Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Bankstons found niche, love the Dogs
This community needs no reminder of the impact severe weather can have. Not when there are still trees down and other clear reminders of tornadoes that ...
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Columns
SMITH COLUMN: The interesting stories of the great Verne Lundquist
DALLAS – When you arrive at Dallas–Ft. Worth Airport, you always notice the sprightly atmosphere that prevails. There may be a recession, elsewhere in the ...
by Loran Smith, Saturday, February 4, 2023 10:30 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Dick Ferguson
Down on the farm, yesteryear, there were no button-down shirts existing for the country boys I knew. When I learned about button-downs, little did I ...
by Loran Smith, Thursday, January 26, 2023 10:30 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Three peat
There will always be interesting vignettes in sports histories, some current, but most of them retold with a new perspective as a fragile world turns.
by Loran Smith, Wednesday, January 25, 2023 11:30 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Fond memories of the west coast, L.A.
LOS ANGELES – This city has the most sentimental of names, but one which is no longer descriptive. Nobody would consider Los Angeles “the city ...
by Loran Smith, Thursday, January 12, 2023 10:30 am
Editorials
SMITH COLUMN: Spending some time in Nevada
OVERTON, Nev. – In this town of 4,244, some 65 miles northeast of Las Vegas, the best-known city in the Sagebrush state, which is also ...
by Loran Smith, Friday, January 6, 2023 10:30 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Stetson Bennett’s hometown
HOBOKEN – Georgia Highway 15 passes uneventfully through this crossroads junction which is eleven miles east of Blackshear which may change its name to Bennettville, ...
by Loran Smith, Thursday, December 22, 2022 9:30 am
Columns
KING COLUMN: The story of Christmas
There is a large number of characters and their stories that have sprung up around Christmas. Good characters include Santa Claus and St. Nicholas. Bad ...
by Loran Smith, Wednesday, December 21, 2022 1:58 pm
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: New York is back
NEW YORK – Dating back to the mid-seventies, I was fortunate to visit this electric city at least once a year. I have never had ...
by Loran Smith, Thursday, December 15, 2022 10:30 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Champ Bailey, one of the greats
College football is under duress these days with all the transferring in a free agent world nobody could have predicted along with a grab for ...