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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.

 Meet the Blogger

Thoughts on Quinten Lawrence

BATON ROUGE — I asked Kent Babb, a friend who covers the Chiefs for the Kansas City Star, his initial thoughts on the NFL team’s drafting of McNeese wide receiver Quinten Lawrence in the sixth round.
“I think the Chiefs see Lawrence only as a return guy,” he responded by e-mail. “They’ve drafted guys the past [...]

Initially skeptical

BATON ROUGE — There should be a law, with the technology to back it up, that arms every computer user’s chair with enough of a jolt of electricity to shock the person straight if he or she commits the following transgression: typing LOL if, in fact, they are chatting and not laughing out loud.
I suspect [...]

I don’t know how it happened, but …

… I’m in first place in the No Idiots Allowed Fantasy League for Major League Baseball.
I’d tell you more, but I’d be violating the first rule of every league: Nobody cares about your fantasy team.
Still, I had to tell somebody. First place. How did that happen?
Sorry. And have a good day.

Clutter

BATON ROUGE — The NFL Draft hasn’t even started yet, and I’m already yawning.
I slept. I didn’t sleep enough.
 
Typically my mind races when I try to fall asleep at night. Races and races and races. Years after first trying, I still can’t find the off switch, or even the idle switch. Pause would be acceptable.
If [...]

Flashbacks

BATON ROUGE — Going through my closets, I found a lot of memories.

 
That’s an album of music, released in the early 1970s, of the McNeese marching band, which was called the Sound of the Seventies. Boy, does that take me back.
I went to almost every home game once I was old enough, and I remember [...]

ilovetoscore.com

BATON ROUGE — Once a year, I could count on someone in the accounting department to ask me why I’d charged items from a Web site called ilovetoscore.com on my company credit card. At least once, the woman who received my monthly statements wondered aloud whether I’d been visiting indiscreet Web sites on the company [...]

A sad day for baseball

BATON ROUGE — This has been a cruel April for the Major League Baseball community, and today it got worse, and worse still.
Longtime Philadelphia Phillies announcer Harry Kalas, 73, died while preparing for today’s game against the Washington Nationals. Former Detroit Tigers rookie pitching sensation Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, 54, died as the result of [...]

Sports and music

BATON ROUGE — Speaking of music (which I was earlier) …
Without really trying, I’ve built quite a collection of songs related to sports in one way or another (as far as I know, that does not include “One Way Or Another” by Blondie, which has no immediately recognizable relationship to sports).
Right now I’m listening to [...]

When is now?

BATON ROUGE — I did some pruning, cleaning and rearranging of my music collection over the weekend. During the process, I stored some files that required labeling. Needing to pick a genre for one CD, I settled upon Contemporary Jazz.
I won’t tell you the artist — I’m sure someone would blast me for putting the [...]

Here’s the pitch …

The umpire, if he deserves to be there at all, hollers “Play ball!” You walk from the on-deck circle toward home plate. You approach the batter’s box like an inspector, paying great attention to detail.
An expert grounds crew spent much of the offseason preparing the field, and before the game the dirt around home plate [...]