Friday's Internet Edition, July 25, 2008.
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He has filled it with difficult games. No more gimmies, except for the Duke game.
Maybe he went overboard.
Last week, most of our contest players missed in the double digits.
That’s not fair, and it’s unkind besides.
So forgive the Contest Director. This week’s contest is filled with a number of patsy games. The high school games should be easy. Duke v. Boston College. Appalachian v. WCU.
The Contest Director is gambling again.
But what of last week’s winner who overcame the hardest slate in recent history?
AVERY CHURCH, COME ON DOWNN!!
Church missed six to claim the Cap of Caps and the weekly $25 cash prize.
We dialed his number Monday afternoon.
Gentle Readers, what if you got the Call of Calls right after coming home from the dentist office? It would be terrible, and that’s just the position Avery found himself in when we called. We were unable to record his words for history because he hurt too bad.
Second place?
MABEL SECHRIST, COME ON DOWN! Sechrist missed seven, along with some others. But there was no doubt about deciding who got the cash. She nailed the tie-breaker on the nose at 51 points in the Duke-Navy game.
Now for our coveted non-cash awards:
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR: To others missing seven games - Megan Painter, Glenn Shaver, Peppy Weaver; missing eight — Will Partin, Michael Stone.
BASKETBALL AWARD — To those missing the most — Eliza Leinbach of High Point, Lovely Leslie Madigan, Steve Sechrist, Sam Stitcher, all missing 15 games.
• YOUTH AWARD: To Andy Carowan, 13, missing a very respectable nine is a difficult week.
SPIRITUAL AWARD: To the Rev. Bill Hoyle of Clemmons Presbyterian, who wrote on his entry: “Make the $2,500 check out to the Clemmons Presbyterian Church Building Fund.”
• LONG DISTANCE AWARD: To Rob Sipprell, who sent his entry from San Francisco.
Now to our Mail Bag:
• From Lovely Leslie Madigan, “Will football season ever end? Bring on Basketball?”
• Michael Stone of Greensboro, “The days are getting shorter, the weather’s getting colder and the games are getting harder.”
• Doug Hill, “If this contest wasn’t so inbred in me I would quit. I’m not scaring the sponsors so the money is safe again. Each week they could look at my entry and get a big laugh and thus live longer or die happy. What color is the new Hat of Hats?”
Good luck to all.