A Good Year for the Outlaw

Peoria is losing a high school – eventually, and from all appearances, about five years too late, but that’s not important now – and the loss of one of the four public schools should and probably will cause a re-alignment of conferences.
This would be my plan:
Richwoods, Manual, Quincy Notre Dame and the new Woodruff [...]

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While wishing winter was over the past few days, it got me to thinking about things that actually ARE already over. A partial list ensues…
1. NASCAR. After building and building popularity throughout the 70’s and 80’s that resulted in unprecedented interest in this once-great, once-exciting sport, NASCAR is over. And they have only themselves to [...]

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Should be over.

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Three weeks ago, if you’d ask this casual observer of the NFL if it would be cool for the Arizona Cardinals to make the Super Bowl, I’d have said, “sure, why not, good for them”. But then I remembered: Kurt Warner is their quarterback now.
As I sit here watching the last ditch effort by [...]

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Hmm. Gas has jumped anywhere from 20-30 cents in the last week or two, but I see no reason for it.
Just because it isn’t four bucks a gallon doesn’t mean they still aren’t ripping us off.
Oh, and when did the “normal” price jump become 10 cents per gallon? What happened to a couple [...]

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It’s looking more and more like Al Franken will be the next Senator from Minnesota, as he’s taken a 225 vote lead after the exhausting recount up there.
225 votes out of more than 2.5 million cast. Wow. Some (most) people would call that really close, razor thin, a hairsbreadth margin.
Dick Cheney? He’d call it [...]

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