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Thursday, August 30, 2012

The Team Named Desire

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       The first high school football game I saw, 51 years ago, began with a 90-minute delay because the lights wouldn't come on at Shre...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Turn on the lights

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    No one knows better than LSU and New Orleans Saints fans how hurricanes can mess with football season.      With that in mind as I writ...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Have faith

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      Many of these blog pieces have been trips down "memory lane." This one will not be.       This one will be about my world t...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

A case for integrity

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Lee Hedges, speaking at his recent induction to the Ark-La- Tex Sports Museum Hall of Fame (Shreveport Times photo)          Whenever I...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

A trial in Germany (two stories, 1986)

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Shreveport Journal , March 20, 1986 Survivor travels to Germany for trial of SS guard   By Steve Norder , Journal Staff Writer      The ...

Dad takes on a Nazi

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      OK, the headline might be a little misleading. My dad didn't really take on a Nazi. But in 1986, he did go to West Germany and -- ...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

The road to (and from) Ringgold

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      Not much goes on in Ringgold, Louisiana. It is typical conservative small-town America -- no big buildings, not much new, really. In f...
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Friday, August 3, 2012

Whatever happened to Baby Lou?

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     Other than Mickey Mantle, my favorite baseball player when I was a kid was an infielder named Lou Klimchock.     Guys my age from Shre...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

One coach tops them all

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         My favorite coach, and one of my favorite people, is a gentleman -- a gentle man -- named Lee Hedges.      People who know me well...
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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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