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All of this legal wrangling regarding Alden Foster and the head football coaching job at Amite High School had its roots in the Jim Crow South and the push for African Americans to have equal access to a system that was supposed to be equal for all citizens from the get-go. However, Foster’s involvement in the federal case against the Tangipahoa Parish School System and the subsequent ruling

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Blaxploitation movies from the 1970s are not exactly great source material to cross-reference to the world of sports. However, one such flick contains scenes that are eerily transferable to sports — namely college football. That movie is "The Mack," the 1973 blaxploitation masterpiece starring Max Julien, Richard Pryor and Roger E. Mosley — "T.C." from "Magnum, P.I." At first glance, it seems

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First things first, I took one of those oral swab HIV tests. The result (which I had a damned good feeling) was that I'm HIV negative. So I guess, like that old BET ad campaign, there's peace of mind in knowing.But that's probably the side note to the whole thing. My girlfriend's church was sponsoring free HIV testing for people in the community. She talked me into getting tested and we share

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NFL commissioner Roger Goddell may have a much-younger kindred spirit in the 10-year-old son of local resident Myrtle Johnson. Johnson said her son needed to take medication after watching World Wrestling Entertainment chairman Vince McMahon "get killed" in an exploding limousine at the end of "Monday Night Raw" two weeks ago. Goddell probably had to take medication after suspended

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METAIRIE, La.—Remember the mall concert madness of the late 1980s through early 1990s? You know, the thousands of screaming fans with T-shirts, hats and posters cramming into the food court or some other small space to see some young up-and-coming teen heartthrob send mall security into DEFCON 1? Well, the New Orleans Saints' facility had that same energy during its mini-camp a week ago.

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Yo, peopleSorry it's been a goof few months since I last hit the blog up, but I'm back....Just a recent update, I placed third in the best sports column category by the Louisiana Press Assocation. Does that make me an award-winning columnist as well as an award-winning writer?Stay tuned y'all. I'm bout to get back into it.

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St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain landed in a little political hot water about a month ago regarding his comments discussing a horrendous incident of “spillover crime” in his sprawling, suburban jurisdiction. He got in trouble by saying this during a television interview in late June: "If you’re going to walk the streets of St. Tammany Parish with dreadlocks and chee

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We talk to ourselves every day. Mumble brief reminders to do something. Calculate how much to tip that server at a restaurant. Whisper prayers that a certain person does not give make life harder at work/school/cell block D today, tomorrow or the next day. We also have internal conversations every day. Thinking about how much money to put aside for gas that day. Remem-bering if we gave the pet

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Psst...hey you, the reader. Do you ever find yourself wanting more out of what you are reading, but just cannot figure how to get get your selected readings chock full of entertaining tidbits. Well, the sick minds at Slant & Go Enterprises have an offer for you. The brain mistrust that brought you "Slant & Go at the Movies" is going to temporarily break down that fourth wall thing that

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Michael Wilbon, the Washington Post columnist and bespectacled guy on ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption," wrote the following one year after Maryland star Len Bias overdosed on cocaine and died two days after the Boston Celtics took him second overall in the 1986 NBA draft. There's a basketball court in Rockville (Md.) on which some the day after Bias died painted on the backboards and court: "Len

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Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water, the brain trust at Slant & Go Studios return to tantalize the viewing public. The attention garnered by some of S&G’s proposed projects a week ago have prompted officials at the entertainment conglomerate to think of something grand, something huge, something ... sequenced. S&G is not afraid to look at trends as big-budget movie

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Big-budget movie season is drawing near, and it isnever too early to pitch ideas for potentialblockbusters. The latest trend in Holly-wood is the “retread,” ormore commonly known as the remake. Remakes are easyto do because a basic premise is already known andpeople already know what happened. Throw in a coupleof young, hip stars along with some cheezy referencesto the original, and you have

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Violators: Beware of "The Code"(Originally published in April 16 edition of The Hammond (La.) Daily Star) There are several codes out there in existence — key, DiVinci, Morse and Napoleonic to name a few. There is one code that supersedes them all in the world of sports, “The G Code.” The G-Code is more than simply than a hip, catchy phrase. It is an unwritten code based upon the Golden Rule that

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Originally appeared in April 3, 2006 edition of the Hammond (La.) Daily Star. Rapper Mike Jones is noted for the following lyric: “Back then, they didn’t want me. Now I’m hot, they’re all on me.” The same applied to LSU’s men’s basketball team and coach John Brady before the Tigers’ run to the Final Four ended abruptly at the hands of UCLA. The road to Indianapolis was long for the Tigers’

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Excerpt from Feb. 5, 2005 column The college football recruting game is not exactly "The Crying Game," but it's a dramatic thriller. It's also something similar to the TV dating show "Elimidate," where a person has to sift through four or five suitors and goes through the process of elimination until he figures out which one he likes the best—and commits to one of them at the end of the show.

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This appeared in the Daily Star's Jan. 1 edition. Happy New Year, bitches!!!!!!BTW: I'll do my best to update this thing more regularly The year 2005 has ended, and many folks out there compiled or read the obligatory "year-in-review" columns and checklists. The obvious stories will get mentioned, such as Hurricane Katrina's impact, Lance Armstrong winning his upteenth-straight Tour deFrance and

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I have seen many things in my now 27 years on planet Earth, but what I'm about to tell you can clearly take the cake.White people fighting: I've seen it, funny as hell but nothing like this.Crackheads running out of a women's clothing store with an armful of clothes: funny as hell, but nothing like this.A dog attack a duck outside of Southern University's Mayberrry Cafeteria: something out of "

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I, Fredrick J. Batiste, of sound mind and body, confess to being a fan of professional wrestling AKA "'rasslin.'"Now, let me clarify some things.1. Wrestling is a sport. Wrestling is what Kurt Angle got his gold medal in the 1996 Olympics in, it's what the University of Iowa is best known for and it's one of Earth's oldest (and most basic/primal) sports.2. " 'Rasslin'" is sports-based

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(NOTE: This column ran in the Sept. 25, 2005 edition of The Hammmond (La.) Daily Star).SLANT-N-GOBy Fred Batiste Three weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina cut a swath of destruction, despair and calamity through southeast Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Saints and Tulane sports have been scattered throughout the south, like many of the residents of south Louisiana.

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All this Hurricane Katrina (the baddest bitch) mess went a whole new level for me, somewhat.All over a whoadette--a female from New Orleans--a.k.a--Whoadieland.Picture it: Baton Rouge, 1998. Carefree guy being a summer counselor for a high school program. The whoadette was student at Southern at the time. We met through a mutual friend, a co-worker of mine, and we were kicking it hard during that

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This ran in the Hammond (La.) Daily Star Aug. 28, 2005. But for obvious reasons (the Hurricane), I wasn't able to get this online... The quest for the 2005 Southwestern Athletic Conference title features just as many question marks and storylines than the conference probably has teams. Of the 10-team conference, only three - defending champion Alabama State, runnerup Southern and Grambling State

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Sorry about the hiatus folks, things are starting to get back to "normal" since the baddest bitch/Hurricane Katrina came callin' a couple weeks ago. Here's my take on Jerry Rice's retirement, but be warned, it's in my usually twisted point-of-view.Jerry Rice has retired, or as I like to think of it, euthanized by the football gods. I know that the guy Gunglinger Cooley said could catch BBs in the

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Powerless. That's how I felt for a few minutes Friday. It's not powerless like being without electricity or batteries. I mean powerless like there's nothing you can do to change the situation.There's only been two situations in my life when I felt that way--when my little cousin died in a car wreck when I was in 7th grade and when my father died when I was 15. That third moment came while I was

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I was about 12 years old the last time I witnessed something nearly on the level of this here Hurricane Katrina mess. It was 1992, and Hurricane Andrew ripped Florida and Louisiana, leaving my hometown without power for two weeks easy and devestating a lot of things around me. I was too young to fully understand the damage that Andrew wrought. Now, I totally understand because another, more

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Welcome to my blog!!!!I hope you'll find this thing here kinda fun, informative, entertaining and (to the ladies) stimulating!!!Quick rundown: I'm Fred Batiste, A Weapon of Mass Destruction from http://www.bomanijones.com fame/infamy/lunacy. Check my boy Bo Jones out, he's pretty damned good..I'm a sports writer that also spent nearly 3 years covering education issues in southeastern Louisiana (

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