Archive for November, 2008
For Tennessee, Progress is in the Risk
By Christopher Gabriel, CGabriel.com The Phillip Fulmer Era at the University of Tennessee has ended. The final statement in his long tenure on the Vols sideline was a 28-10 win over Kentucky. After several Gatorade showers, a brief interview on ESPN and lots of hugs, smiles and a few tears, he was carried off the field by his players while clutching [...]
Giving Thanks Shouldn’t Be So Hard
By Christopher Gabriel, CGabriel.com Every year in late November families and friends gather to eat, watch football, eat a little more and watch even more football. It happens on a Thursday, usually early in the afternoon. Sometimes there’s wine and other assorted alcoholic beverages to go with the food. Other times it’s simply water and [...]
A Night at the High School Musical
I went to high school in the mid-1970′s just outside of Philadelphia. Our school was known for exceptional academics and strong sports teams. The arts? We had a decent choral group and the orchestra was passable. Oh, and there was the theatre department. Calling it an actual department may be an overstatement. Our school put on two shows every [...]
Phillip Fulmer: A Man for Too Many Seasons
By Christopher Gabriel, CGabriel.com It’s deer hunting season here in Minnesota. The first shot was fired sometime around dawn on Saturday, November 8. More than 500,000 hunters go after deer annually throughout the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Similarly, the first shots already have been fired in the annual college football coach hunting season. The major heads on the [...]
In Barack We Trust
By Christopher Gabriel, CGabriel.com Adoring crowds, people overcome with tears of joy, Hollywood’s best clamoring to feel important and Oprah “unleashed” – all of this in the name of one man: Sean Hannity. No, not Hannity. I speak of Barack Obama. Rather, President-elect Barack Obama. In a campaign Obama seemed to use the word “change” 37,263 times, we’ll [...]
