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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

They tell me the definition of insanity is …

… doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
There is an infant yelling loudly in one of the libraries here in East Baton Rouge Parish. Every few seconds, LOUD NOISES. This has been going on for the 30 minutes I’ve been here.
Every time the infant makes the LOUD NOISES, someone — presumably [...]

Austin powers

BATON ROUGE — LSU has a pitcher named Austin Ross and a shortstop named Austin Nola. The Minnesota Gophers, who came here this weekend for the NCAA Baton Rouge Baseball Regional, have a pitcher named Austin Lubinsky.
Alabama, a Southeastern Conference rival of the LSU Tigers, has an Austin Evans, an Austin Graham and an Austin [...]

Graduation etiquette

BATON ROUGE — I watched my nephew’s graduation online Saturday. He graduated from Mater Dei in Santa Ana, Calif., and the school streamed the audio and video of the ceremony live on the Web.
The master of ceremonies made the requisite “Please hold your applause until all the graduates have been named” announcement, and kudos to [...]

Wow

BATON ROUGE — That’s all most of us can say after the Texas Longhorns defeated Boston College 3-2 in 25 innings last night.
Twenty-five innings.
Not surprisingly, my friend Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman wrote a column that lived up to the moment. He writes about Texas pitcher Austin Wood and his 13 innings of relief pitching.
Wait [...]

Hmm

BATON ROUGE — Southern sure made a run at it, yes?
For six innings, I was thinking about my dream — and yesterday’s post.
Then, the wheels came off.

Dreaming big

BATON ROUGE — Don’t ask me why, because I can’t tell you. I have no idea why I dreamed I was part of a postgame news conference following a Southern University victory against LSU in today’s first-round game at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional.
First pitch is more than two hours away, and with everything else [...]

‘Price is Right’ will not appear in this post, I promise

BATON ROUGE — Now that the Tampa Bay Rays have called up pitcher David Price from the minor leagues, fans and curiosity seekers and the chroniclers of the game will have their eyes on him, waiting to see if he lives up to expectations.
I suspect he will over the long haul. My first exposure to [...]

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead

And Brett Favre is still retired.
I think.
I may stop in Kiln, Miss., on my home from the SEC baseball tournament in Alabama and check to see if anybody there knows anything.

Pet peeve, politeness division

May 22, 2009
Pretty girl on the suite level at the ballpark:
I suppose people open doors for you all the time, but it still couldn’t hurt for you to say “Thank you.” Beautiful becomes ugly when you walk through the open door without extending that courtesy or any other kind of acknowledgement. Just thought you should [...]

Sometimes it pays to break the rules

BATON ROUGE — The smartest thing I did during my fantasy baseball draft was break a cardinal rule.
I drafted someone I know.
Toronto Blue Jays infielder Aaron Hill leads the majors in hits. He’s one of the reasons Toronto is off to an unexpectedly hot start. He’s one of the reasons my first fantasy team in [...]

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