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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 based in Baton Rouge. He is associate editor of Tiger Rag magazine.

This is not Heather Narbit’s blog

NEW ORLEANS — And now for something completely different …
Let’s pretend it’s Sunday, cool and clear and the hint of winter coming. What would you do? You could, if you were moving more toward being on the sideline as a From the Sideline blogger, go to the Crescent City and spend a day doing whatever.
Truth [...]

Fall ball

BATON ROUGE — So, I went on LSU’s campus for only the second time in nearly two months, to Alex Box Stadium for the first time since the Tigers won the June super regional against UC Irvine for the right to play in the College World Series.
It was a beautiful day for baseball.

Fall practice continues [...]

Kirk Gibson and Steve Meaux, in what-if slow-mo

BATON ROUGE — The 20th anniversary of Kirk Gibson’s game-ending home run in the 1988 World Series opener triggered a lot of memories for sports fans of a certain age.
It made me think of Steve Meaux.
Sure, everyone else who remembers that 5-4 victory by the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Oakland A’s has other names [...]

Radio Man

BATON ROUGE — So, as I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted …
This is my first piece for the American Press since December 1997, when I left for The Times in Shreveport, then for The Advocate in Baton Rouge. In September I resigned from the latter for health reasons — it being unhealthy [...]