Yabadabadoo
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I will openly admit, I’ve written probably more than my share of these types of columns.
In my 26 years of being in the journalism business, I’ve had seven different jobs of various levels, including my time with the Laramie Boomerang and WyoSports. Almost all have been as sports editor of the local paper, although one was an ill-fated venture into the news editor side of journalism.
Let’s just say it wasn’t for me.
I’m a sports guy — always have been and always will be.
So, almost always these columns bidding farewell from one position as I transition into another have centered around the events that have taken place during my tenure at a given newspaper.
From NCAA basketball tournaments and football bowl games all the way to covering Little League baseball, I would reminisce about the good times I’ve had getting paid to watch and write about sports.
And while there have been plenty of events that I’ve covered here in southeast Wyoming that could easily fill up a column, the thing that struck me more this time than any other as I thought about my tenure in Laramie was this — the people.
Because as good as the sports have been to cover in Laramie and this corner of the state, the friends that I’ve reacquainted with or made during my time here have been even better.
From the folks that run both the Laramie Boomerang and the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, to the entire athletic staff at the University of Wyoming, to the close circle of friends who will forever remain in that circle, to those who pick up a paper every day, I couldn’t have imagined a better way to spend the last five years.
It hasn’t always been good times, of course.
The saying goes you truly find out about those close to you when you go through a major life event, and four years ago, that happened to me. I had a heart attack on the floor of the Arena-Auditorium before a Wyoming Cowgirls game. Many I’ve talked to since then said I probably shouldn’t have survived that event.
But I did, thanks to the amazing efforts of the Laramie emergency medical staff at the site — and one that wasn’t even on duty — and those at Ivinson Memorial Hospital and the Colorado Heart Center of the Rockies.
There are simply no words to describe my gratitude.
To read the rest of the story go here---> http://www.wyosports.net/university_of_wyoming/nulph-column-it-s-the-people-friends-i-will-remember/article_b9d6eb46-1edd-11e5-9d6e-6b3a107a410d.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In my 26 years of being in the journalism business, I’ve had seven different jobs of various levels, including my time with the Laramie Boomerang and WyoSports. Almost all have been as sports editor of the local paper, although one was an ill-fated venture into the news editor side of journalism.
Let’s just say it wasn’t for me.
I’m a sports guy — always have been and always will be.
So, almost always these columns bidding farewell from one position as I transition into another have centered around the events that have taken place during my tenure at a given newspaper.
From NCAA basketball tournaments and football bowl games all the way to covering Little League baseball, I would reminisce about the good times I’ve had getting paid to watch and write about sports.
And while there have been plenty of events that I’ve covered here in southeast Wyoming that could easily fill up a column, the thing that struck me more this time than any other as I thought about my tenure in Laramie was this — the people.
Because as good as the sports have been to cover in Laramie and this corner of the state, the friends that I’ve reacquainted with or made during my time here have been even better.
From the folks that run both the Laramie Boomerang and the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, to the entire athletic staff at the University of Wyoming, to the close circle of friends who will forever remain in that circle, to those who pick up a paper every day, I couldn’t have imagined a better way to spend the last five years.
It hasn’t always been good times, of course.
The saying goes you truly find out about those close to you when you go through a major life event, and four years ago, that happened to me. I had a heart attack on the floor of the Arena-Auditorium before a Wyoming Cowgirls game. Many I’ve talked to since then said I probably shouldn’t have survived that event.
But I did, thanks to the amazing efforts of the Laramie emergency medical staff at the site — and one that wasn’t even on duty — and those at Ivinson Memorial Hospital and the Colorado Heart Center of the Rockies.
There are simply no words to describe my gratitude.
To read the rest of the story go here---> http://www.wyosports.net/university_of_wyoming/nulph-column-it-s-the-people-friends-i-will-remember/article_b9d6eb46-1edd-11e5-9d6e-6b3a107a410d.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
