| Apple Cup Preview: Where Are They Now? Huskies fullback Robin Earl ran ...
He was this huge guy from Kent with the medieval name, a tight end for a season and a half before the coaching staff decided to really terrorize defenses and put him at fullback. Few sights were more intimidating than 6-foot-5, 250-pound Robin Earl barreling out of the backfield with a football under his arm and looking to punish someone, still wearing No. 99 after moving from the line. Earl even played some tailback for fun in his final game with the Huskies, the 1976 Apple Cup, contributing 121 of the Huskies' 354 yards rushing in a 51-32 victory in Spokane. He wasn't his team's leading rusher that day, deferring to Ronnie Rowland, who piled up 196 yards, but he felt responsible. "He followed me every play," Earl said. Earl, who lost to the Cougars as a freshman tight end and then won three consecutive Apple Cup games as a fullback, felt melancholy after the final victory over his state rival.
Dorsey's double-double leads Tigers over UCF
With every move a University of Memphis player or coach makes, from now until this white-hot spotlight of a No. 1 ranking shines on some other corner of the college basketball universe, scrutiny does not follow far behind. It is the inescapable, inconvenient reality of having a team so talented; a daily struggle to achieve the perfection their record and their national profile demands. For the first time this season, that perfection was challenged in a way nobody around the program saw coming. Robert Dozier, always thought of as the most solid citizen in the Tigers' locker room, was suspended for breaking the team's curfew, proving again how fragile reputations can be when the stakes are this high. .
What's up in The Albemarle 02/07
One-stop voting continues. Early, one-stop voting for the Tuesday, Feb. 19, special election in Elizabeth City between 3rd Ward candidates Michael Brooks and Daniel Evans continues through Saturday, Feb. 16. Third Ward voters may cast ballots at the Pasquotank County Board of Elections Office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hours Feb. 16 will be 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Republican Club to meet. The Al-Pam Republican Club will meet today at 6:30 p.m. at Big Daddy's Restaurant, 103 Capital Trace, Elizabeth City. Guest speaker will be Mr. Chad Adams, director of the Center for Local Innovation, and vice president for development for the John Locke Foundation. For more information, call 793-9547 or e-mail al-pamrepublicanclub@hotmail.com. Early College High School sessions. The Currituck County Schools will hold information sessions for parents of eighth-graders on the school district's new Early College High School program at Moyock Middle School today at 6:30 p.m., and at Currituck County Middle School Tuesday, Feb.
Return of the Native
It wasnt so much the final product that inspired him as the act of creating it. Shady graduated from the Lego set to household appliances, becoming a handyman around the house. By his teens, Shady dreamed of being an electrical engineer when he grew up. But a 76 percent on his thanaweya amma exam in 1993 doomed him to the faculty of commerce, English section, at Cairo University. We are victims of an educational system that virtually assigns careers depending on how well you can memorize and spit back textbooks during exam time, he claims. But Shady is one of those people who dont mind playing the hand they are dealt and making the most of it. After graduation, he landed a cushy job as an analyst in a large financial consulting firm. He was soon disillusioned, however, complaining of being treated as a second-class employee by a demotivating and abusive boss who seemed to only respect made in the West degrees.
R. Carriere from Maritimes, Canada writes:
These morons running the zoo should be put out to pasture NOW.
What kind of idiot GM would send his prized goalie half way across the continent and into a cesspool of a dressing room-then sit him on the bench or in the stands -then send him back. Even if he got the start, you have to be out of your mind to start him in San Jose-real good for the confidence to get blown out and stormed in the crease while the Leaf defence look on. Look at the way Gainey/Carbo are bringing along Price?
IDIOTS!!
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Fill 'er up : Arnie Armstrong has owned his gas station, tire shop for ...
Arnie Armstrong, right, talks with Ernie Wallen recently at Arnie's Gas and Tire Center in Ronan, the business that Armstrong has owned for 55 years. At 81, Armstrong is still involved in running the business that he started in 1952.
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Family Calendar
Geocaching Adventure: Bring your family on a high-tech treasure hunt with this winter geocaching activity. This program is from 1 to 3 p.m. Feb. 17. Ages 5 and up; under 18 with an adult. $2 per person. For reservations, call 630-850-8110.
• Herrick Lake: In Wheaton. Call 630-933-7681. Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kids: Learn how to experience the outdoors through "leave no trace" camping. Program is from 1 to 3 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Youth-Group Cabin. Ages 5 and up; under 18 with an adult. For reservations, call 630-933-7248. n Kline Creek Farm: Farm hours, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays. Farm outbuildings close at 4:30 p.m. In West Chicago. Call 630-876-5900. Lambing: See the season's new lambs, some as they're being born, and learn the role livestock played on an 1890s farm.
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