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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

So long ago, but still so sweet

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         The dates January 7 and January 12 are special to our family, and will be for as long as we're here.       Those dates, in 195...
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

What a year it's been ... (un)forgettable

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      We are all more than happy to bid the year 2020 farewell. Go away.        It has been a year we'd all like to forget. But, loss of...
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Monday, December 28, 2020

Danny Hodge was our "good guy" in wrestling

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

An anonymous baseball name from the past

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         Johnnie Dawson was a catcher in professional baseball in the 1930s and 1940s, and he was from rural Caddo Parish who became, for a ...
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Saturday, November 28, 2020

ON TRACK cover story: "Mondo" the magnificent and the vaulting Duplantis family

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Thursday, November 19, 2020

ON TRACK -- the book on Louisiana high school outdoor track and field

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     This has been a two-year project, updating what Jerry Byrd Sr. had in a 2004 book on Louisiana high school track and field. This is a ...
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Friday, November 13, 2020

A tough, old Marine: a story to be told

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            I was asked to write this for Veterans Day, and it was my pleasure. This is a man who much deserves to be recognized.  Art is a ...
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Saturday, October 3, 2020

Wendell was the best, and so was our boss

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"The best newspaper boss I worked for was the last newspaper boss I worked for."  -- Wendell Barnhouse, about Celeste Williams ( F...
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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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