If you’ve read this blog, you know “The Wonder Years” is a common thread. For many of the folks in my generation, it is a masterpiece that captures growing up in the 1970s and 1980s perfectly. I’m reminded of another great episode this week as I think of a former classmate, Michael Alan Butler. Michael, […]
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By Ernie W. Webb III ALLEN – As good as Burlingame has been over the past decade, the coaching staff still constantly looks for ways to improve. Coming into the 2024 season, the focus was on getting stronger, faster and more physical. The work that entailed paid off immediately during Friday’s season-opener, as Burlingame (1-0)
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“No C’s, babe.” They were three little words written on the Christmas card from my father in 1991. He also wrote that he was proud of me and grateful to be my dad. But the last line, underlined several times, was glaring: “No C’s, babe.” By 1991, my sophomore year of high school, my brother
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I hadn’t spoken to Shawn Boner in 20 years, unless you count the occasional comment in a Facebook thread. The last time I saw Shawn was on the day of his – and my younger brother’s – high school graduation in 1996. I remember feeling bad for Shawn that day. Two years earlier, he had
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