Month: April 2012
There's Bad, There's Awful, And Then There's Evil
The genesis of this week's By the Numbers column came when I was marveling at the fact that Willie Bloomquist has been in the major leagues for 11 years and […]
Aldridge Reflects On Move From Prairie To Clark
On his second attempt, Al Aldridge whittled his reasons for leaving Prairie High School to one word. "Refreshing . . . revitalizing, that's the word I'm looking for," Aldridge said Wednesday […]
Check and Mate for Webster
Here's my favorite sports story from this week: College coach wins national title, then announces that she's taking another job and taking her team with her. She's a chess coach. Texas […]
Pac-12 and Big Ten Really, Really Love the Rose Bowl
The Pac-12 and the Big Ten are holding a college football playoff hostage, which led to this Talking Point for Saturday's paper: The latest math-challenged proposal from the BCS involves three […]
Top-notch Headline
In case you missed it, here was the headline in Tuesday's Columbian following Kentucky's title: "Won and Done." That one came courtesy of copy editor Jeff Klein, the hardest working man […]