that ever knew him or competed for him knew him as "Timmie." I never got around to having the privilege of competing for him because he never gave me a chance. For a long time I carried that fact around like a cancer. I disliked him for it and for some other petty reasons. The day came about a couple of months into the s...
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Holland's Comet: Concert #117
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Well, I feel like pickin' a fight.with anybody who claims they're right.all the preacher men, the politicians, all the critics and the things they write."- Bob Walkenhorst, The Rainmakers "Reckoning Day" (1989). Thursday, August 22, 2013. Friday, August 16, 2013—Grinders) Ticket price: Free. And did they really expect those little shits to sit and watch the show? I felt like that chick in. Who uttered, "Would somebody get these fucking kids out of here! I was also shocked at how good the sound still was ...
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Holland's Comet: Fly Like The Egos ("Fly Like The Eagles?" remastered)
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Well, I feel like pickin' a fight.with anybody who claims they're right.all the preacher men, the politicians, all the critics and the things they write."- Bob Walkenhorst, The Rainmakers "Reckoning Day" (1989). Monday, April 29, 2013. Fly Like The Egos ("Fly Like The Eagles? Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001). I've always had a love/hate (more accurately "like/hate") relationship with the Eagles ever since the '70s. I absolutely hated them. Sorry, bud, you’re just a Rock band…. In lieu o...
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Holland's Comet: 28 April 2013
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Well, I feel like pickin' a fight.with anybody who claims they're right.all the preacher men, the politicians, all the critics and the things they write."- Bob Walkenhorst, The Rainmakers "Reckoning Day" (1989). Monday, April 29, 2013. Fly Like The Egos ("Fly Like The Eagles? Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001). I've always had a love/hate (more accurately "like/hate") relationship with the Eagles ever since the '70s. I absolutely hated them. Sorry, bud, you’re just a Rock band…. In lieu o...