By DANNY MINTON Growing up one of the most popular games we played was Monopoly. There were times that a game would run for hours, eventually ending with no one winning. The first game we had used wooden houses, hotels, and markers. Later we had one that used plastic houses and hotels, and the markers were changed to metal pieces.
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON The guys I play golf with have an unwritten rule. We are allowed one mulligan per nine holes played. For those that don’t know, a mulligan is simply a “do over.” You can redo any shot, and the first one doesn’t count against you. We don’t play for money, just for fun. Now I realize that it
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By DANNY MINTON Unless you have been asleep for the past week, it would be impossible to miss the academic scandal news. Celebrities have been caught lying and buying their children’s way into certain universities. Coaches, school officials, and test administrators have been fired for taking bribes of five and six figures. Some will face huge fines while others will
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Several years back there was an animated movie entitled, “The Emperor’s New Groove.” The villain in the film was an ugly woman, described as “scarier beyond all reason,” whose name was Yzma (eezma). Her sidekick was a big dumb looking guy, who provided comic relief in the movie, named Kronk. There is one scene in the movie
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By DANNY MINTON I’m a big Dallas Cowboy fan. I have been since Eddie LeBaron was a quarterback and as a junior high football player, I could get end zone tickets for 50 cents each at the Cotton Bowl. At halftime, we’d move on over to the 30-yard line since Dallas didn’t always draw big crowds in 1960. I was
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By DANNY MINTON I grew up under a dark “cloud.” It hung over me for much of my life and every so often floats back over, although there are more times of sunshine than I had in the past. You see, I belong to a congregation of people who call themselves “The Church of Christ.” The cloud? Well, growing up
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By DANNY MINTON Jerry Kramer was an offensive lineman drafted in the fourth round of the NFL draft by Green Bay in 1958. In 1959 Vince Lombardi became the head coach of the team. The story goes that one day Kramer was having such a bad practice that Lombardi became fed up and said, “Son, you are a lousy football
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON As a child growing up, we’d often make the trip to my grandparents in Howe, Texas. The trip from Plano was around 45 minutes. In the early days without car air-conditioning, with the windows down you could smell the creosol that coated the fenceposts. Now every time I come around that smell, it reminds me of those
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By DANNY MINTON Turn on the TV, listen to a conversation, or walk down the mall and you’ll get a picture of the world of our youth today. Sex, violence, drugs, are shown and discussed in many circles. The apathetic work ethic and laziness are thrown out for us to consider. We label a whole generation based on what we
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Spirit Of Abilene 