by The Observer Staff | Dec 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
By D Mark Mitchell Sports Editor The Opelika Bulldogs dream season ended last Friday night at Jordan-Hare Stadium against Hoover. The Bucs won 31-0 in front of a Super 6 record crowd of almost 30,000. Thinking about this year’s Bulldog team made me decide to write a...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 14, 2012 | Column
Years ago, it was the grey building known as ‘Charlie’s Fundrinkery.’ Then, if memory serves, it was a pet store for a brief amount of time. But, to me, the now vacant, lonely green building on Samford Avenue in Opelika will always be only one thing to me: the site of...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 14, 2012 | Column
According to Wikipedia, “in the catbird seat” is a phrase used to describe someone in an enviable position, or someone who has an advantage, or the upper hand in all types of dealings. Red Barber, a popular baseball broadcaster in the 1940s, made the phrase famous by...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 14, 2012 | Column
A recent issue of the journal, Human Reproductions, reports that during the period 1989-2005, sperm count in young and middle-aged French men declined from 73.6 million per ml to 49.0 million per ml. A count of 55 million per ml is considered the threshold below which...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 14, 2012 | Column
An expense often overlooked is the wrapping of our Christmas gifts; often it seems that the wrapping costs more than the gift. During these times when we don’t know if we are going to fall off that fiscal cliff or not, we need to remember to save where we can. On...