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I'm a professor of journalism at Wingate University near Charlotte, N.C. I've also written about sports for newspapers and other publications for more than 30 years. This blog's mostly about journalism, especially sports media. But it could also be about whatever's interesting to me today. You never know.Categories
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Tag Archives: high school football
A remembrance of kickoffs past: Thanksgiving, football and — Proust?
The early 20th century French writer Marcel Proust, so literary legend goes, was inspired to write his monumental novel A Remembrance of Things Past, after eating a madeleine (a sweet cookie, now available at Starbuck’s, but not in his time) … Continue reading
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Tagged high school football, involuntary memory, Marcel Proust, Myrtle Beach, Pittsburgh, Texas
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The mighty fall and the meek rise up
“I’m growing older, but not up,” Jimmy Buffett, the Bard of the tropics, once sang. And every Friday night in the fall I can relate very strongly to that. I hope I never outgrow the enjoyment I get out of … Continue reading
The Old Perfessor 