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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
For a $5 donation to the cause you can park at Furniture Connection located at 5732 High Point Road.
Included is a half mile brisk walk down Suttonwood Road to the course.
I'm diversifying.
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
How often do you hear porta-potties mentioned at city council meetings? Thanks to Keith Brown for the clip.
You may think it's an amusing topic...unless you were one of the more than 12,000 people in town last weekend for the 2010 Wrangler/McDonald's Youth Soccer Classic that had to pee.
An 8 AM ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Who wants this one of a kind framed remembrance of Mark McGwire breaking baseball's home run record? Click on the photo to view a larger version.
It's a 25x35 framed (value of frame est. $400) memory that includes the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from Sept. 8th, 1998. ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Recently the Furniture Connection Men's Softball team won the ASA State Championship held in Marion, NC.
Recently meaning two decades ago.
I can still remember the line drive to our shortstop, Glenn Brooks, that ended the championship game. We peaked at the right time and beat teams that had hammered us all ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Hard to explain but having Greensboro's golf tournament just felt right being at Sedgefield. Kinda like smelling hot dogs at the baseball stadium. Plus I like being able to walk to the tournament.
I ran into Rudy Binder and John Hammer at the seventh tee and as soon as I took ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
I'm saying it before the first play of the season. The Panthers need a new head coach.
Besides coaching the under achievers of the century he should have been fired on the spot when he took responsibility for the most boneheaded play in the history of the NFL (including back yard ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
According to the AP Hank Steinbrenner is considering adding Barry Bonds to the Yankees roster.
As a huge Boston Red Sox fan I find it very disappointing they didn't get him signed before today's start of a three game series at Fenway.
I'd love to see the Fenway faithful welcome Barry to ...
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