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Page 12, The Estill County Tribune, January 28, 2015
Bob Watkins Ernie Banks died theother day and it made methink of another Mr. Cub.LeonSingleton. Lives in McCrearyCounty these days, Leon.Heand the restofuswhotooktodustybaseballfieldsonthehotJulydaysofouryouth, celebrate that Mr.Cubcameourway. Inmycase,bothof‘em. Fare-thee-well, MisterCub. Ernie Banks’s bodywas 83. But between hisears he was 15, maybe.Eversmiling,evergratefulforlife.AlongwithsmilingLeon Singleton and oth-ers who owned his base-ballcard,hegaveussunnywords as timeless as thebest Yogi Berra-ism. Let’s play two. And,wedidplaytwo. Mr.Cubwasresponsibleforotherwisdomsthatsep-arate those who embracelife sweetly no matter cir-cumstance,fromthosewhopursue it through branglesandbriarsofdollars. In his book, Ernie Banks: Mr. Cub and the Summer of ‘69,authorPhilRogers wrote of No. 14whose smile seemed for-ever... √ “I tried to sign everykid’sautograph.Becauseinmymind,IthoughtthatonedayImighthavetoaskthiskidforajob. √“Mydadusedtotakemetothecottonfields,tellmetopickcotton.Ittaughtmehowtousemyhands.I
wouldgrab.WhenIstartedto play baseball I just hadthe natural quick hands.That was my extra advan-tage, my slight edge overanybody else. I had quickhands. I could wait to thelastminuteandhittheball.Nobody could understandit. But I had those quickhands, which I developedbypickingcotton. √“ErnieBanksgrewupin Dallas, Rogers wrote,and told me once he washavingsomuchfunridingbuseswiththeKansasCityMonarchs that he wasn’thappy when owner TomBairdsoldhimandpitcherBill Dickey to the Cubsfor $20,000 in September,1953.” √“Mylifeis9likeamir-acle.” Ernie Banks. Baseballfans are grateful he cameourway. And, Leon Singleton’swaytoo.
UK GLORY ROAD For basketball fans inKentucky, a calendar’sturntoFebruaryis thebit-tersweet.The sweet is ob-vious: Brag rights, recordwithoutblemish,theteam’splaceatpinnacleofHoopsWorld. Traditionalists ana-lyze the games painstak-ingly – assists, fast-breakpoints, and new favorite,blockedshots. February, here comesthe bitter. Attachment tofavorite players countingdown to June.A growing,if unspoken dread for therecently institutionalizedpart of Kentucky basket-ball, get-me-to-the-NBA.In two months, too manyfavorites will be gone toosoon.Amongthemperhaps,SECfreshmanplayeroftheweekforlastthreeinarow,DevinBooker. The new generationof Wildcat fans are (JohnCalipari)re-programmedto“next!” Therestofuswillcher-ishthosewhosavoredtime
ontheGlory Road insteadof perilous pursuit aftergoldattheendofit.
BURROW HONOR OVERDUE
Bob Burrow, two-timeAll-American at Kentucky(1955 and 1956) will behonoredatthisyear’sSECTournamentatBridgestoneArena in Nashville March11-15asaConferenceBas-ketballLegend. Sixtyyearson,thishon-orforBurrowandfamilyisshamefully overdue. Uni-versity of Kentucky ath-letic officials in rapture ofgoings-on in Calipari era,ought pay better attentiontotheprogram’srichpast.WESTERN ROLLS
WesternKentucky’s7-0start in C-USA is the bestconferencestartsince1969-70 when the Jim McDan-iels-led Hilltoppers wereonwayto14-0intheOhioValleyConference. SeveretestsfortheTopsthisweekwithleagueroadgames at Louisiana TechThursday and SouthernMissSaturday. What-to-Watch Dept.Ben Lawson at WesternKentucky.Havingseenthematuration of Nazr Mo-hammed at Kentucky andFelton Spencer at Louis-ville fromwalk-and-chew-gum-at-same-timetoNBA-worthy,Lawson’sadvancesareremarkable. TheganglyBritisastudyinteamguylearn-grow-ad-vance. In twin wins last weekLawson’s carefully man-aged minutes produced 11points, 10 rebounds andnineblockedshots. NativeofHitchin,southof Cambridge, England,Lawson has much to do– time at the dinner tableand in weight room. Buthis minutes, timing andcircumstance coach RayHarperandstaffchoose touse their 7-0 sophomore,makesanintriguingchapter
inaspecialstory.LOUISVILLE
RickPitinodidlastweekoneof the thingshehas areputationfordoingsoart-fully,spin. His team’s 15-3 re-cord(atthetime)isanac-complishment Da Coachrates somewhere betweenHoudiniandaspacewalk.In fact, along with grow-ingabearditwassmoketotake away from MontrezlHarrell’srevokedteamcap-taincy and home losses toKentucky and Duke sand-wiched around a stinginggive-away at North Caro-lina. TheCardinalsarestillateamnobodywantstoplayand are back in groove intime for North Carolinathen roadgamesatMiamiandNo.2Virginia.
KRZYZEWSKI 1,000 coaching wins.Mike Krzyzewski, withacknowledgement to play-ers past and mentor BobKnight, demonstratedagainwhyheisamongtheeliteeverincollegehoops.ESPN allotted good facetimeforthecoach’swifeaswell. Hoops Mount Rush-more: Adolph Rupp, JohnWooden, Bob Knight andCoachK.
PARTING SHOT ESPNbasketballanalystDanDakichdrewtheireofIowa coach Fran McCaf-freylastweekafterDakichblisteredIowacenterAdamWoodbury for poking fin-gers into the eyes of twoWisconsinplayers. Seeing a replay, Wood-buryshouldbedisciplined,andMcCaffrey shoulduseitasateachingmomentin-stead of berating a teeveeguy. Andsoitgoes. [email protected]
Bob Watkins’ Sports In KentuckyFrom Leon and rest of us, fare-thee-well Mr. Cub; UK continues on the Glory Road
Sports News______________________________________________Friday, February 6th______________________________________________1983 Lady Engineers To Be Honored EstillCountyHighSchoolwillcontinuetohonorath-letesfrompastyearswithrecognitionofthe1983EstillCountyLadyEngineersdistrictwinnersattheLee-EstilldoubleheaderonFriday,February6,2015. Membersoftheteamarerequestedtobethereandfansareencouraged tocomeoutandsupport theseathletesand tocheeron theEstillCountyEngineers andLadyEngineers.______________________________________________Fri. & Sat., Feb. 6 & 7 and 13 & 14______________________________________________Youth Soccer Signups TheEstillCountyYouthSoccerLeaguewillbehold-ingsignupsonFriday&Saturday,February6th&7thandagainonFriday&Saturday,February13th&14thatHardeesRestaurantonRichmondRoadinIrvine. SigneesmusthavebeenbornonorbetweenAugust1,2002andJuly31,2010.
Kruzers NewzKruzers Newz TwinCityKruzers’nextmonthlymeetingonMon-day, February 2ndat7:00p.m.inIrvineCityHall.AnyoneinterestedinjoiningTwinCityCruizersneedstocometothemeetings. WewerebuyastourJanuarymeeting,planningcarshows,carcruisesandcruise-ins.Wearelook-ingforwardto2015.Alleventsarefreeandopentoanyone. There will be music, raffles, corn hole and doorprizes.BringyourfamilyandenjoythebeautifulvehiclesindowntownIrvine.DateswillbeannouncedinMarch. Anyoneinterestedinjoining,needstocometoourmeetingorcallpresidentKennethTiptonat723-7554orvice-presidentDarrellHallat723-3612.
Iwant topreface thiswiththereasonIgettowanderthewoodsandwaterfreelyisbe-causeofthemenandwomenbehind theguns.Theprefaceis for anyone who wants tosendanastyemaillettingmeknowthiscolumnisnotaboutthewoodsandwater.IfanyonewantstosendanemaillettingmeknowIhaveanangerissuewell I do when anyone talksbadaboutthoseprotectingmyFreedom! SotheHollywoodfolksand
leftists are up in arms overAmerican Sniper. A movieabout a true hero who in noway was coward. MichaelMoore, a pudgy little fellowwho makes worthless mov-ies, called snipers cowards.I would love to see Moore’sbraveryandgobareknuckleswith a close friend of minewhoisaretiredArmyRanger! It really upset me when Iheard all the things that thelikes of Moore, Seth Rogan,AlecBaldwinandotherssaid
Wanderingsfrom the
Woods& Waterby Jay
Hollywood Critics
about snipers. I personallyknow two retired snipers.Theybothwerewoundedincombat.There iszerocow-ardinthosetwoguys.Theyboth had been woundedmultiple times and whentheyhealedup,back to thefrontlinestheywenttofightIslamicterrorists.YesIslam-ic Muslim terrorists. That’ssomethingPresidentObamawillneversay. One of my sniper bud-dieslostasoninIraq.Thenhe was shot by an IslamicMuslim terrorist while try-ingtogetpositiononIslamicMuslim terrorists that wereshooting up American sol-diers.The shot flipped himoff of a building breakinghisbackandhand.Hegotupandstayedinthefight!Cow-ard...Ithinknot! My other sniper buddywasinaHum-Vwhenaguywalkinginfrontofhimgotshot by an Islamic Muslimterrorist. He jumped out tohelpandRPGgroundedoutathisfeetblowingupbreak-ingbothofhisankles.Thenan Islamic Muslim terror-istshothimintheback.Hejumped up, ankles broke,andtriedtohelpthesoldierwhohadbeenshotandkilledbyanIslamicMuslimterror-ist.Coward,Ithinknot. Everysoldierisaherotomy family and I. It takes aHerotoserveinthemilitarythesedaysduetothisadmin-istration’s rules of engage-ment.A soldier serving to-dayhastojustaboutgetshotbeforetheycanreturnfire,orbecourtmarshalled.Iaminfavorofturningthemilitaryloose and let them do theirjobeffectivelytakingoutIs-lamicMuslimterrorists. IhavefoundaflawintheHollywoodliberal leftistar-
gument. They will call oursoldiersmurderersandcow-ards. They called Vietnamvets,babykillers.Thenthesesame people will applaudthekillingoftheunbornviaabortion. Attheendofthedayit’sthemenandwomenbehindthegunswhogivetheHol-lywoodfolkstherighttosaywhattheydo.Theyalsogivemetherighttowriteandsaywhat’s on my mind. I amgoing to exercise my rightnottowatchanymoviestheHollywood liberal leftistsmake.Ihopeyouwillnotaswell. IhavegoneonarantwhichIwillnotapologizefor.Iwillalwaysdefendthosesacrific-ingtodefendmyFreedoms.My Freedom to serve Je-sus! My Freedom to hunt!My Freedom to write! Allmy Freedoms, only foundin America and protectedby the American Soldier!ThankGodforourMilitary!Myprayersgoout toalloftheUnitedStatessoldiers.AspecialprayergoesouttoalltheAmericanSnipers! Until next week, get outandenjoyGod’screation!
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Sports News______________________________________________Friday, February 6th______________________________________________1983 Lady Engineers To Be Honored EstillCountyHighSchoolwillcontinuetohonorath-letesfrompastyearswithrecognitionofthe1983EstillCountyLadyEngineersdistrictwinnersattheLee-EstilldoubleheaderonFriday,February6,2015. Membersoftheteamarerequestedtobethereandfansareencouraged tocomeoutandsupport theseathletesand tocheeron theEstillCountyEngineers andLadyEngineers.______________________________________________Fri. & Sat., Feb. 6 & 7 and 13 & 14______________________________________________Youth Soccer Signups TheEstillCountyYouthSoccerLeaguewillbehold-ingsignupsonFriday&Saturday,February6th&7thandagainonFriday&Saturday,February13th&14thatHardeesRestaurantonRichmondRoadinIrvine. SigneesmusthavebeenbornonorbetweenAugust1,2002andJuly31,2010.
