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Yes, Virginia, there will be a football season By Don Munsch, Editor drama starring Tom Cruise as cant way upon your own and court during regular sea- school season had sports ing stop coming in Kal Film critic Roger Ebert a high school football player feelings of worth, when ‘We son and playoff games, for knocked out because of Texas, where he coached at once wrote that high school wanting to earn a scholar- won!’ means that we won, various sports, I will never COVID-19. And the coro- Morton Ranch High School. sports can reveal certain ship so he could leave his ec- a football game can take on forget the first Battle of the navirus remains a threat to Meadows won three state truths about how people onomically depressed Penn- aspects of Greek tragedy.” Ax football game I was at the 2020-21 sports seasons. championships in Clinton look at themselves. sylvania steel town, Ebert Hey, that’s not an exag- between Denison and Sher- But football and other sports and one in Garden City, In his review of “All the noted how “when a school geration. I’ve been on the man in Texas in 1995, and have started this fall in Okla- Right Moves,” a 1983 teen victory reflects in a signi Kansas. Elk City is coming sidelines and on the field the sheer energy emanat- homa, and athletes just hope off two straight 0-10 seasons ing from Munson Stadium they get a chance to compete in Denison as I walked into for an entire season. and is looking for its first the stadium before kickoff is win since 2017. No fall without football? something I can never for- That’s sort of like Christmas The Oilers, similarly, get. also are looking forward to without Santa Claus, right? Playoff games, especially Some collegiate sports con- reaching the win column a5 state championship games, this year after finishing 0-9 SMOOTHIE can stand apart from oth- ferences have called off their last season. ers, though, because when a football seasons this year, Inside, we preview both team I covered won, the joy- though. We’ll wait and see teams and try to give read- what happens to the Big 12, 20% OFF ful emotions were palpable. ers a sense of what the Elks Players and fans alike were as to whether Oklahoma and and Oilers have in store for ecstatic. When the teams Oklahoma State will play 2020. lost, the tears would flow their seasons. The National Perhaps those teams will your first online order and the mood was obviously Football League intends to make some lasting memo- subdued. One year, in 2009, play its schedule. ties for themselves and their a high school softball team Elk City and Merritt open fan: — START YOUR ORDER AT — I covered won the regional Editor's note: Lest there play in the next week, with eyeopenercoffee.com round and was heading to the Elks traveling to Pampa may be confusion, the story state, and I can’t recall a time headline refers to a state- in zero week and the Oilers ment - “Yes, Virginia, there or text EYEOPENER to 33733 when players were laughing and crying at the same time visiting Mangum in week is a Santa Claus” - found in one. an editorial written by an afterward. [That team even- Ofer valid on frst oder through the Ey np for ied tre oly. By sig th flee & Smoothie House websie or mobi tually won state.] The Elks begin the season editor from The Sun in New cu onset fo rece text messages sen telephone dang system Messe ‘daa rates may aply. Your use ol York when a young girl, Vir- Sain is goemed by chomrowcompiveygoiy and tatngocomriay-pley| Indvdalestaurant promotionsd poy tothe ChowNow mobie appor webs This year, 2020, has been, with a new head coach, Dave ginia O'Hanlon, age 8, sent WNTORD as everyone knows, a di Meadows, who’s had stints a letter to the paper in 1897 ent sort of year for sports of in Oklahoma, Texas and asking whether Santa Claus Powered By ChowNow all levels. The spring high Kansas, with his last coach- existed.