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Sports Reporter at the Mansfield News Journal, VP of Ohio Prep Sports Media Association, Husband to an amazing woman @SamMFurr08 🟧🟫⬜️🟫🟧 •IIIIII• ✌🏻

Ontario, OH
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1 year
Parental issues in high school sports are reaching disturbing and potentially catastrophic levels. So, I wrote a letter hoping some eyes will open before it is too late. We shall see.
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Now wait a minute! When I played at Eastern Ohio, we played outside on blacktop in 100-degree heat! 😒
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Eastern Ohio Sports Complex
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Working on the finishing touches!
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Now that the OHSAA has given the thumbs up to start winter sports, next thing to do is to modify this contact tracing debacle. Forcing kids to quarantine for 14 days because they sat in the same classroom while both were wearing masks is just crazy.
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5 years
@coachdanmoore @NFHS_Org @Jerry_Snodgrass Play defense and this doesn’t happen. Force the action.
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4 years
So Ohio State and Michigan played during the Spanish Flu, Great Depression, two World Wars and countless other global events, but not during a pandemic with a 99% survival rate? 2020, you don't make any sense to me.
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4 years
I cannot wait for the day I never have to type or read, "COVID-19" again.
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5 years
March Madness!!! Perkins upsets Bellevue 63-59!! Wow!!
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Jake Furr
4 years
BREAKING: After 36 seasons, Ontario boys basketball coach Joe Balogh will step down from his position. Balogh leaves with a 598-227 record with 21 league championships, 21 sectional titles, eight district championships and one regional title (1995). Thanks for everything, Joe B!
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3 years
OHSAA Member Schools will vote to allow high school athletes to sign Name, Imagine and Like was endorsement deals as long as they don’t use their teams, schools and/or OHSAA logos. We could be entering a new age in HS sports if this passes.
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4 years
STATE CHAMPS!!!!!!!!! @madramladysocr
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5 years
TOUCHDOWN TYGERS!!!!! Mansfield Senior beats Aurora 27-21 and will play for a state title!!!!!
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Jake Furr
3 years
What a moment!!! Mason Simmons, the team manager for four years, drills a 3 on senior night! Amazing!! @scsathletics1 @WhippetsShelby
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Jake Furr
4 years
BREAKING: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted announce nothing regarding sports. Absolutely nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. An absolute freaking joke. They want to wait until closer to the date when contact sports are scheduled to start to make a decision. 🤦🏻
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4 years
Working on possibly the most important series of stories I've ever done. I've talked with four high school athletes about the mental challenges of being a high school athlete today. Never have I believed more than now that high school athletics need to be played!
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4 years
FIANL!!!! @madramladysocr are your Division II state champions!!!!!!!! They beat Granville 2-1!!
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Jake Furr
5 years
Cubs force a TO on downs!!! Ladies and gentlemen!! Your Lucas Cubs are playing for a Division VII State Title!!!!! Final score: Lucas 15, Harvest Prep 12!!
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Jake Furr
4 years
Last night's announcement was stunning. The OHSAA voted out @Jerry_Snodgrass , and here is why I think that is not only a loss for the OHSAA, but a loss for all of high school sports! My column:
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5 years
Incredibly thankful to all the people who allowed me to tell their stories in 2018! If it weren’t for you all, I wouldn’t love my job as much as I do! #njhss
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4 years
Just a side note: If you get kicked out of a high school sporting event as a fan in the stands, you should need to take an anger management class before you are allowed to attend another event. No excuse.
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3 years
A super huge congrats to @taylorrhufff for having her No. 13 jersey number retired this evening! An incredible high school career and very much deserved! Proud to have been a small part of it!
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Can’t say I’m surprised! Congrats @taylorrhufff !!
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These guys right here are our 42nd annual @MansfieldNJ All-Star Classic class of 2020. Due to the pandemic, they will not get the chance to play one final game in front of their family and friends for charity. They deserve to be honored! @notthefakeSVP please help! #SeniorNight
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2020, man. Prayers up for @RileyGossom12 . Praying for a speedy recovery. May you come back even stronger, buddy! You need anything, ever, you have my number!
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The only thing that matters is giving these kids a season. Athletic Directors will happily do the stressful, tough work. Coaches will give everything they have. The ONLY thing that matters is providing these kids with an opportunity to play. 6 games, 100 games. It doesn’t matter.
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4 years
Sooooo, the fate of high school sports in Ohio remains in the air. This lack of leadership is incredible. Seriously, I just want to know a decision so I know if I need to find another job or not.
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Apparently, being a softball player is not feminine. On the contrary, in my opinion, being a softball player is one of the ultimate form of feminism! What better way to show your power as a female than to blow a pitch by a batter and leave them looking silly?! People are morons.
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Lucas, Ohio!!! You have a Division III state long jump champion! @shelbygrover22 wins her first state championship! Congrats kid!
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My advice: ADs, have Senior night as soon as possible. Who knows if you will get another chance. Parents of those seniors, be happy your Senior will have a Senior night no matter when it is. Cherish the moment because there will be some across the state that won’t have one.
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They are doing something right in Madison. Last night, @taylorrhufff made a play she thought was a foul. No call by the ref, but Huff believed it was a foul on her part so she made things right. Love what I am seeing!! @madramladysocr @Jerry_Snodgrass @OHSAASports
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Here is a challenge to all you parents and fans who are forcing officials and coaches to give up something they love by being over barring and insane: It is time to be better. Jake's Take | Challenge issued: It is time to be better as fans and as people
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7 years
Final: Lexington Minutemen 65, Bay 64! Lex is off to state!!!!! #njhss
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5 years
Ballgame!! Grant Hiatt with the Putback wins it for Shelby! What a game, what a game, what a game!!! 63-61 is your final!
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Jake Furr
3 years
Just finished up my dad’s Christmas present! A homemade dice baseball game with the Yankees (his favorite team) against the Indians (my favorite team).
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4 years
My best wishes are with @Jerry_Snodgrass and his family. I know for a fact this was not a voluntary event. OHSAA will stand with a big black eye for a very long time with this decision.
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Jake Furr
6 years
Your individual state champ!!!! Kyle Johnston of @LexingtonAD !!! #njhss
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5 years
Tyger Legend. @GroseAngelo
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Clear Fork’s own @zac_bigz16 on @SportsCenter live this morning!! Nice job on the interview big dog! Keep making The Valley proud!!
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5 years
That it!!! Cubs win ur 47-45!!!! On to the Elite 8!!!
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1 year
BALLGAME!! Your Ontario Warriors are headed to the state championship game with a 2-1 win over Washington Court House! They will play Kenston at 4 pm tomorrow for the title!
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2 years
Today, heaven gained an amazing angel. My mother-in-law Terry (Carnahan) Schwab passed away after a long and courageous battle with cancer. She fought until she couldn’t fight and then fought some more teaching many lessons along the way. She will forever be missed.
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And there it is!! @griffin_shaver drills a 3 to give the Warriors a 41-39 lead for his 1,000th career point! Just the fifth Warrior in program history!
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5 years
Heck of a season for the @TYger_Football !! 13-2, Division III state runners-up. Richland County is super proud!! Way to go fellas!!
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4 years
If you need photo proof as to how much @Jerry_Snodgrass devoted his time and energy to high school student-athletes, I got you covered. What a huge L for high school sports thanks to the OHSAA Board of Directors.
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Ladies and gentlemen, your 2022 Mansfield News Journal All-Stars!!
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3 years
BREAKING: Former Ashland and Ontario football coach Scott Valentine has been named the next football coach at Madison. Christmas has come early for the Rams!! via @MansfieldNJ
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Jake Furr
5 years
Keep talking while I keep working hard to promote young athletes and telling their stories providing them a positive light in a dark world. That’s what I, as a writer at the Mansfield News Journal, offer to the community.
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5 years
GOAL!!!!!!!! Ashley Bechtel wins it for Madison!!! Wow!!! Lady Rams to the state final!!!! Bechtel scores with 10:47 left in the game! Incredible! @madramladysocr
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Willard High School, I love you! Letting senior students come watch their classmates and cheer them on! What a great step in the right direction!
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Willard City Schools
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1st come/1st serve ~ starting tomorrow we will have 60 pre-sale tickets available for this Friday's Boys basketball game vs Huron (2/12) & Saturday's Girls game vs Hilliard Darby (2/13) for SENIOR STUDENTS ONLY. Balcony seating - $6 each! See Mrs. Daub to get your ticket ⚡️🏀⚡️
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Jake Furr
4 years
Here are the renderings for the new Shelby Athletic Facility that will go up for a vote next month. Go Google Earth search Skiles Field and tell me this isn't worth a 'yes' vote. With the money that was saved on the new Pre-K-8 building's interest rate, this is basically free.
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4 years
I will say about this whole 15% attendance thing: ADs are going to have NOOOO problem finding people to be on the chain gang this year! 🤣
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5 years
Clayton Miller at the buzzer!!!!!!!!! Big Red wins it 59-58!!!!!
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5 years
That is gonna do it!! The Shelby Lady Whippets knock off the previously undefeated Bellevue Lady Red 56-43!!!
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Jake Furr
4 years
Congrats to @TimHenige on his 400th career win as the junior varsity coach of the Ontario Warriors. While 400 is amazing, what is most impressive is his dedication to the program! Great coach and a great person with an even better family! Congrats! @SchoolsOntario @ont_athletics
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Jake Furr
5 years
Seriously so tired of all the parents complaining about the MNJ Player of the Week polls. If their kid isn’t winning, then it is unfair even though they have the same opportunities to vote as everyone else. The kids being nominated is an honor in itself. Considering dropping it.
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4 years
I gotta say, kudos to the MOAC for bringing Lucas in. Cubs were in a difficult position as an independent and the MOAC and its coaches and admins really helped provide what will be an exciting season! Class all the way!
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Jake Furr
2 years
BREAKING: Doug Geiser was introduced today as the 15th head football coach in Ashland University program history. He takes over for Lee Owens and was on Owens's staff since 2004. Photo via Tom Puskar/Ashland Times Gazette.
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4 years
A 10 p.m. curfew? Better hope none of these high school basketball games goes into overtime!
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5 years
BREAKING: @GroseAngelo of @TYger_Football is your 2019 Division III Defensive Player of the Year!!
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Jake Furr
2 years
The press box at Copeland Field at Niss Stadium will forever be known as The Eric Grove Press Box in honor of the Voice of the Warriors and my late good friend, Eric Grove! What a tremendous honor. Grover would be proud! Photo via @TimHenige .
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BREAKING: Edison senior @Bradybarnett17 is the Division III 138-pound @OHSAASports Individual Wrestling State Tournament Champion! #nrhss
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Jake Furr
4 years
BREAKING: The OHSAA has communicated to member schools about the remainder of the basketball season. Teams can play two games in one day (no more than 8 quarters per player) and can play regular season games through the end of the tournament (3/13 for girls, 3/20 for boys).
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Every single ounce of my prayers and thoughts are with the family of Chuck Ridenour. I’m so sorry for your loss. The sports journalism world, and the world in general, is never going to be the same. Rest easy my friend.
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A huge congrats to @griffin_shaver on becoming the fifth Warrior in program history to score 1,000 career points! @ont_athletics
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Jake Furr
3 years
Congrats to the @colonelcrawford Eagles and @CoachSheldon_CC on an amazing Elite 8 run! History was made this season! Thank you all for a wonderful ride!
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Wow. What a punch in the gut. Just learned @egrove_004 passed away today. Grover was one of the absolute best people you could ever know. Always a joy to talk to and loved everything Ontario athletics. The voice of the Warriors. Rest easy my friend. Man. This one hurts.
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State runner up trophy coming home to Ontario! Who woulda thought?!
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This is some sort of joke right? How does the 5th leading scorer, leading 3-point shooter (doubled No. 2), 4th in steals, 8th in BLKS in the league not get 1st team?! Undefeated League champs, No. 1 team in the state, 1st team All-District, yet 2nd team. Embarrassing for MOAC.
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5 years
Tygers win!!!! Angelo Grose scores from 5 yards out to win it 15-9!!! Tygers are going to state!!
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2 years
🤯 Shelby’s new baseball turf is coming along! Can’t lie, the Whippets around home is so sharp! 🤯
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3 years
What a season! Be proud @LadyWhippetGBK
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4 years
I am not sure I have ever felt so happy for the high school athletes as I do right now. All signs point to these kids at least having a season. Limited spectators and restrictions, but hey, take what you can get. It is all about these kids anyway!
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Ontario finishes the season 17-15 and the Division II state runners up. If that doesn’t tell you how much heart these boys have, I don’t know what will. Congrats on one hell of a season Warriors! You made all of Richland County proud!
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4 years
. @madramladysocr will play for a state championship for the second year in a row!!
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Ladies and gentlemen, your News Journal All-Star Classic Class of 2021!!
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Not all heroes wear capes. but one wears a No. 61 @CFColtsFB Jersey! Shout out to Zac Clark who saved a man's life by lifting a car off his chest which had falled off the jack stands! Awesome job!! @HSCFVLS @SouthBrennan @aj3blubaugh
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Jake Furr
4 years
Where is the fast-forward button to the end of this pandemic?
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Jake Furr
4 years
I swear, if politics comes up at Thanksgiving, I’m moving to the kids table and talking to my nephew about which monkey fell off the bed and bumped his head. Seems like a more intelligent conversation anyway.
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Lexington Board of Education has approved the hiring of 2020 Lex grad Gabby Stover to be the next head girls basketball coach. Stover led Lex to the 2019-20 Ohio Cardinal Conference championship as a player winning league POY honors. She is the fourth HC in four years for Lex.
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So let’s say the fall season for contact sports has to be completely overhauled. Let’s just have Richland County schools play each other, multiple times if need be, just so we give these kids a season. Short travel, less exposure, less spread, competition for all. Win win.
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Jake Furr
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Beyond humbled and proud to be mentioned alongside @McMotorsport who has been my mentor throughout my entire career and someone I look up to and will continue to look up to as long as I am in this business!
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Jake Furr
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BREAKING: @GroseAngelo has been named the 2019 @OCC_Sports Defensive Player of the Year!! @TYger_Football
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4 years
Your MVP, South Central David Lamoreaux!!
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7 years
In my latest column, I have a message for parents of high school athletes as well as what one coach went through this season. Jake's Take: Stop bashing kids' coaches on social media via @mansfieldNJ
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The @S_C_Athletics Trojans were so gracious in their loss to Lucas that it deserved its own story. @brettseidel3 is doing things right over there in Greenwich and every Trojan fan should be proud! Here is my story! via @mansfieldNJ
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The @PrideBigRed are determined to never let their teammate be forgotten. This season, the Big Red are using a heavy heart to put up a successful season. Here is the story! A Season for Patty: Big Red honoring fallen teammate
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3 years
Oh hey, the NBA is back. Can’t wait to not watch a single game again this year.
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6 years
One year ago today, I joined the @MansfieldNJ as a sports reporter. It had always been my dream job since I was a kid and I’m proud to be a part of a great group of reporters and proud to write about the great athletes in the area! Here’s to many more years!!
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Four years ago today, I started at the News Journal. The countless athletes and coaches I have built relationships with are ones I will cherish for the rest of my life! Cannot wait for the next 40!
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BREAKING: Clear Fork head softball coach Jeff Gottfried announced he will be stepping down. Gottfried steps away after 21 years where he went 448-139 with 11 league, 19 sectional, five district and three regional championships. One heck of a career, Gotti! It was an honor!
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It was the most shocking news I've heard in a long time. My buddy Eric Grove passed away over the weekend. Here is my tribute to one of the greatest human beings of our lifetime.
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4 years
Gotta say, I really like Texas right now!
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Gov. Greg Abbott
4 years
NEW: Issuing an executive order to lift the mask mandate and open Texas to 100 percent.
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Just heard a Mansfield Senior fan yell, “Hey Tygers, we are still proud of you!” Yes we sure are!!
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Mr. Football 2018!
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Ohio State Football
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🚫▪️ He's been a playmaker during fall camp. @cstov8 got his stripe off today‼️ #GoBucks #ToughLove
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BREAKING: @TYger_Football 's @GroseAngelo is the 2019 Division III Northwest District Defensive Player of the Year and the district's nominee for the 2019 Ohio Mr. Football Award!
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5 years
JOSH BEEBE!!!!! Big Red win it 47-46! First tourney win since 2014-15!!!
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Jake Furr
5 years
Sitting at Progressive field and a bag of popcorn blew off of a concession stand. Workers didn’t see it. Lady picked it up and walked off with it. Seconds later, another blew off. Again, workers didn’t see. A child picks it up and puts it back. Faith in humanity restored.
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