bye bye baseball...

it's over, it's really over!

the naturals got swept by the travs this past weekend which marks the end of baseball season. how many fricking games did they play? minor league baseball isn't nearly as fun if you are prohibited from participating in dollar beer night.

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ronnie b gives back...

former razorback basketball standout ronnie brewer donated $50,000 to the african-american studies department at the university of arkansas this afternoon. brewer left school a year early to enter the nba draft back in 2006, and is currently playing for the utah jazz. the gift makes brewer one of the first former student athletes in arkansas history to donate money to their alma mater for academic rather than athletic purposes. brewer, who still has 40 hours to go on his broadcast journalism degree (thinking ahead, smart fella), said that he promised his mom he would finish up, and that he still intends to keep that promise. the money will be used for a scholarship fund to promote the advancement of minorities in journalism.

much respect, ronnie, much respect.

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ps - i'd like to give a shout out to the tv guy with the blinding light on his camera. you stood 6 inches from the guy i was supposed to shoot for at least 20 minutes, but together we both made it work.

hurricanes blow

thousands of "displaced citizens" have been transported to ft. chaffee down the road from us, so we went down yesterday for a bit. we had a minder the entire time, but i was able to meet a couple of people who shared their stories with me.



donald bryant (right) expressed frustration about the sleeping quarters in the barracks at ft chaffee. his family was sharing space with at least 2 dozen other people. "we have young girls sleeping in here and sharing a bathroom with men, so yeah, i'm concerned." bryant said that the bus ride from new orleans took 16 hours and that the bus driver got lost along the way.



clifford nixon (bottom left) and his son clifford nixon jr., 5, of new orleans, talk with united way volunteer tom kaufenberg at the ft chaffee intake center. nixon and his son had just made it back to new orleans in july after having been displaced by katrina 3 years ago.