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BRYAN – Celina junior quarterback Bowe Bentley and junior linebacker Luke Biagini made a sweep of the player of the year awards on the 73rd annual Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Association’s Class 4A all-state football team. Bentley threw for 3,330 yards with 47 touchdowns and added 933 yards rushing and 18 touchdowns in being the offensive…

BRYAN – Columbus quarterback Adam Schobel was the offensive player of the year on the 73rd annual Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Association’s Class 3A all-state football team. Schobel threw for 3,744 yards with 55 touchdowns and only three interceptions in leading Columbus to the Division I state championship. The TCU signee rushed for 575 yards and…

BRYAN – Ganado quarterback Bryce Ullman and Stamford linebacker Kaston Vega were the players of the year on the 73rd annual Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Association’s Class 2A all-state football team. Ullman threw for 2,779 yards with 47 touchdowns and rushed for 300 yards and seven more touchdowns in leading Ganado to the Division I state…

By Elwyn Henderson        Super Bowl LIX kicked off at Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday, pitting the NFC Champion Philadelphia Eagles against the back-to-back Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs who were trying to get a 3-peat, something never done in the history of the world’s biggest football game.  The game was…

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By JAMES A. MARPLES ************************************************************* A gold medal awarded at the 1904 Olympics hosted at St. Louis was recently sold at auction for $545,371.  It bears the inscription “Olympiad, 1904” and shows a victorious athlete holding a wreath on the front. On the other side, Nike, the goddess of victory in ancient Greek mythology, is…