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'Painting
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From the Booth
Thursday, October 10, 2002
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By Jeff Charles
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Notes on storks, Secret Service,
'Billville', etc.
�2002 Bonesville.net
One of my favorite writers as a kid was Joe Falls of The
Sporting News. Joe is still kicking with the Detroit Free Press and for
years he has written notes columns.
I love notes columns. They are especially appealing for
those of us with short attention spans. So here we go with a smorgasbord of
tidbits from Pirate Land�
� Another open date comes at a good time with the injuries
piling up. Doug White, Travis Heath, John Williamson, Ike Imodi, Corey
Schmidt and Charles Dempsey are among those listed as the walking wounded�
� Todd Berry is a good guy and we pull for the Army coach
and former Pirate assistant. He�s now 4-23 in his third year. West Point is
a tough nut�
� Amanda Ross from WITN Television filed an outstanding
feature on the Steve Logan Television Show on Pirate football players
visiting a detention center for troubled youths in Greenville. Hosea James,
Ja�Waren Blair, Corey Schmidt, Joe Parsons and Vonta Leach all visited.
Those guys did a great job and related their personal experiences to the
teenagers. James talked about a friend who was murdered, Schmidt about his
brother who�s been in jail, Parsons about his own challenges and Blair about
how sports kept him focused�
� It was a great weekend to be a Pirate last week. A 59-24
victory over Army and the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Pirate
Club in the new Murphy Center. Three hundred fifty people were on hand for
the event�
� Another big crowd attended the Beaufort County Pirate Club
meeting at Frank�s Pizza in Washington Tuesday night. Basketball coach Bill
Herrion brought some Pirate players with him to mingle with Pirate fans.
WITN was there for a live sportscast�
� Rick Dayton, who�s been handling our basketball
play-by-play duties on the Pirate Sports Radio Network when I move over to
television, is relocating to Huntington, WV to become a news anchor on WOWK
Channel 13, the ABC affiliate. We wish Rick all the best�
� It must be in the water. Two members of the Pirate Network
are expecting. Carlester Crumpler and wife Danita are excited about the
birth of their first child as are engineer/producer Paul Rogers and his wife
Melanie�
� Former Pirate Travis Darden is entering training to become
a Secret Service Agent. Another former Pirate, Brian Johnson, is doing
social work in Washington, DC�
� The Athletics Department, Habitat for Humanity and Lowe�s
Home Improvements are collaborating to build a home in Greenville. We
attended a wall raising ceremony last week that you�ll see on Coach Logan�s
Television Show this weekend. What a neat project to be associated with�
� Pirate baseball had its own �World Series� last weekend.
Randy Mazey�s team played a three game series last Friday, Saturday and
Sunday�
� Former Head Coach Keith LeClair will be inducted into the
Western Carolina University Athletics Hall of Fame this weekend. Keith
intends to make the trip in a specially equipped van to Cullowhee. LeClair
will go into the ECU Hall of Fame next weekend�
� I enjoy getting out and talking to civic clubs as often as
possible. Thanks to the folks at the Rocky Mount Kiwanis for the invitation
this past Monday�
� We�ll have our normal lineup of programs this week despite
it being an open date. From the Booth will air Thursday night at 7:00 p.m.
on WCZI, and Logan�s television and radio shows will air at the same times
on Sunday� (Editor's note: Audio archives of From the
Booth with Jeff Charles and The Steve Logan Radio Call-In Show are available
each week in Windows Media format on Bonesville.net.)
� Basketball season tickets will reach an all time high this
year. Expect student demand to be especially strong. We could see our first
�Billville� with students camping out for tickets before big games. Much
like the scene at Duke�
Till next time� �Keep painting�em purple.�
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