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Monthly Archives: April 2020

In summer ball league, you see the goodness of this grand old game

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER BANCROFT, Iowa, Aug. 17, 2019 – In this summer of mass shootings, suspicion of those different from ourselves, and outright hate, thank God for baseball, you know? Almost daily, the grand old game gives us good lessons – prepare well, get out of yourself, sacrifice for others, work together as a team,…

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April 29, 2020 in OFFENBLOGGER.

As Iowa said farewell to RAGBRAI’s Jim Green, an all-time fun-lover

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, June 20, 2019 — It was 30 years ago this summer when I decided to get my ear pierced and start wearing an earring.  It was 29 years ago when I met Carla Burt during a bicycle ride on a recreational trail. Jim Green inspired both big moments in my life. …

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April 28, 2020 in OFFENBLOGGER.

A non-singing Iowan picked Nashville’s stars to do National Anthems

By ROD WILLIAMSON NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 27, 2019 — From 1983 through 1994, I selected the National Anthem singers at Vanderbilt University athletic events. On the surface, this might appear to be a mundane task, but when your school’s home base is Nashville – “Music City USA” – the National Anthems are more scrutinized than…

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April 28, 2020 in Guest Column.

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