The Holdrege Soccer team qualified for the State Soccer Tournament this weekend in Omaha. They play at Lincoln Pius (8-4) at 5 p.m. on Friday at TanquilityPark, Omaha. The Dusters are 13-3 and beat Scottsbluff 6-3 to qualify for state. Maybe the Dusters will be rated now. By the way, Pius qualified as a wild card.
ROYALS CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE
The Royals continue to struggle after winning two games in a row. Their record is 7-21 and they are already 13 games back of the White Sox. Supporting the underdog has always been this writer's choice but this is starting to go too far. Even the lowly Cubs are 14-14. The best records in baseball are the Chicago White Sox and New York Mets with 21-9 records. Guess what? The worst plays the best again today as the Royals play at Chicago(White Sox). Mark Redman pitches for the Royals. The Royals have made a couple of roster moves as they sent down Teahen and brought Guiels to help their hitting. Joe Mays has also been asked to go to Omaha and has until today to decide. Alex Gordon had a quiet week and dropped to a .304 batting average at Wichita. He has 6 HR's and is 22nd in the league in batting average. In reviewing Wichita's pitching it doesn't look like they will provide much help for KC or even Omaha at this point of the year.
WILL FARRELL
"Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" debuts on August 4th which is easy to remember because it is my sister Barbie Junes birthday. Farrell is the star and with the combination of him and Nascar it can't help to be good. One of the highlights of this Will Farrell NASCAR comedy involves a scene in which the car is driven backward. Thinking that actually doing this might be unsafe, the production team built a car that had its body turned backward. The driver, who was lying down on the passenger side, drove around the track peering through the taillight. Huh!
"JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE"
Another comedy that opens July 28th. The actors in this film have names like Jesse (Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti Douglas, and Sophia Bush. But comedy director Betty Thomas rarely used their given names, opting instead for nicknames like "Poopie", "Bippy", and "Boopie". Typical on-set instructions according to "USA Weekend" from the director might sound like, "OK, Bippy, put the jippy japing on the bippy!". Somehow the cast figured out what to do.
BESTSELLERS
Hardcover-Fiction
1. "Two Little Girls in Blue" by Mary Higgins Clark
2. "Blue Shoes and Happiness" by Alexander McCall Smith
3. "Oakdale Confidential" by Anonymous
Hardcover-Nonfiction/General
1. "Marley and Me" by John Grogan
2. "Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings" by Tyler Perry
3. "Giada's Family Dinners" by Giada De Laurentis
Trade Paperbacks
1. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown
2. "Rachael Ray:Express Lane Meals" by Rachael Ray
3. " In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote.
This writer read the book "In Cold Blood" when I was app. 15 years old. It has resurfaced after the movie "Capote" came out.
60 MINUTES
John Daly will on 60 Minutes tonight to discuss his new book "John Daly: My Life In and Out of the Rough". Do you suppose the $50-60 million losses from gambling come up?
VOTE JANET BOEHLER!!!!!!
Vote Tuesday for Janet Boehler for Phelps County Clerk. She is the best person because she is the most qualified and experienced for the job. This writer believes also she has best leadership qualities. She has been active in Loomis and Holdrege in community service.
BEST HIGH SCHOOL GOLFER IN NEBRASKA
John Hurley may be the best high school golfer in Nebraska for the last several year. He hits a long ball. Last year in the state men's amateur he drove the first hole at the Omaha Country Club. This hole is 372 yards!!!!!!!!!! This was major concern when John broke his wrist in basketball this past year. Having breakfast with his father, Jack, a couple of weeks ago, he felt that John may be stronger than ever. Due to working with weights due to the injury, John may better than ever too. By the way, Jack likes his breakfast as much as somebody else I know. John is 6'4" and plans to attend Texas A & M next year.
MISCHA BARTON
Mischa Barton is a star on "The O.C." on the Fox Network. This series is on Thursday nights. This year she has a new movie coming out. It is "Decameron: Angels & Virgins".
To view her photo gallery and to see the link to "The O.C." website, click here.
HAROLD W. ANDERSON COLUMN
Doggonit
The writer reads this column twice every week. I don't always agree with him but he without a doubt instills thought. Today his column discussed speeches. One of the best speeches ever done has went unnoticed by many. This moving speech was delivered by George Graham Vest of Sweet Springs, Mo. Vest was later a U.S. Senator. Vest did this speech when,on behalf of his client, he sued his neighbor who had killed his dog.
"The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose.....The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads.
"The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.......He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in an encounter with the roughness of the world; He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains.......
"If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him.....And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master....there by the graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death."
Go get a kleenix.
2 comments:
John, Kinda long.... liked the sports info, movie info, and Vote for Janet Boehler. Sorry. -Brad
What are you sorry about?
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