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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.

I feel a draft in here

BATON ROUGE — It must be the anticipation.
Friday is draft day in the No Idiots Allowed Fantasy League, which paid me the ultimate compliment by inviting me to join (apparently cementing my status as a non-idiot) in time for the 2009 Major League Baseball Season.
Soon, I’ll be on the clock.
I haven’t participated in a fantasy [...]

How’s your Barack-et?

BATON ROUGE — So, President Obama has 14 of his picks for the Sweet 16 on track.
You?

Misnomer of the decade

Securities.
That is all.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

BATON ROUGE — Go for the green.
Matthew Artus, on his baseball blog for NJ.com, writes about baseball going green.
The Boston Globe featured a cool photo gallery on its Web site two years ago, showing the Red Sox on what it called a Green Day. My favorite picture is the one of Jonathan Papelbon, with whom [...]

March Madness

BATON ROUGE — Got your bracket filled out?
What’s your strategy? Favorite colors? Animals? Mascots? Maybe you’re one of those people who actually considers the relative merits of the basketball teams. OK, whatever.
The only time I’ve ever won, I picked UCLA to win it all, and the Bruins did. It took me about five minutes to [...]

Sleepless in Seattle

BATON ROUGE — Please excuse the unoriginal headline. Please excuse my infrequent posting lately. Please excuse another journalism post.
But sleepless was indeed the state of being last night for many in Seattle who have long been a part of the industry I’ve spent my adult life learning and being a part of. Whether it was [...]

Rocky without a sequel

BATON ROUGE — The Rocky Mountain News published its last edition Friday. Since learning the newspaper’s fate Thursday afternoon, I’ve struggled to put my thoughts and emotions into words.
Here’s what I came up with: I can’t give you a comprehensive breakdown of why newspapers are in trouble, don’t want to get into a debate about [...]