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The funniest thing I have ever seen at any athletic event.  Galax at Grayson in 2011.  Final regular season game of the year and both teams were undefeated.  During the first half, Grayson students went through the estimated 8,000 fans selling half and half tickets.  Everyone on the Galax side was sold red tickets and everyone on the Grayson side was sold green tickets.  The PA announcer for Grayson, Jackie Phipps, made sure to remind the Grayson faithful NOT to purchase any red tickets.  He made this announcement every 5 minutes for the entire first half. 
 
Only green tickets were used for the halftime drawing.  It was classic and adds fuel to an already heated fire between county and city residents locally.
 
Jackie is famous for saying the same two lines the whole game, every game in his high pitched, nasally whine.

So long as Ridgeview does not have Clintwoods PA anouncer LOL
 
Some of my faverir head slap moments from him were as follows
 
5) Mispronouncing all three of the Daily kids names every game of every year they were in HS
 
4) While anounceing the starting line up for Appy (think it was Appy) gives the name and position of all the Clintwood players
 
3) Repedadly calling the Volenteer Falcons the Volenteer Volenteers
 
2) After a play resulting in a lose of yards anounceing a nice gain
 
1) Smokeing while informing the public that there is no smokeing allowed inside the stadiem while smokeing LOL

I believe that Carson is so hyper-intelligent that he comes off as hesitant and unpolished when he's simply working to "dumb down" what he says to reach his audience.
 
I can't wait for the black commumity to start ramping up the "Uncle Tom" comments en masse.

You are referring to UVA-Wise facility and not Centrals new football facility arent you?

Liberalism is the height of hypocrisy.
 
Request tolerance, yet viciously stamp out any ideas that run counter to tolerance. Put women's rights on a pedestal by murdering 700,000 babies per year. Care more about the animals and the trees than the people who are the stewards over them. Provide welfare for the poor by keeping them beholden to the government teat. Respond to shootings by blaming the weapon and not the person or class of people firing it.
 
Liberalism is a disease of intellect, and I for one value myself too greatly to be subjected to the horror of legitimately believing in it.

So you mean American liberals are getting all worked up over something that is none of their business and isn't significant anyway?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
 
Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me.
 
So sorry about Cecil.
 
Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe?
 
Cecil who? I wondered. When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by an American dentist, the village boy inside me instinctively cheered: One lion fewer to menace families like mine.
 
My excitement was doused when I realized that the lion killer was being painted as the villain. I faced the starkest cultural contradiction I’d experienced during my five years studying in the United States.
 
Did all those Americans signing petitions understand that lions actually kill people?  That all the talk about Cecil being “beloved†or a “local favorite†was media hype? Did Jimmy Kimmel choke up because Cecil was murdered or because he confused him with Simba from “The Lion Kingâ€?
 
In my village in Zimbabwe, surrounded by wildlife conservation areas, no lion has ever been beloved, or granted an affectionate nickname.  They are objects of terror.
 
When I was 9 years old, a solitary lion prowled villages near my home.  After it killed a few chickens, some goats and finally a cow, we were warned to walk to school in groups and stop playing outside.  My sisters no longer went alone to the river to collect water or wash dishes; my mother waited for my father and older brothers, armed with machetes, axes and spears, to escort her into the bush to collect firewood.
 
A week later, my mother gathered me with nine of my siblings to explain that her uncle had been attacked but escaped with nothing more than an injured leg.  The lion sucked the life out of the village: No one socialized by fires at night; no one dared stroll over to a neighbor’s homestead.
 
When the lion was finally killed, no one cared whether its murderer was a local person or a white trophy hunter, whether it was poached or killed legally. We danced and sang about the vanquishing of the fearsome beast and our escape from serious harm.
 
Recently, a 14-year-old boy in a village not far from mine wasn’t so lucky.  Sleeping in his family’s fields, as villagers do to protect crops from the hippos, buffalo and elephants that trample them, he was mauled by a lion and died.
 
The killing of Cecil hasn’t garnered much more sympathy from urban Zimbabweans, although they live with no such danger.  Few have ever seen a lion, since game drives are a luxury residents of a country with an average monthly income below $150 cannot afford.
 
Don’t misunderstand me: For Zimbabweans, wild animals have near-mystical significance. We belong to clans, and each clan claims an animal totem as its mythological ancestor.  Mine is Nzou, elephant, and by tradition, I can’t eat elephant meat; it would be akin to eating a relative’s flesh.  But our respect for these animals has never kept us from hunting them or allowing them to be hunted. (I’m familiar with dangerous animals; I lost my right leg to a snakebite when I was 11.)
 
The American tendency to romanticize animals that have been given actual names and to jump onto a hashtag train has turned an ordinary situation — there were 800 lions legally killed over a decade by well-heeled foreigners who shelled out serious money to prove their prowess — into what seems to my Zimbabwean eyes an absurdist circus.
 
PETA is calling for the hunter to be hanged.  Zimbabwean politicians are accusing the United States of staging Cecil’s killing as a “ploy†to make our country look bad.  And Americans who can’t find Zimbabwe on a map are applauding the nation’s demand for the extradition of the dentist, unaware that a baby elephant was reportedly slaughtered for our president’s most recent birthday banquet.
 
We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people.
 
Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.
 
And please, don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed or left hungry by his brethren, by political violence, or by hunger.

I still think its hilarious how Cecil Roberts and the Unions are crying about losing their jobs and how unfair the federal government is being.  A ton of these union guys supported Obama in 2008 and Richard Trumpka was standing beside that POS on the campaign trail even after he told the S.F. Chronical that he was going to bankrupt the coal fired power plants.  Hell, the process was already rolling against them in 2012 and they still DID NOT support Mitt Romney who said he would come to their aid.  It just dumbfounds me they could be that stupid.
 
And the training programs the federal government talks about to re-train these out of work miners, what are they going to re-train them to do??  Answer phones at a call center that doesn't exist?

I'd seriously like to kick that bitch right in the nuts...

If Richlands ever won an AAU national title, it would be news to me. I researched it, and AAU certainly doesnt seem to agree.
 
The writing in that piece is sophomoric. I counted the same number of syntax errors. And it's written in a style unflattering to Phillips, making him out to be a braggodocio.
 
What kills it for me is the overuse of commas. It makes the piece choppy and almost unreadable. Commas are used to create the natural break in separation of thoughts or listing, like that one was. And despite his choking overuse of commas, he doesn't use an Oxford comma when he should. That frustrates me so deeply I cannot state it.

....and she is still a better candidate than Donald Trump!  
 
Doesn't speak highly of our current political landscape at the highest levels, huh?

So, I was walking through the mall and saw that there was a "Muslim Book Store. "I was wondering what exactly was in a Muslim bookstore so I went in. As I was wandering around taking a look, the clerk stopped me and asked if he could help me. I imagine I didn't look like his normal clientele, so I asked, "Do you have a copy of the U.S. Immigration Policy Book regarding Muslims?"

The clerk said, "F8#k off, get out and stay out!!

I said, "Yes, that's the one. Do you have it in paperback?

Unless there is just some longstanding tradition, I am a fan of every coach putting his/her own stamp on things (logo or helmet change), but not changing school colors etc.

Unless there is just some longstanding tradition, I am a fan of every coach putting his/her own stamp on things (logo or helmet change), but not changing school colors etc.

I'm frankly surprised it's not exponentially worse than it actually is. And I'm doubly surprised that there's not been an HIV outbreak, too.
 
I've seen things in the last 3 years that cannot be unseen.

This is the year that I have been both looking forward to and dreading. I coached/watched/cheered on so many of these kids through their high school sporting endeavors. I wish all the seniors the greatest of futures and offer the parents a prayer of peace. Congratulations seniors....may God be with you where ever you go.

Coming home to share my NBA D-League and overseas experience/knowledge with the kids. I am hoping to motivate 1 kid to want more, get serious, obtain their dreams. I got close to the NBA and want soneone from the area to use me as motivation to know its possible and actually achieve that or WNBA for girls.
The camp is June 25-27 @ Tazewell Middle School for boys and girls ages 11-18.
Will be providing t-shirts, food and drinks, so register early for accurate count. Deadline is June 10th
Register online by clicking here: http://www.123contactform.com/form-1417200/Omar-Reeds-Basketball-Camp-Registration
 

This was a real slobber knocker.

95% of the time its not the kids its the parents behind them.

This is high school. Not D-I. Not the NFL. This is high school football, played by minor children.
 
I don't understand kids today.

SERVICE...
 
 
I became confused when I heard the word "Service" used with these agencies:
1,   Internal Revenue "Service". 

2,    U.S. Postal "Service". 

3,   Telephone "Service". 

4,   Cable T.V. "Service". 

5,   Civil "Service". 

6 ,   State, City, County & Public "Service". 

7,   Customer "Service". 

This is not what I thought "Service" meant. 
 
But today, I overheard two 2 farmers talking, and one of them said he had hired a bull to " Service"  a few cows.  BAM!!! It all came into focus.
 
"Now I understand what all those agencies are doing". 
 
I hope that YOU are now just as enlightened as I am.

After 24 1/2 years in the US Air Force, I am retiring and leaving Germany after 5+ years. It's been quite the adventure and I've been to 60+ countries; however, I'm glad it's coming to an end. Military life is demanding and definitely not for everyone. My family and I will be retiring to Canton, GA, where I will be teaching Aerospace Science and Leadership Principles at Cherokee High School. It's going to be great and I look forward to being back in the prime for high school athletics. Hope to get home to see some Honaker games as well.

I enjoyed it and knew very little about Hillsborough before it as I am a casual soccer fan who will watch some EPL but mainly national events.  I went back and watched other documentaries about it on YouTube and read articles about it as well.  What a mess of a way things were handled at that time there.

I can understand kids wanting to be on a winning team. Everyone loves a winner. What I don't understand is a parent trying so hard to get a kid in a winning program thinking they are going to better themselves. I agree with you, if you have talent, you have talent and a college coach will recognize it. Parents should work on exposing their kids to those coaches more and worry less about them being on a star program in high school
 
In the end, pride and loyalty will mean a lot more than winning a few high school games.

Not trying to knock any school but I just dont get players transferring, I really dont.
 
When I was in middle school the thing that meant the most to me wasnt playing at Ervinton so that I could start both ways as a freshmen or playing at  Grundy for some really good teams that had the potential to make long runs, I wanted to play at Haysi, to wear that red and be a tiger. Thats where my friends were and thats who I wanted to play with, my teammates.
 
If you have a lot of talent and have potential to play at the next level and the coaching at your current school is poor then I guess I can understand transferring to a high profile program but for the average player I just dont get it.
 
 
(steps off soapbox)