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Football season is rapidly approaching and that means that it is time once again for Fearless Forecasters.
This has been a feature of the sports section of the paper every fall for some time now. My predecessor boldly predicted that he would be the first sports reporter since its inception to win, but he twice failed to deliver.
I choose not to make the same claim. I will gladly enter the contest, and hope that my picks may be cause for conversation, but I make no claim that I will win.
The rules are simple. I get to select 16 games each week from the high school, college, and professional ranks and then 10 people from the community including yours truly attempt to pick the winners. At the end of the year we tally up the totals and declare a winner.
The top five individuals from last year were Buzz Williams, Seth Henry, Chuck Wettstein, Don Whitehouse, and Rosie Honl. All of them are cordially invited to participate again, and I get the sixth spot, so that means that we are looking for interested people to fill the remaining four slots in the contest.
If you would like to be a Fearless Forecaster this year, please call the Central Oregonian at 447-6205, or e-mail me directly at laustin@eaglenewspapers.com. E-mail access is required in order to participate.
By the way, the top five from last year might want to e-mail me as I do not have e-mail addresses and phone numbers for all of you.
And now for something completely different.
Diet and exercise are a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States. As an active physical education instructor, and coach I never worried much about either. I have just played games with my classes, and had done as much of my teams workouts as was convenient.
Now I have a desk job, so working out has become a necessity.
Initially I thought I might take up running again, but the last race I entered my wife, and both of my daughters beat me, and then they were all kindly waiting at the finish line to point that fact out.
Then I thought I would try bicycling again. That was until last Friday's, July 27, Tour De France stage. Sandy Casar of France won the stage in a sprint at the finish. This was actually pretty amazing, because earlier in the day a black Labrador had run out in front of him causing a crash that eliminated another rider and left Sastra with a huge road rash on his shoulder, and right buttocks. A bike crashing with a dog could have been a fluke, but it was the second such crash in the tour, and there was a serious injury in the Portland area over the weekend also involving a dog and a bicyclist.
My wife suggested that I might consider joining a club, but truthfully I'm not really much of a joiner, and I'd rather be outside anyway.
So for the moment I have decided to do what much of America seems to have done. Put it off until tomorrow. Besides next week we are going on vacation and I will be hiking in the mountains of Southeast Alaska. Surely that will count as exercise.
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