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Teddy: August 2014
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Pick me out a winner, Bobby." - Roy Hobbs. Sunday, August 31, 2014. Local laddie to tee’er up in Perthshire. From today's TIMES and NEWS-STAR. The three teenagers are Sam Burns and Nathan Jeansonne of Calvary Baptist and Philip Barbaree of C.E. Byrd, each a member of their high school’s state championship golf team and each a Top 7 finisher in the Junior PGA on a Bryan, Texas, course in August. Sam finished first. This is no small feat. Two things here for the non-golf fan:. The courses are different and...
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Teddy: December 2014
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Pick me out a winner, Bobby." - Roy Hobbs. Sunday, December 28, 2014. You never really outgrow being a Chicken. From today's TIMES and NEWS-STAR. This is being written a week ahead of time. As I write this, South Carolina’s Gamecocks and the Hurricane of the University of Miami haven’t even left Columbia and Florida for Shreveport and their scheduled football game yet. But by the time you read this, their Duck Commander Independence Bowl is in the books. Does that make me a bad person? Oh, the humanity!
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Teddy: March 2015
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Pick me out a winner, Bobby." - Roy Hobbs. Sunday, March 29, 2015. A secret reason why all daisies look alike. From today's TIMES and NEWS-STAR. Did you ever pay attention, in your 20s, to a flower? If you are 30 or older, when you look back on your younger days, do you imagine this rose or that one, this azalea, that pistachio or crabapple tree, and how your heart longs to go back and …? Shoot, no. Me either. But with age comes an appreciation for things you’ve been looking at all your life but no...
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Teddy: November 2014
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Pick me out a winner, Bobby." - Roy Hobbs. Sunday, November 30, 2014. If you’re a giraffe, duck – if you can. From today's TIMES and NEWS-STAR. A while back, after a run-in with a Brussels sprout, I started a list of ways I won’t buy the farm. Choking on a Brussels spout is No. 1. Solid No. 1. Followed by these:. Hot-air balloon accident (unless one falls on me);. Getting trampled in a soccer riot; or,. 8220;He’s hunted down various this-a-lopes and that-a-beasts and whatnot,” Other typed. 8221; I typed ...
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Teddy: 'But tonight, I know the people back home in Rayville are watching...'
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Pick me out a winner, Bobby." - Roy Hobbs. Sunday, June 21, 2015. But tonight, I know the people back home in Rayville are watching.'. From today's TIMES and NEWS-STAR. I wasn’t at the induction ceremony the night basketball great Elvin Hayes of Rayville and Eula D. Britton High joined the Class of 1988 in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. But I’ve been told. It’s a different kind of night, because you never know when an Elvin Hayes will happen. An All-American and player of the year at Houston, an All-...
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Teddy: February 2015
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Pick me out a winner, Bobby." - Roy Hobbs. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Ask the Paperboy, Chapter 48: 50 Shades of ‘Cray’. From today's TIMES and NEWS-STAR. Dear Ask the Paperboy,. Is it true that one of your ingenious friends wants to manufacture a harmonica bone for dogs? 8220;Spot,” Vienna. Dear Ask the Paperboy:. Did you read “50 Shades of Grey”? Off-Color in Baton Rouge. Dear Ask the Paperboy:. Are you joking about the “50 Shades”? 8220;For the second consecutive season, Grey’s BDSM of .310 ...LINE OF...
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Teddy: April 2015
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Pick me out a winner, Bobby." - Roy Hobbs. Sunday, April 26, 2015. Cinematic celebration of a special 70th anniversary: V-E Day. From Sunday's TIMES and NEWS-STAR. Many of you were around for May 8, 1945, when you and the rest of America and Great Britain celebrated Victory in Europe Day, the end of World War II and the Allies’ victory over the Nazi war machine. Anniversary of V-E Day. HBO’s “Band of Brothers” mini-series is the best WWII film I’ve seen, and its sister film “...I have to agree with ...
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Teddy: On Fouth of July Week, a peek back and when things worked right
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Pick me out a winner, Bobby." - Roy Hobbs. Monday, June 29, 2015. On Fouth of July Week, a peek back and when things worked right. From Sunday's TIMES and NEWS-STAR). Louisiana and the Lusitania. Don’t see those two words in the same sentence often. There are reasons. President Woodrow Wilson was reluctant to go to war, a sentiment that seemed shared by much of America, Larson writes. Of course, no one wants to go jumping into World Wars all over the place. It took the nation almost a year to...But there...
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Teddy: January 2015
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Pick me out a winner, Bobby." - Roy Hobbs. Sunday, January 25, 2015. This pistol-packin’ great grandma’s a straight shooter. From today's TIMES and NEWS STAR. My young friend Clayton is the only college freshman I know to have a partial set of hippopotamus teeth in his bedroom. And in a shadow box too. Nicely displayed. My grandmother used to send me a dollar in a card on my birthday. Was I shortchanged? I know this from experience. Walking into grandmamma’s den while. Both Clayton’s great grandmot...
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Teddy: May 2015
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Pick me out a winner, Bobby." - Roy Hobbs. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Oh hi Doc: Wait: you want me to do . what? From today's TIMES and NEWS-STAR). A colonoscopy is what I like to call the ultimate in spring cleaning. Hardly anyone likes to talk about it. To this I say, good! Butt, we should talk about it from time to time because it's of crucial. Importance: once we stumble upon age 50, these things are crucial in early. Detection of one of nature's cruelest surprises. I stepped to the plate a. Some of Donni...