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Respond to negative comment with an invitation0
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- September 18, 2018
Butte High football coach Arie Grey has great advice for responding to negative comments on blogs, Facebook, Twitter or anywhere else on the internet. “Type out your response,” Grey once said. “Then highlight it all and delete it.” The best response to nasty comments is, for the most part, no response at all. Hardly any
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There’s no more debate, Aaron Rodgers is the best0
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- September 13, 2018
By Bill Foley Listen to sports radio when they’re talking about quarterbacks, and you will definitely hear it. Strike up a conversation at the water cooler (if anyone really does that), and you are guaranteed to hear the same thing. Aaron Rodgers is the “most talented” quarterback, someone will say. But Tom Brady is the
READ MORETrade that Beckham jersey for a Moreno or Bunney0
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- September 11, 2018
In 1980 or 1981, my older brother received a Butte Central No. 10 football jersey for his birthday. The jersey was No. 10 because my brother, at age 9 or 10, was a big fan of Don Peoples Jr., the starting quarterback for the Maroons. It was probably more because they had the same first
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Politics, religion and the National Football League0
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- September 6, 2018
By Bill Foley Remember the days when talking about politics or religion was the easiest way to start an argument? Not anymore. Talking about the National Football League has rocketed past both to become our nation’s most volatile topic. If you try to talk about your favorite team or — if you’re a geek —
READ MOREStudent sections shouldn’t be run like police states0
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- September 4, 2018
Ron Richards should have been treated like a Bulldog legend by the boys and girls in the Butte High student section when he refereed that basketball game in 1989. Richards started on the Bulldogs’ offensive and defensive lines when they won back-to-back football state titles in 1967 and 1968. He received first-team All-State recognition on
READ MOREGrandma Mary decided to get mad and go home13
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- August 28, 2018
Over the last seven decades, the Butte Civic Center has been host to some great state championship basketball games and some classic Butte High-Butte Central battles. It has hosted the Harlem Globetrotters, Johnny Cash and Butte Sports Hall of Fame induction banquets. In a few weeks, the Civic Center will host the WWE. The one
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