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Father and sons share night-time woods, time-honored tradition

It’s not for everyone. But the small remnant corps for whom it is are fine with that. They get the night woods to themselves.Hunting raccoons with treeing hounds, shortened to “‘coon hunting” in common parlance, is a rural American tradition with roots reaching back to colonial times. ...

Backstage thoughts from the Raw

Raw emanated from Pittsburgh the past Monday and I was on hand for the event.When I arrived backstage at 5:30, I noticed a buzz around the outside of the arena and once we went into the back, you truly could feel that it was WrestleMania season.As far as the crowd, the show was legitimately ...

Parity? Maybe, but UNC will rule

You want parity, you got it in the NCAA men's basketball tournament this year.At least that's what I keep hearing, things like the tournament is wide open, anyone can win it, there will be upsets galore.I'm not buying it. Every tournament has upsets and I look at the 2016 bracket and don't see ...

Mania over WrestleMania card building

Has Mania already set a record?Thanks to injuries, the WrestleMania card will be a shell of its original self, but that hasn’t stopped fans from making a late push for tickets.Thursday morning, it was reported that the company has sold over 84,000 tickets with three weeks to go.According to ...

Poaching an elusive term

Poaching is an elusive term, loosely defined depending on time, place and context. The word arose in Europe in the early 1600s, when it was applied to anyone who dared trespass on the royal forest to take the king’s deer, salmon or grouse.Today, the word is widely used to describe large-scale ...

Depth hurting Mania card

This week, several emailers reached out to touch base about the WrestleMania card.Considering that the show is four weeks from today, the card is a hot topic and several fans are down on what the lineup may actually be.But what fans have to remember is that the card has been altered heavily due ...