Down, definitely not out/As Ah-nold once said in just about all his flicks, “I’ll be back …”
MY BACK HURTS, Y’ALL … Haven’t posted much in the last week or so, outside a column getting ready for […]
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Jim Mashek column/In New Orleans, the Final Four is just part of the grand equation, homeslice …
TRUST ME, THE SUPERDOME IS THE PLACE TO BE TODAY Traditionalists don’t like it. It’s a massive structure, built for […]
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JIM MASHEK COLUMN/Purples guard Turner Buttry, the ultimate underdog, is named Kentucky’s ‘Mr. Basketball’
BUTTRY LEAVES IMPRESSIVE LEGACY AT BGHS OK, confession time. I met Tanya Buttry, Turner’s Mom, before exchanging a single word […]
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The name’s Dalton/Backup forward Dalton Farley delivers for Dragons in Sweet 16 quarterfinals
LEXINGTON — The gruesome movie is considered a “guilty pleasure” and was made almost three decades before Warren Central High […]
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Jim Mashek column/Legendary New Orleans Saints linebacker Sam Mills, aka ‘The Field Mouse,’ is headed to Canton
SECOND ‘DOME PATROL’ LINEBACKER IS HEADED TO THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME Thirty-five years ago, barely two decades into […]
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Dome Patrol Redux/A tribute to the late, great Vaughan Johnson, circa 2019
(Editor’s note: With the late, great Sam Mills being selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I grabbed this […]
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One year later/Rest in peace, Mark Williams
(Editor’s note: I wrote this before launching my web site in September. Mark was a high school football teammate who […]
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Jim Mashek column: One year later, Henry Aaron’s legacy shines even brighter
(Editor’s note: I wrote this column one year ago, before launching my web site. Godspeed, Mr. Aaron. You are dearly […]
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Jim Mashek column: Rest in peace, Andrea Yeager, the personable editor with a heart of gold
NATIVE TEXAN WAS ONE KIND SOUL ON THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST Twenty-eight years ago, give or take, after a long […]
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Jim Mashek column: With the late, great John Madden, the NFL’s best was always on the horizon
ONE OF THE GAME’S GIANTS, THE COLORFUL JOHN MADDEN DIES AT THE AGE OF 85 He’s been a part of […]
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