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The ‘root of all evil’ can solve official shortage0
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- August 21, 2018
We are in the middle of a nationwide shortage of high school sports officials. It is a major problem in Montana as the football season starts this week. The Butte football officiating pool, for instance, will need as many as 35 officials on some Friday nights in the not-so-distant future. As of last week, the
READ MOREDepression is a beast not easily conquered4
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- August 14, 2018
Lagoon is my family’s happy place. Since 1886, Lagoon has been an amusement park in Farmington, Utah, just north of Salt Lake City. For my money, it beats the heck out of Disney Land, and that isn’t just because I can’t afford to take my family of five to Anaheim. Two weeks ago, we made
READ MORESay it ain’t so, Joe1
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- August 7, 2018
Wheneve he didn’t have a good comeback — which was usually — my friend Joe Nowakowski would feign anger and say, “Your face.” Sometimes in text messages, Joe would shorten it to just “Face.” I loved seeing that message or hearing those words because I knew I had just won our latest exchange. Joe almost
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It is time to put an end to this war on summer0
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- July 31, 2018
The calendar read July 17 when I ran into Montana Tech volleyball coach Brian Solomon at Father Sheehan Park. The city tennis tournament was in full swing, as was the Mile High Little League season-ending picnic. It was a beautiful early evening, and the air was filled with the sounds of summer. Children played on
READ MOREKasey Morley’s touchdown was a run for the ages0
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- July 24, 2018
The West Side players and coaches for the 72nd Montana East-West Shrine Game thought they were going to give Kasey Morley a memory to last a lifetime. As it turns out, it was the other way around. Last Thursday night at Montana Tech’s Alumni Coliseum, Kasey stole their hearts with a touchdown run for the
READ MORENo-crying-in-baseball rule easier said than done1
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- July 17, 2018
In my 44 years and change on this planet, I have learned two truths. The first is that you cannot, under any circumstance, triple stamp a double stamp. The second is that there is no crying in baseball. Actually, no crying in baseball has to be No. 1. Jimmy Dugan told us that in the
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