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Former American Press sportswriter Carl Dubois blogs about the games people play, in and out of sports, and the people you meet between and outside the lines.

Carl is an award-winning reporter and columnist living in the Willamette Valley in northwest Oregon, near Portland. He is sports editor of the News-Register newspaper in McMinnville, Ore.

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This is why I love talk radio

BATON ROUGE — I heard a local talk show host say this yesterday:
“The believability of LSU athletics is unsurpassable by nobody.”
I’m going to let that one sink in a bit before I tell you what I think he was trying to say. Got any guesses?

Saints need Second Line draft

Here’s what I think: The Saints won the Super Bowl this year. Keep the party going. Have a Second Line draft.
Don’t draft on need. Don’t draft to please Mel Kiper Jr. Draft a second line.
Offensive line, defensive line — it doesn’t matter. Pick one. Then draft a second line, one that would substitute for the [...]

Hey, Bluetooth guy

Yeah, you, the guy stumbling around the convenience store with that certain sonic blindness, oblivious to much of your surroundings, engrossed in your conversation too important to interrupt while you search for carbs or caffeine or both.
I’m sure you have an important job. I’m sure you make more money than I do. I’m sure you’re [...]

In this economy, this Guy has a job?

Add Guy Morriss to the list of dinosaur coaches without a clue or any sort of perspective. CLICK HERE to find out more. You can find another story with more detail by CLICKING HERE.
The administration at Texas A&M-Commerce probably doesn’t have to worry about its football players making their next extracurricular project stealing books from [...]

Post-card from the French Quarter

NEW ORLEANS — Super Bowl Sunday has become early Monday morning, almost imperceptibly, and this afterglow of the Super Bowl victory by the New Orleans Saints still feels like something that might forever be called Lombardi Gras.
The fusion of the NFL’s championship trophy with the Carnival atmosphere in the Big Easy in February 2010 seems [...]

New Orleans Saints, NFL champions

NEW ORLEANS — Did I just write that headline?
Excuse me, but I have  a few hundred thousand people to celebrate with here in the Big Easy. The Saints just won the Super Bowl. I wonder if any adult beverages will be available in the French Quarter.
After tonight, I mean.
See ya!

My guess? Slow start, strong finish

NEW ORLEANS — Here’s how I think the Saints might be adversely affected during their first Super Bowl: too much adrenaline early in the game.
I’ve seen it before in teams playing for a city, a state and a region.
LSU’s first home football game after Hurricane Katrina, that Monday night game against Tennessee, was an emotional [...]

That Louisiana chip sits heavy on the shoulder

NEW ORLEANS — Let it go, WWL Radio. Let it go, callers. Let it go, Louisiana. Enjoy the Super Bowl.
Driving around Baton Rouge the past couple of weeks, I’ve listened to a little bit of sports talk radio. The same Louisiana-chip-on-the-shoulder mentality I hear every LSU football season — “The national media doesn’t respect us” [...]

Why aren’t you here in New Orleans?

NEW ORLEANS — If you can’t be in Miami, is there any better place to watch the Super Bowl than here?
Where y’at?? If you’re here, holler and we’ll meet up after the game!
I’ll blog some thoughts on the game and all the hype a bit later. For now, my new Saints logo, which is really [...]

Saints in the Super Bowl? Yeah, right

I woke up today from a dream in which the New Orleans Saints made it to the Super Bowl. They not only made it, but they won 30-27. Ha! Silly stuff, dreams.
The Saints won’t ever play in a Super Bowl. It’s impossible. The football gods won’t allow it. I know this because I’ve been [...]

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