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OLD SPORTS DUDE: The most important answers to questions

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On Tue, 03/02/2021 - 02:59 PM

I’ve asked a lot of coaches a lot of questions over my 45 years as a journalist. Most of those questions, along with their partnered answers, have long been forgotten — save for one.

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OLD SPORTS DUDE: Some legends are even bigger than their names

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On Tue, 02/23/2021 - 11:54 AM

As I walked into the locker room, reporter’s pad and pen firmly in hand, my eyes quickly scanned this way and that, seeking out my target. In a matter of moments, it was located.

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Old Sports Dude: A phone call, a coach and a two-fingered typist changed everything

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On Tue, 02/16/2021 - 12:23 PM

Over the past 45 years I have worked at a place or two, and have never failed to learn a little something at each of those stops.

The majority of my professional career has consisted of working in the newspaper industry, although I have also dabbled in broadcasting along the way.

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OLD SPORTS DUDE: Some legends are even bigger than their names

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On Tue, 02/16/2021 - 12:48 PM

The distinct smell of cigarette smoke hung in the air as two dozen grown men, give or take a handful, stood in near silence in a reverent semicircle as they hung on to every word that came forth from the man sitting on the couch.

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OLD SPORTS DUDE: Part one of an intriguing tale of three coaches

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On Tue, 02/02/2021 - 02:43 PM

This is a tale of three coaches — one who nearly gave me a new name, one who jump-started my sports writing career, and one who changed the course of my life.

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Old Sports Dude: Aaron’s historic homer much more than a moment

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On Tue, 01/26/2021 - 02:34 PM

Just the mention of Hank Aaron’s name causes my baseball-infected mind to be overloaded with thoughts, memories, and praise for the man who was truly an ambassador of the sport and a glimmer of hope for a nation that was in a civil rights crisis in the mid-1970s

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OLD SPORTS DUDE: Career highway has many road signs along way

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On Wed, 01/20/2021 - 05:00 AM

Most of us who have managed to put together a career have a laundry list of people to thank, or blame, according to how you look at it.

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Old Sports Dude: You never know where life-changing moments will be birthed

By Austin Bishop | Special to the Appeal, READ MORE > 6,302 Reads
On Tue, 01/12/2021 - 01:00 PM

From my early teens until now, a major portion of my life has been consumed by sports. But it hasn’t always been that way.

Until I was 11, I couldn’t have named even a handful of professional sports teams and quite frankly wasn’t interested. Not even a little bit. In fact, not at all.

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COLUMN: Meandering through decades of journalism, people, places and memories

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On Thu, 01/07/2021 - 05:00 AM

Welcome to the Old Sports Dude farewell tour. After 45 years in the newspaper business — most of it covering sports on all levels in Mississippi — this week begins my final year as a journalist.

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Yellowjackets can't keep up with Tornadoes

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On Mon, 10/15/2018 - 07:20 PM

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia High School football team left a lot of points on the field in the first half. That was not the case over the last 24 minutes of the game as the Tornadoes, now 6-3 overall and 2-0 in Region 4-2A play, scored five touchdowns in the second half to take a 42-7 win over visiting Union on Thursday night.

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