We lost a couple of much admired cowboys from our Southeast Texas area over the weekend. O.A. “Bum” Phillips, best known as Houston Oilers head coach during it’s “Luv Ya Blue era,” died Friday. He was 90. John Garner, 82, a Southeast Texas TV icon who played “Cowboy John” on the local “Circle 4 Club” …
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It has been quite some time since I could claim myself as a Dallas Cowboys fan. Many, many years it has been. I think it was when the Cowboys became the so-called “America’s Team” that I swore off of them. How dare them! America’s team, my ass. Whose team was the Charger’s, Tijuana? Nonetheless, I …
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Quick. What pops into your mind when you think Dutch? Treat? Rembrandt? Sex and drugs? Well, whatever you envision you probably aren’t thinking Tex Ritter are you? That is unless you live in Nederland, Texas, and happen to know who is Tex Ritter. For those of you who do not know, Tex Ritter was a …
Gov. Nathan Deal, R-Ga., went before cameras and reporters this afternoon to take the blame for the massive traffic chaos in the Atlanta area that ensued during this week’s winter storm. The more than 2.5 inches of ice that became an urban glacier left motorists stranded, shoppers sleeping in supermarkets and kids spending the night …
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Excuse me for slacking but it’s raining and thundering outside. All of that in itself is pretty great as we have been kind of short on rain, says someone who lives where the rain averages 55 inches of precip annually. Of course, I like to keep up with what the weather is doing. Not so …
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