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Southern Byways

Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category

September 6th, 2008

Tales from the Road: It’s Game Day, Ya’ll

My travels for this weekend have taken me home, well, my surrogate home of five years (yes, I was on the five-year plan), Tuscaloosa, Ala. Now, any Southerner worth their salt knows what happens on Saturdays in the fall in this region.
Football. More importantly, college football.
It’s a written rule not to plan anything of importance […]

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June 30th, 2008

Batter Up! Minor League Baseball in the South

The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, and the smell of peanuts and hot dogs wafting through the stands on a warm night represents summer for many. Yes, it’s time for baseball, Crackerjacks and all of that good stuff. Here in the South, you are never at a lost for watching […]

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August 31st, 2007

Some Of Us Know More Than Others

I know that there are lots of Footballers out there, the American version as well as the European version. Actually, it’s the European football  aka soccer that is popular in our house thanks to a husband who use to play, but this month’s theme for me was digging up what I could find on […]

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August 23rd, 2007

Ice Skating in Florida

When we were in California a couple of months ago, I shopped at a mall that actually had an ice rink as one of the attractions. To be quite honest, I never expected to find people taking a break from their shopping to pull on a pair of skates… but it happened. My daughter and […]

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