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• Stop acting like sports are life and death

  I’ve followed sports for much of my 27 years on earth, but one inescapable fact has caught my attention lately - sports make people crazy. You can't get around the fact that rooting for your favorite team can enrage you and turn you into a ravenous sports junkie. Passion isn’t always a bad thing, but combined with hatred for the rival of your favorite team can turn into something ugly and disgusting.

  May 13, 2013

• A confession directly from Genoa City, Wis.

  I am a confessed hopeless addict. And, after a conversation this week, even my co-workers know the ugly truth. I rarely go an entire week without catching up on my soap opera - The Young and the Restless.

  May 4, 2013

• Quite simply less is more

  Money can’t buy happiness, or at least that’s what you have been told. In Major League Baseball there has been a hot debate on when and how much should a team spend to improve the team on the field.

  April 26, 2013

• Daviess County talent runs deep

  Oakland City University head men’s basketball coach Dr. Mike Sandifar has a long and successful career.
  He has a combined high school and college mark of 631-383 and is 427-234 at Oakland City in a career that covers 1987-1999 and 2003-2013.

  April 25, 2013

• The thrill of the grass

  In the spring, they say a young man’s fancy turns to — baseball.

  April 20, 2013

• Jackie still a hero after all these years

  Too often in our society we put elite athletes on a pedestal so high that they are referred to as heroes and we talk about the so-called adversity they face. This, of course, is laughable on every level.

  April 19, 2013

• A lifelong love of golf

  It was an unusually cold, snowy day in April as I looked out the window at the clubhouse nearly 20 years ago.
  Winter was hanging on, and golf on that particular Monday was not going to happen.

  April 18, 2013

• All she needs is GPS, notebook

  Lately some residents may have seen an out-of-county car driving aimlessly around town in search of some destination that even the youngest kiddo could find in a matter of seconds. That car would be mine, and the driver, who on occasion has nearly turned the wrong way down one way streets would be me, Lindsay Owens. Fear not though. I have GPS and a collection of maps Columbus would have envied.

  April 13, 2013

• At home - at Last

  Today, on the Korean peninsula, missiles are pointed, troops are being amassed and political temperatures are reaching the boiling point.

  April 13, 2013

• IU still working towards sixth banner

  Monday night in Atlanta, Louisville won the school’s first National Championship since the year I was born - 1986. This accomplishment is significant to Indiana basketball fans, because the last two times the Cardinals cut down the nets (1980, 1986), the Hoosiers did it the following year. The stat, of course means nothing, other than both schools had strong programs in the 1980s.

  April 11, 2013

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