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Wednesday, surviving the cold, how about Surviving “Paradise”?

Well, it is Wednesday, that day when I plug my book, Surviving “Paradise” by Susan Willoch Shaver.  Unless you are in southern California, perhaps parts of Florida (?), you are probably like me, wandering when will spring ever arrive?  It … Continue reading

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Duke loses longtime assistant coach

Chris Collins, longtime assistant coach at Duke with Coach K is leaving to take the head coaching job at Northwestern.  Chris is the one you always see doing the interview at the half, as Coach K heads straight to the … Continue reading

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Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Watched a very interesting movie, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which starred a number of Oscar nominated actors as well as Oscar winners from years past.  The movie is about a group of elderly British people who relocate to a hotel … Continue reading

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Florida Gulf Coast College – Coach has a supermodel wife…

Florida Gulf Coast College, the Cinderella team in this year’s NCAA Basketball Tourney is the school no one had heard of a week ago.  Not too long ago, it was essentially an “online” school.  Now, it is “Phi Slamma Jamma” … Continue reading

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Robin Roberts – Profile in Courage

Robin Roberts will receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2013 ESPY Awards this summer (July 17, 2013).  Robin is a breast cancer survivor and most recently has gone through a bone marrow transplant to combat a rare blood … Continue reading

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Tiger Woods – #1 in the world again!

It isn’t Sunday, it is Monday, but Tiger Woods wearing Sunday red has won the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill for the 8th time and is once again, the #1 ranked golfer in the world.  Tiger claims the number … Continue reading

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And then there were Sixteen!

Three more teams punched their tickets into the Sweet Sixteen last evening.  2 Miami got by 7 Illinois in a close one, 63 – 59.  13 LaSalle edged 12 Ole Miss in another close game, 76 – 74 and 2 … Continue reading

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And then there were Sixteen!

Three more teams punched their tickets into the Sweet Sixteen last evening.  2 Miami got by 7 Illinois in a close one, 63 – 59.  13 LaSalle edged 12 Ole Miss in another close game, 76 – 74 and 2 … Continue reading

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Follow the yellow brick road…1Kansas advances

Follow the yellow brick road…after a very slow start, 1 Kansas rebounds to advance over 6 North Carolina, 70 – 58.  They head to the Sweet Sixteen where they will meet 4 Michigan (I have them going out in that … Continue reading

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Follow the yellow brick road…1Kansas advances

Follow the yellow brick road…after a very slow start, 1 Kansas rebounds to advance over 6 North Carolina, 70 – 58.  They head to the Sweet Sixteen where they will meet 4 Michigan (I have them going out in that … Continue reading

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