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The Marks Post: Mixed emotions

The new look MLB playoffs began last week with its best-of-three Wild Card Series. The Cubs, winners of the NL Central, were matched up against a rather familiar playoff opponent in the Miami Marlins. It was, of course, a rematch of the infamous 2003 NLCS.

Nancy’s Notes: A hard rain

I’m at my desk on a Monday morning, listening to the steady roll of thunder, as a rain falls hard and fast, then ebbs away to a patter, only to come roaring back, drowning out the office sounds around me. I’m reminded of my favorite Bob Dylan song, “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.

Is there light at the end of the tunnel for HS football?

The ongoing battle to breath life into a high school football season that may be on its last legs has taken a couple of twists and turns over the past couple of weeks.

The Marks Post: Weathering the storm

My earliest hurricane memories revolve around my dad’s aunt Eva. Every weekend, my dad would go pick her up in Pecanière, and she would spend the weekend at our house here in Ville Platte. Every time a storm would enter the Gulf, she would get so paranoid.

The Marks Post: Footprints

You ever had one of those days where what seems to be a series of random events turns into a time for personal growth? Well, I had one of those this past Sunday. Reeves High School baseball coach Jason Savant and I follow each other on Twitter, and we stay in contact with each other because of it.

The Marks Post: The great American pastime returns

We are still in the midst of everything that is plaguing our society today, but, beginning tonight, all will be right with the world for at least the next 60 days. The reason is tonight is Opening Day of Major League Baseball.

Delay or flip-flop; either way sports need to happen

By: TRACEY JAGNEAUX Sports Editor As a sports writer and a fan, I am very excited that the LHSAA has come out and reaffirmed the commitment to play sports in the fall. There are people out there that believe that fall sports should be shut down for safety purposes, just ask Senator Cleo Fields.

Baseball may lose more than just fans if they do not play

With the latest play for power in Major League Baseball, America’s game is once again getting a giant black eye.

In the midst of chaos comes hope

The year started on a high with LSU winning the College Football Playoff National Championship in New Orleans. Then, a month or so later, the wheels fell off the proverbial wagon. A global pandemic hit and washed up on America’s shores.

The Match showed what sports would be without fans

For those of you who, like me, were itching to see what sports would be like without fans, the Champions for Charity golf match between Tiger Woods/Peyton Manning and Phil Mickelson/Tom Brady gave a good glimpse of that. (All right NASCAR fans, I hear you!!!