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137 stories found, listing (1 - 25)
Published Friday, November 20, 2009
There are many aspects of fantasy football that don't jive with the real game. For example, fantasy owners often own players from their favorite team's biggest rival. When those teams square off, the fantasy owner has one of those fan identity crisis ...
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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
Sportsmanship is alive and well on The Eagle's 18-mammal Prognosticator Panel.KZNE SportsTalk's Chip Howard, the winningest picker in the panel's proud past, picked Kansas to upset Nebraska last week. He either had a premonition or indigestion from t ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
[Editor's note: This originally was written for the fifth anniversary of the bonfire collapse and has been updated accordingly.]As a former battalion adjutant, I understood how to do casualty reporting, so that morning Maj. [later Col.] Jake Betty an ...
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Published Sunday, November 15, 2009
I'm a sucker for catalogs, and I was wondering if you are, too.During my formative years in East Texas, the arrival of the Sears Christmas catalog was a red-letter day. When it came, I'd fight for first dibs with my sister Myrtle Mae -- no, that's no ...
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Published Friday, November 13, 2009
This is a day that worries a lot of people -- Friday the 13th. It's no different on The Eagle's 18-mammal Prognosticator Panel.The two people most likely to take a fall are Eagle editor Donnis Baggett and home builder Dan Sears.Donnis has been top do ...
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Published Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Veterans Day is not just another shopping day or holiday. November 11th is a sacred day when all Americans take time to thank, salute and pray for our nation's veterans. At least once a year, my wife and I take our two young sons to Walter Reed Army ...
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Published Wednesday, November 11, 2009
In many communities across America, Veterans Day will be observed, if at all, by a handful of aging men and women who will pause at cemeteries to lay flowers at the graves of those who served their nation at times of war.In an era of iPods and text m ...
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Published Sunday, November 08, 2009
By SCOTT BURNSOne of the mixed blessings of moving: Things that had become invisible become visible.Books, for instance.Titles that you haven't thought about for years, maybe even decades, suddenly present themselves. In reshelving my library, I foun ...
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Published Saturday, November 07, 2009
By DON BEAVERS
July 4, 1976, West Berlin, 110 miles behind the Iron Curtain. It is the 200th anniversary of the birth of our great country -- and we were more than 100 miles from the Free World. We were closer to Communist Poland than to free We ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
It's easy to find the big money points in fantasy football -- they're in the skill positions. Fantasy owners devote almost all of their energy on the quarterback, running back, wide receiver and tight end positions. But what about the defense and kic ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
Next year's guest pickers for The Eagle's 18-mammal Prognosticator Panel should be computer software salesmen.A couple online readers suggested family and friends of anyone working for American Traffic Solutions. But a light (not red) went off in my ...
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Published Sunday, November 01, 2009
It's a fine fall evening as I write this, and I should be at the football game. But I've been sitting here at my desk worrying.What I'm worrying about is Sully, a three-footed dog. Sully is a Great Pyrenees who's currently in the care of the Great Py ...
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Published Friday, October 30, 2009
It's nice to have home builders on The Eagle's 18-mammal Prognosticator Panel for our annual Halloween edition. It might take all eight of them combining their resources and knowledge to build something grand enough that will house our egos.We're gre ...
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Published Sunday, October 25, 2009
Two weeks ago in this space we announced the first Brazos Bottom Pumpkinpalooza, an opportunity for our readers to be creative and play with knives at the very same time.In that column, I proclaimed that we would announce the names of our winners tod ...
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Published Sunday, October 25, 2009
Dallas Morning NewsIt has been said that people vote with their feet. They pick up and go to where the jobs and opportunities are.The hard part is that it costs more -- a lot more -- to move to where the jobs and opportunities are than to move to whe ...
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Published Wednesday, October 21, 2009
As a former U.S. Army combat infantry officer in Vietnam, I am concerned about the current debate and decision making process regarding troop strength in Afghanistan. I am more concerned about the discussion regarding whether we should stay or leave ...
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Published Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Safe Harbour is a gem of a program in the Brazos Valley and this week there is an opportunity to support it and have fun at the same time.There is no question that adults suffer in a divorce, particularly those that are acrimonious and spiteful. But ...
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Published Saturday, October 17, 2009
By LARRY RINGERThis Nov. 3, College Station will be voting on whether to keep our red-light safety program, a program I support because it is a valuable and lawful tool to keep all of us, including our students, safer. Unfortunately, some of the crit ...
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Published Saturday, October 17, 2009
By JIM MANESS
"Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1775
Red-light cameras take away constitutionally guaranteed essential libert ...
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Published Friday, October 16, 2009
Week 5 was an eye-opener for fantasy football owners. Nine players topped 25 points in standard scoring systems, yet only one or two were likely to be in many lineups. They're the kind of numbers that start waiver wire panics.Dallas wide receiver Mil ...
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Published Friday, October 16, 2009
Luckily, there's not a no-pass, no-pick rule for The Eagle's 18-mammal Prognosticator Panel.Several student-athletes throughout the Brazos Valley couldn't suit up last week for extracurricular activities because they failed a class.That's OK -- if 70 ...
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Published Sunday, October 11, 2009
Send the kids out of the room, Bubba, and get out your pocketknife. You're about to get a chance to carve your name in history.The first Brazos Bottom Pumpkinpalooza is upon us. It's time to see how creative you can be while playing with a sharp obje ...
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Published Sunday, October 11, 2009
"So, this must be what an intervention is like." That's what I thought as I went around the house with the moving company representative. He was going through our house, room by room, noting this and that piece of furniture. He saw the bookshelves. H ...
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Published Saturday, October 03, 2009
I find it surprising how many people are complaining about a public option to any potential government health care plan.Even politicians who have served their states since Vietnam have remarked that the amount of hateful political rhetoric has reach ...
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Published Saturday, October 03, 2009
The last 17 years of my working life were spent as a health care manger and administrator. That includes five years with a two-hospital private health care group with its own insurance component and 12 years with Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest ...
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