EDITOR’S NOTE — When Buffalo’s Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest on the field during an NFL game, it brought to…
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(This originally ran in the December 5, 2010 Sunday editions of The Times and The News-Star.) We get up every morning…
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Some things are plain stupid. There’s no gray area. 3-D Dumb. .Some people I know where robbed recently, but in his…
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Ran originally in the Sunday, November 2, 2010 editions of The Times and The News-Star. The American working world recently honored…
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(In honor of Halloween and with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe and The Raven…) Once upon a June night dreary, while…
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This ran August 29, 2010, a few days after Lou Pinella retired. Many of you won’t care that Lou Pinella retired…
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(Ran originally in Sunday editions of The Times and The News-Star Sunday, September 1, 2019.) Hats in hands and uncommonly meek,…
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(This ran 11 years ago so FBC Ruston is now about 134ish years old, nine years older than Louisiana Tech University,…
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By TEDDY ALLEN/Designated Writers Ruston High will be changing its logo, pictured here, because Rutgers, which is in New Jersey and…
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From our hotel room high in St. Louis, we could see fans by the thousands cruising into the downtown Scottrade Center…
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