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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.

Catching up with Chad Ogea

BATON ROUGE — Fortunate enough to be invited to a recent LSU baseball reunion, I had a pleasant conversation with Chad Ogea, who pitched for the Tigers in the late 1980s and early ’90s.
There we were, two Lake Charles natives — and St. Louis Catholic High School graduates — catching up on old times. I [...]

A moment of silence

BATON ROUGE — On Feb. 19, 1943, Simeon Alexander Box died in action in North Africa during one of the lowest moments in World War II for the United States military, the Battle of Kasserine Pass.
Sixty-six years later, LSU is on the eve of opening the new Alex Box Stadium, named like its predecessor after [...]

Opening Night, one week from tonight

BATON ROUGE — At this time next Friday, LSU is scheduled to open the 2009 college baseball season in its new Alex Box Stadium. Tonight I spoke by phone with the nephew of the late LSU baseball and football star and World War II hero for whom the old and new ballparks were named. He’s [...]

Super Bowl XLIII

BATON ROUGE — Who you got?
My heart is usually with the underdog, which today is Arizona. I’ve always liked the Steelers, dating to Terry Bradshaw’s early years with Pittsburgh, and I have good friends with Terrible Towel collections.
There’s just something about that Cardinals logo on the helmet that reminds me of the NFL in the [...]