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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

A football frenzy: It's playoff/bowl season

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Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti: He has the  No. 1-ranked, unbeaten team: the story of the season         If you are college football fan, ...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

What's the price for winning?

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          A friend asked me about a half-dozen the past couple of weeks who LSU's new head football coach was going to be. H e asked fi...
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Sunday, November 16, 2025

Everyone has a story ...

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      Re-posting the blog on Amy Geneux Keck brought some riveting -- and surprising -- responses.       Oh, gosh, we often don't know w...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

The Bea tribute video link

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  Bea tribute.pptx   Click on the link, then go to "Slide Show" and click on it, go to the far left and click on "from the be...
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Beatrice A. Van Thyn

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     Beatrice A. Van Thyn, 80, passed away Saturday, October 18, 2025, at Trinity Terrace in Fort Worth, Texas, after months of dementia and...
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The beautiful Beatrice

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       She was, no question, the most important person in my life.       The day I met Beatrice -- she was wearing pink and looking attracti...
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Monday, August 4, 2025

Mom's appearance in an Iowa museum

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          An update on a blog piece we published on January 30 of this year ...        This is in reference to Mom (Rose Van Thyn) being par...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Dave Nitz to the rescue

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           Almost everyone who knew him fairly well has a Dave Nitz story. Here is mine.       He rescued me once from having to do play-by-...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

A heartfelt message

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     Like to wear the shirt with this message  because every time I do, people comment on it.      Special reason for posting it with this b...
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Nico Van Thyn
Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, came to the U.S. in 1956 at age 8, grew up in Shreveport, La., graduate of Woodlawn High School and Louisiana Tech University, sports writer/editor/copy editor for 45-plus years.
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