Hope you guys enjoyed your Labor Day! Whether you labored or not.
First week of high school football is in the books. Your biggest improvements usually come between week one and two and after week three you know what you’re dealing with barring an injury to key player(s). Wasn’t overly surprised by any of the results but that 6-3 overtime win for Nederland over Lumberton was interesting. We’ll see what the Mustangs do with the Dogs on Friday. And we’ll find out more about Lumberton against West Brook.
We missed a name on our Coaches on the Move list. Shea Bolton, a Bridge City grad and son of Coach Troy Bolton, is now a head coach. He coached Danbury to a season opening win, and his first as a head coach. Congrats coach and many more! Danbury is a 2AD1 school about 25 miles west of Galveston.
Once again the UIL giveth, and the UIL taketh away. One of the reasons we got out of the broadcast business was the UIL dictating what games we would be able to broadcast and then taking the playoffs away from us, unless they needed us. An exception was school-lead free broadcast. Schools like PNG and Liberty do it and they’ve gotten pretty good at it. Well now, according to PNG, the UIL has taken the playoffs away from them too.
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Kudos to the Mardi Gras Krewe des Amis. They held a gun raffle fundraiser to help raise funds for the VFW Post 2775 and presented a check for $4000 this week. Jeff Fruge won the gun. So far, guns and high dollar purses continue to be the top raffle items.
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KOGT announced last week that basketball star Travessa (Gant) King was being inducted into the Lamar Cardinal Hall of Honor. And if you ever saw her play you said the same thing I did, “You mean she’s not already in the Hall?” The event will be October 18.
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Was glad to help the BC/Orangefield Rotary Club with their fundraiser last week. Food, fellowship and fun usually equals a good time. Appreciate the invite and appreciate those guys respecting my time. A lot of money was raised that will go towards some great programs.
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I have a question for you techies. I’m finding that putting college football games on all of these different streaming platforms doesn’t allow me to use my professional clicking skills to go in between games. You have to go out of one app and then into another. OR, is there a way to do it that I’m not aware of? If technology doesn’t provide us a better, faster way, then what’s the use? I look forward to your responses and hope there’s a solution.
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My Anniversary with KOGT is this week. I know there was more that happened but what I remember Day One is moving Terry Lyons to Orange to work for me. I had worked with Terry when I was an employee of the station and he was one of the first people I called when we took over. Terry was blind but he was a phenomenal DJ and I miss him.
On top of that, Hurricane Andrew went across Florida and decided to regenerate in the Gulf and it’s destination was Orange, Texas and my insurance hadn’t kicked in yet! Then as I go into the kitchen at KOGT, this is still on Day One by the way, one of the employees left the water running waiting on the water to heat up and didn’t realize the stopper was in and flooded the kitchen. Shirt and tie with a Shop Vac. Ohhh the memories! At least Andrew took a turn inland before it got to us.
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“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.”
-Gary Stelly-
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Volume 1 No. 30
The Juice is a weekly column where Gary Stelly discusses things that happened the past week and mixes it with 40 years of being involved in the Orange County community. (If we think of a better way to explain it we’ll change it) You can also check out his podcast by clicking on the Behind the Mic banner on the KOGT.com front page.
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