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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.

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Eat Mor Chikin

What advertising person made the determination that cows can write but just can’t spell very well?

Congratulations, Louis

Today the College Sports Information Directors of America inducts McNeese Senior Associate Athletic Director and SID Louis Bonnette into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame during an annual gathering held this year in San Antonio, Texas.
Congratulations, Louis.
They don’t roll off the assembly line like Louis Bonnette anymore. He’s finishing his 44th year as SID at McNeese. [...]

Happy Father’s Day

BATON ROUGE — I hope you have a great day.
Happy Father’s Day.

Good scheduling is always worth applauding

BATON ROUGE — Call me crazy, but I couldn’t see much of a downside to the announcement late last week that McNeese State, Appalachian State and Montana signed a series of contracts for home-and-away football games in the next decade.
Cowboys athletic director Tommy McClelland last Thursday announced the additions to the university’s football schedule. They include McNeese and Montana [...]

You can help make history, or at least give it a place of honor

BATON ROUGE — My friends at the Louisiana State Museum and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame would like you to read this, so I thought I’d pass it along:
Think you may have a significant piece of Louisiana sports history in your den, attic, or trophy case? If so, don’t put your treasure on eBay [...]

Oh, Henry

BATON ROUGE — I feel old.
Seth Henry, the son of my long-ago McNeese baseball teammate Lud Henry, signed a contract Tuesday with the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
It’s not like it was a huge surprise. Covering LSU and Tulane games the past few years, I saw the younger Henry play in the infield for Tulane. A few [...]

The Insider

BATON ROUGE — Al Pacino plays Lowell Bergman, former producer for “Sixty Minutes,” in the 1999 film “The Insider.” A line he speaks keeps coming back to me as we in this land of ours have fewer journalists and more bloggers trying to fill the void.
” ‘I’m Lowell Bergman. I’m from “Sixty Minutes.” ‘You [...]

Read my blog, ESPN

BATON ROUGE — The ESPN college baseball gang still doesn’t fully understand the “when leading after six innings” stat.
Oh well. I tried.

Gimme an ‘S’ … gimme a ‘Z’ … wait, let’s see …

BATON ROUGE — Life and its sense of humor often have a wonderful symmetry.
Or maybe I should say zymmetry.
After a Tuesday visit to Lake Charles, I was reading through a copy of Lagniappe Magazine I picked up while in town, and I read Rick Sarro’s sports column. In it, he talked about St. Louis Catholic [...]

Caution: Someone’s citing statistics

BATON ROUGE — In the love-it-or-hate-it movie “For Love of the Game,” Kevin Costner’s character tells Kelly Preston’s character he’s lost 134 games as a major league pitcher.
“You count them?” she asks, incredulous.
“We count everything,” he says.
True.
Just as true: Statistics are often misunderstood, misapplied and incorrectly cited.
Late in the second and deciding game of the [...]

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