Category Archives: Auburn

God Comes First, and Sports Comes Second

In the winter of 1980 the bus to Forest Lake Christian School leaves before sunrise and comes back after dark. The ride runs two hours each way. Luke Ford rides it in the cold, fourteen years old, pulled that summer … Continue reading

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The Sportswriter

Scott Hamelin and I go to Placer High School together 1982-1984. We are friendly. The friend I make is his father. Joe Hamelin is the Sports Editor of the Sacramento Bee (he used to be a beat writer assigned to … Continue reading

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Live

The teletype runs all night. It is July 6, 1985, and I am nineteen, an intern at KAHI in Auburn, and I sit in the booth from eight to five on the weekends and read the news two and a … Continue reading

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Auburn

I don’t think I ever heard the terms “redneck”, “cracker”, “white trash” and “white flight” until we moved to Auburn in the fall of 1980. I had to have them explained to me by middle class neighbors. We were surrounded … Continue reading

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