Believe it or not, the 2009 high school football season kicks off two weeks and a day from today.
While the area’s teams are gearing up in preparation for the upcoming season, so are we.
Along those lines, we are asking you, Loyal Readers, to help us provide some different types of stories.
While we will cover the games, the previews, the analysis and the columns by the likes of the infamous Major Amos B. Hoople, we are hoping you can provide us with some sidebar stories.
So we are calling on anyone associated with the game or the staging of the game — other than players or coaches — to tell us what makes — or made — high school football special to you.
We’re talking about cheerleaders, band members, mascots, chain-gang members, public-address announcers, concession-stand workers... you name it, we want to hear your memories, your stories, your magic moments.
What is it about high school football that makes — or made — it special for you.
Here’s your chance to express those thoughts.
Please submit them in one of the following manners:
n Email — donmac@suite224.net.
n Fax — 998-7938.
n “Snail” mail — Addressed to Don McCormack, Sports Editor, The Star Beacon, P.O. Box 2100, Ashtabula, Ohio 44005-2100.
n Or dropped off here at the Star Beacon offices, addressed to me, located at 4626 Park Ave. here in Ashtabula.
Please include a telephone number so we can contact you if we’d like to follow up with you.
Deadline is Wednesday, Aug. 19.
Consider us your holder — all you have to do now is kick the football through the uprights.
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Love of the game?
Cheerleaders, band members, mascots, etc. — past and present —= we want to hear your stories
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Give him an Oscar!
For the first three years of his football career with the Grand Valley Mustangs, offensive lineman Alex Oscar said he viewed playing football as more of a job than a fun sport to play.
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Goal: Be a Pioneer... literally
Jefferson graduate Ariann Barile doesn’t have plans to rule the world — yet. She has, however, put herself on a path to accomplish that goal if she so decides, by choosing to attend Marietta College and play softball for the Pioneers in the fall.
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A Don McCormack column: TD Club announces its Class of 2013
Paying a visit to the variety store...
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Love of the game
Even though Roy Brashear was born two years before James “Farmer” Burns, it was the latter who beat the former in terms of becoming the first man born in the city of Ashtabula to reach the majors.
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Help wanted...
Loyal Readers, I ask your assistance.
If anyone knows of relatives or information on the following individuals, please contact me at the email address that appears at the end of this brief: -
A Don McCormack column: Blashinsky very much in the game
Dave Blashinsky wears more than one hat, these days.
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2013 North Coast Road Racing Grand Prix:
n July 4 — Ashtabula YMCA Firecracker 5K, 8:30 a.m., 263 W. Prospect, Ashtabula,
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Farmer Burns — Ashtabula’s first major leaguer
Third of a series...
Two weeks ago today, one of the first man born in the city of Ashtabula to play in a Major League Baseball game celebrated his 137th birthday.
Then again, odds are, he wasn’t around to blow out the candles at such an age, but no one is sure.
For while we know James Joseph Burns was born on June 2, 1876 in Ashtabula, there is no record of his death.
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Shootout returning ‘home’
The Westside Shootout is returning home.
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Tribe lets one get away
It could have been an uplifting victory. Instead, it was a frustrating loss.
After having his at-bat prolonged by an error on a foul ball, Anthony Rendon took advantage by hitting his first major-league home run. - More Sports Headlines
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