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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.

Discovery

BATON ROUGE — Did you watch the space shuttle launch? I did. It never gets old.
I watched on the NASA channel. I suspect Stetson University baseball coach Pete Dunn watched at his favorite outpost for such a view, an old bridge not far from DeLand, Fla., where the school is located. Two years ago when [...]

Smoke

BATON ROUGE — Former LSU baseball coach Smoke Laval is reportedly heading back to Jacksonville, Fla., where he played college baseball, to take over the program at the University of North Florida.
Smoke liked the program at North Florida a few years ago when the Ospreys came to Baton Rouge to play a series against the [...]

No more Pudge? Oh, fudge

BATON ROUGE — The headline reflects what I think my friend Roger might say about this apparent deal between the Astros and Rangers.

Maybe the old Colonel wasn’t so bad

BATON ROUGE — An update on the new Nicholls State logo and mascot.
Did the school go from bad to worse? What do you think?

Keeping it real … short

BATON ROUGE — So I saw some youth football players wearing jerseys with a word I’d never seen on a football jersey.
Esquires.
Apparently, that’s the team nickname.
There is a part of me that wonders if Inigo Montoya needs to speak with them.

The larger part of me thinks it’s the height of cleverness, and a sign of [...]

Mascot looks more modern, but not anything like F.T. Nicholls

BATON ROUGE — Perhaps you saw the story about Nicholls State updating its mascot for more modern look, something more “fierce,” one university official said.
Here is one story about the change.
I understand the underlying reasons for the retirement of the old mascot, which happened a few years ago, and this makeover. I support the spirit [...]