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I hope everyone had a safe
and Happy Thanksgiving and
made it back safe and sound
from travels abroad.
Thanksgiving is about
tradition and spending time
with family and friends, and
I was fortunate to have spent
time with Nikki’s family in
Oklahoma as well as my family
here in the Metroplex.
Obviously the good side is
that I get to see everyone and
catch up on the previous year’s
events, but the negative side is
all the food that my body takes
in on that one day. There is no
calculator available that could
measure all the food that I ate,
and I no doubt gained a couple
of pounds.
Certainly pushing away
from the table instead of ingesting
a third piece of pie was an
option, but I had to try mom’s
pumpkin pie or else it might
have hurt her feelings right?
I will be the first to admit
that I thought the NBA lockout
was going to be a non-factor
and that they were just trying
to be cool like the NFL lockout,
but I was completely wrong.
Both sides have now taken this
thing so far that I’m not sure
that they can recover quickly
from this.
The NFL missed preseason
games and nobody cared, but
had they missed any of the
regular season it would have
been disastrous. Now that the
NBA has already cancelled an
entire two months of games,
they are treading on thin ice
with the fans.
We can deal with missing
training camp, preseason, and
being a little rusty, but if you
mess with season long stats
and a shortened season, then
I’m simply not interested.
What happens if Derrick
Rose leads the league in points
per game and sets an NBA
record, but it’s only for 40
games?
That puts an asterisk by it,
and trust me, we fans hate the
asterisk. MLB had a strike in
1994 that cancelled the entire
post season and dragged all the
way to opening day 1995 where
they decided to settle on a 144
game season instead of the
normal 162.
Two seasons were disrupted
and altered and a massive
backlash ensued where attendance
was down over
40% when the season finally
started.
I can absolutely see this
happening to the NBA. As a
matter of fact I would love to
see arenas completely empty
as a sign to the owners and
players that no matter how
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It took me several years to
get back into baseball after
the strike in 1994-95 because I
realized that I didn’t need baseball
and that my life continued
on and something else filled
the void for me.
So far I haven’t missed
basketball much at all and now
that the season will have an
asterisk I could care even less.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: There is
now a handshake deal in place
that could put the NBA back
on the floor. We will have to
see what the season will consist
of, and if the Daceman will be
watching.)
There is one thing that
athletes in any sport must do,
and that is to appreciate the
talent and work that it takes
just to play in the league of the
greatest players in the world.
Therefore it is mind boggling
to me to see someone
like the Detroit Lion’s dirty
and despicable defensive end
Ndamukong Suh stomp on
another player like he was
nothing.
He should know as much as
anyone how he would feel if he
injured someone so bad that it
ruined their career.
The problem is that he
doesn’t think at all while he
is on the field and this is why
he needs to be suspended for
a couple of games. If the guy
can’t control himself then the
league needs to control him
and when his career is in
jeopardy, then maybe he will
finally get it.
What makes it worse is that
in this day and age of over
media exposure he thought
that the 10 cameras that were
on him wouldn’t show him
stomping another player? He
also stated in his after-game
press conference that he and
the guy upstairs know what
happened and that’s all that
matters to him. Well I hope he
was referring to Big Brother
because we all know what he
did and he’s delusional if he
thinks that his actions were
justified in any way shape or
form.
Bowlers
Reunion
From Carolyn “Mudd”
Anderton – To ALL Bowlers,
there will be a bowler’s
reunion on December 10th
from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
at Papa G’s Sports Bar in
Bedford, located at 121 N.
and Harwood. This is event
is open to all, so come and
reunite with friends from
the past, put this on your
calendar. For more info,
check out Mudd’s Facebook
page.
Gudrun Gerda (G.G.) Wright
Services for Gudrun Gerda
(G.G.) Wright, 69, were held
November 28th at Crawford
and Bowlers Funeral Home
Chapel in Killeen.
Mrs. Wright died Nov.
21 at Scott
and White
Hospital
She was
born June
16, 1942
in Mainz/
Gonsenheim,
Germany
where she
was reared
and educated.
She was of
the Lutheran
faith.
She was a
world-class
swimmer and
competed with the Mainz
Swim Team for 8 years and
captured the German Championship
in 1958.
A graduate of numerous
military contracting schools,
she served as a Non-Appropriated
Fund (NAF) employee
for 20 years completing her
career as a contract specialist
for NAF.
During her career she
received the Commanders
Award for Civil Service.
G.G. was a member of the
Killeen-Fort Hood Women’s
Bowling Association for 34
years. She was a director
on the Killeen-Fort Hood
Women’s Bowling Association
for 10 years. She had been
the Secretary for the Fort
Hood Officer’s Mixed League
for 30 years.
An avid bowler, she
participated in the WIBC
Nationals Tournament for 26
consecutive years.
Gudrun Gerda (G.G.) Wright
She competed in the
Texas State Women’s Bowling
Association Tournament for
29 years.
She was a certified AJBC
coach and coached youth
bowling on
Fort Hood
during the
1970s.
She was
inducted in
to the Greater
Killeen-Fort
Hood USBC
Association
Hall of Fame
in 2005.
She worked
as a freelance
photographer
with her
husband at
numerous
bowling settings to include
the induction of Billy Welu
into the Texas Sports Hall
of Fame. Her photographs
have appeared in bowling
newspapers such as Gulf
Coast Bowling News, The
Bowling News, The Killeen
Daily Herald and various
web sites promoting bowling.
She was a member of the
Bowling Writer’s Association
of America and the Southern
Bowling Writers Association.
She is survived by her
husband, Don of Killeen; two
sons, Keith Alan Wright of
Florida, Mark Steven Wright
of Ohio; one daughter Vikki
Dee Wright (John) of Henrietta,
TX.; 9 grandchildren, 1
great-grandson and her brothers
Michael and Wolfgang of
Germany.
She was preceded in death
by her mother Hildegard
Schrader.
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