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It’s just coincidence that clueless and Cluley start with the same three letters because Cluley was born to be a coach. Or at least trained to be one. And not just by his father, Joe, who led the Coyotes from 1990-91 and made the playoffs once.
“Inspiration-wise it was my dad but also my mom (Lindsay Cluley),” Cluley said. “She wasn’t the coach but was the greatest coaching wife in the world. She’s the one who took me to all the Old High games.
Cluley came back to Wichita Falls to work as a coach under Jayson Lavender. Then when Lavender left, Cluley stayed to work for Russell, who’d made his name as a coach on defense. Cluley would have understood Russell bringing in his own defensive coordinator, or calling the defense himself, but Russell saw something and...
Cluley’s last year with the Coyotes was a 1-9 finish, and Old High wasn’t going to promote a “1-9 coordinator” so his path moved to Lubbock. But it’s worked out for the best.
“I felt like at Old High we were the best 1-9 team; we would be in the game and just lose but it didn’t really feel like it was 1-9,” Cluley said.
Now he’s the head coach of the District 2-4A Division II favorites, who will visit Wichita Falls to play the Coyotes on Sept. 28.
“I love Wichita Falls and other than Game 5 this year, I’ll be rooting for them,” Cluley said. “We had those seventh-graders at Barwise and I want them to be successful, they’re great kids.
Cluley will have Cody Robinson as his defensive coordinator and James Vint as his offensive coordinator.
“Cody is going to be special and I’ve given him the reigns,” Cluley said. “He was at Tyler Lee, a 6A school, and won a championship at Gilmer.
Alan Haire is the head coach who gave Cluley his start and another one he said helped shape his career. Cluley has always been one better at giving credit rather than taking it. I don’t expect that to change now that he’s the boss.
Lubbbock Estacado has a Wichita Falls’ feel with Cluley and Tony Wagner (Rider) as head coaches. Once in a while, like Week 5 this year they become a rival, but there’s a lot of Raiders and Coyotes who the rest of the time are no doubt proud of what one of our own is accomplishing.
Many Wichitans go to Lubbock once in a while for high school or college events. Cluley was asked for three eating recommendations in his new home.
2) Spanky’s, which advertises itself as the best burger place in Lubbock. “You have to get the mozzarella sticks,” Cluley added.
There’s not a major sports theme with coach Cluley’s play list. He was asked to name a top three.
1) My Little Pony. “I can sing every bit of My Little Pony” I think so that’s on in the car a lot.
It was a good haul overall for Davis, a cross country and track powerhouse the last two decades.
Davis won the girls 400 relay in a school-record 47.39 seconds from Julia Curtis, Tessa Malone and sisters Paige and Brooke Rubinstein.
Maddy Denner of Oak Ridge won the girls 1,600 in 4:49.84, beating Olivia O’Keeffe of Davis (4:54.74), and was second in the 3,200 in 10:15.18 to sister Elana (10:14.99).
For the boys, James Hampton of Pleasant Grove won the 100 in 10.88; David Phillips of Dixon the 200 in 21.99; Myles Ellis of Antelope the 400 in 47.22; Xavier Weaver of Franklin the 800 in 1:53.02, just ahead of Joe Cruz of McClatchy (1:53.82); and Cosumnes Oaks the 1,600 relay in 3:20.10 as anchor man Julian Johnson-M...
Jake Grimsman of Vista del Lago won the high jump at 6 feet, 9 inches and Parker Jenks of Marysville took down the shot put at 54-11.
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Softball – Mary Jo Truesdale won her first section Division I championship at Sheldon in 2002. She won her eighth title – and third in a row – on Friday night in Stockton as the Huskies beat Tracy 6-0 to cap a dominating playoff run and 30-2 season. Sheldon will finish as the No. 1-ranked team in Northern California by...
Taliyah Miles tossed a three-hitter with eight strikeouts, and Maci Fines won her third title and collected a milestone. The infield star headed to UC Santa Barbara had her 200th career hit in the first inning on a bunt, and her final hit was a home run to make it 2-0.
In other title games including local teams on Friday: Napa beat Del Campo 9-8 in D-II and Argonaut beat Woodland Christian 3-1 in D-VI.
Baseball – Capital Christian will go for its fifth consecutive D-V championship on Monday when it faces top-seeded Escalon at Zupo Field in Lodi. The second-seeded Cougars (24-6) have been led offensively by freshman Vinnie Bachelier, who is batting .488 with 27 RBIs, and junior Brett Graber (.433, 25), as well as pitc...
Elk Grove goes for a section D-I three-peat when it plays Tracy in a rematch of last season’s title game in a best-of-three series starting Friday at Sacramento City College.
Elk Grove beat Delta League rival Davis 9-6 to win its 10th D-I North title since 2002, despite two RBIs each by Griffin Duisenberg and John Lagattuta, the Delta League Player of the Year.
Why isn't Hisham Matar angrier? In 1990, when he was a student in London, his father - a Libyan dissident living in Cairo - was kidnapped, taken back to Tripoli, imprisoned, tortured. He smuggled several letters out from Abu Saleem jail detailing his treatment, but there has been no word since 1995. The not-knowing mus...
Matar, whose first novel is being touted as the literary event of the summer, suggests meeting in Holland Park, on the western fringe of central London. No doubt this is a way of keeping me out of the rented flat he shares with his American-born photographer wife, but it's appropriate, too. He often walks here in the m...
The novel that has so excited the critics draws on Matar's troubled childhood in Libya, yet draws away from it too. I find his calmness about his kidnapped father strange, and can't stop nagging away at it. Why not go back to Libya, where supposedly long-closed doors are creaking open, look for him, try to find out wha...
There is anger, of course, when you prod. He calls the vacancy in his life "torturous". "You don't know the fate of this person that is central to your life. Your horizon continues to drop. In the beginning you want justice, but then you want to see him, to speak with him. Later, you don't even want that - you just wan...
In 2003 Matar wrote a moving piece for Amnesty International about the effect his father's disappearance had on him and his mother and elder brother, who still live in Cairo. Earlier this month he appeared alongside Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard in a high-profile Human Rights Watch event at the Royal Court. He does no...
"I would have liked to write a book that had nothing to do with politics," he says. "I think ultimately I am a sensualist and an aesthete. I'm not really interested in politics, but politics was part of the canvas. I had to say something about it, otherwise all the different forces that are shaping these characters wou...
Matar is fascinated by the way people escape the "grand narratives" that encase them - country, religion, family, heritage. The boy in the novel, Suleiman, is sent to Egypt by his parents when he is nine so he can avoid military service later; the book's author also left Libya at nine, when his father's name appeared o...
The links between character and author - both were born in 1970, both have to make their life as exiles - are clear, but Matar insists the book is more than autobiography. "Suleiman and I are different in many ways," he says. "The fact that he's an only child is very important. He's got this internal monologue going on...
"What I used was the perspective of the child. The landscape is very familiar to me, and also that time in the 1970s. When I was that age, it was very subtle. I sensed there were some things you could not say. You'd be sitting around the dining table and one of your uncles would say something and everyone would fall si...
Another key difference is that Suleiman's father is active in the political underground in Libya, whereas Matar's wasn't. A former diplomat - Matar was born in New York when his father was working for the Libyan mission to the UN - he was targeted simply because he was a middle-class intellectual and successful busines...
Matar has not been back to Libya since 1979. He describes the book as in part a "love ode" to his childhood home, but says that world has now vanished. He lived with his family in Egypt until he was 15, then came to boarding school in Britain - a western education was de rigueur among his class. He studied architecture...
"The poems I was writing were becoming more and more interested in narrative and telling stories," he says. "I started writing what I thought was a poem but that ended up as a scene in the book where Suleiman is picking mulberries. I felt the structure of the poem was restricting me and I wrote it out as prose." The no...
"The romantic idea of the penniless writer is false," he says. "It's terrible. I hated being in debt, I hated the anxiety of not knowing whether we could pay our rent that month. Thankfully, I had a wife who was very supportive and had faith and shared my madness. I got the call from my agent [to say Penguin had bought...
While it is dangerous to seek symmetries between life and art, it is impossible to resist one connection. Suleiman finds a sort of peace in Cairo; evades the pain of exile. "What was astonishing is how free I came to feel from Libya," says the character in the book when his rite of passage is complete. "Nationalism is ...
His creator evidently feels the same. He is in flight from so many places that he feels no separation; is at home in London, a city of happy, hedonistic exiles. "My ability, as soon as the aeroplane lands in a city I've never been in before, to imagine having been born there and dying there is bizarre," he says. "It's ...
“Salinger,” Shane Salerno‘s long-awaited documentary about reclusive author J.D. Salinger, got off to a strong start at the specialty box office.
The Weinstein Company opened it in two theaters in New York and two in Los Angeles, and it brought in $90,969 for a $22,742 per-theater average. That was the best opening among a slew of small films that were released seeking to capitalize as Hollywood’s summer blockbusters faded, and TWC plans to expand it into around...
TWC had hoped to release “Salinger” prior to the release of the Salerno’s nine-years-in-the-making book of the same name, but it wasn’t completed in time. That may actually have helped, as the docu has received a ton of publicity following its premiere in Telluride last weekend. Most of that centered on the movie’s exp...
“Winnie Mandela,” starring Jennifer Hudson as the wife of South African icon Nelson Mandela (Terrance Howard), took in a soft $2,174 per-theater average with $69,584 from 32 locations for RLJ Entertainment.
It’s the first of two films about the Mandelas scheduled to arrive in theaters this year. The Weinstein Company has set “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” which features British actors Idris Elba as Nelson and Naomie Harris as Winnie, for Nov. 29.
It was a busy weekend for TWC at the specialty box office. It also opened the French romantic comedy “Populaire” – about competitive speed typing – and it brought in $16,662 from three theaters for a $5,554 per-locations average.
“Good Old Freda,” Magnolia Pictures’ documentary in which Freda Kelly looks back at her career as lifelong secretary for The Beatles, took in $8,000 from a single theaters in New York.
Magnolia also rolled out “Touchy Feely,” about a massage therapist unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact, in two theaters. It took in $4,000.
Writer-director Lynn Shelton‘s R-rated comedy premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is her follow-up to last year’s “Your Sister’s Sister,” which also starred Rosemarie DeWitt.
Both the Magnolia releases were also available on video on demand.
“The Ultimate Life,” a faith-based drama from High Top Releasing, brought in $650,000 from 412 mainly Heartland theaters for a $1,578 per-screen average. It’s director Michael Landon Jr.’s follow-up to the “The Ultimate Gift” and stars Jason Bartholomew as a billionaire with questionable priorities who re-examines his ...
The powerhouse was designed by Ellis Lawrence, founder of the UO school of architecture.
(LANE COUNTY, Ore.) - The Leaburg Hydroelectric Project Historic District in Lane County is among Oregon's latest entries in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Leaburg Hydroelectric Project was put into service in January 1930 and continues to generate electric power as part of the Eugene Water & Electric Board system, a municipally owned utility located in Lane County, Oregon.
The system is a miniaturized gamma ray spectrometer, which means it can measure not only the intensity of radiation but also identify the type of radionuclide that is creating it.
(CORVALLIS, Ore. ) - Nuclear engineers at Oregon State University have developed a small, portable and inexpensive radiation detection device that should help people all over the world better understand the radiation around them, its type and intensity, and whether or not it poses a health risk.
With early treatment, sepsis can sometimes be successfully treated with antibiotics.
(CORVALLIS, Ore. ) - The National Science Foundation has just awarded $200,000 to engineers at Oregon State University who have developed a new technology that they believe could revolutionize the treatment and prevention of sepsis.
More commonly called “blood poisoning,” sepsis can quickly turn a modest infection into a whole-body inflammation, based on a dysfunctional immune response to endotoxins that are released from the cell walls of bacteria. When severe, this can lead to multiple organ failure and death.
“Integration is where the future of public health is headed,” said Tammy Bray, dean of the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.
(CORVALLIS, Ore. ) - Oregon State University’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences was granted accreditation on Tuesday, making it the first school of public health in Oregon to earn that recognition.
The accreditation, from the Council on Education for Public Health, means OSU has the only accredited school of public health between San Francisco and Seattle.
(CORVALLIS, Ore. ) - Researchers have determined that a copper compound known for decades may form the basis for a therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
In a new study just published in the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists from Australia, the United States (Oregon), and the United Kingdom showed in laboratory animal tests that oral intake of this compound significantly extended the lifespan and improved the locomotor function of transgenic mice that are genetically ...
PEMBROKE PINES, FLA. (WSVN) - Stanley Gold knows his days of being able to properly see are numbered.
The 88-year-old Korean War veteran is already 75 percent blind and wanted to experience what it’s like to use night-vision equipment before he completely loses his eyesight.
Gold reached out to Pembroke Pines Police, asking if he could be allowed to use their night-vision goggles.
Officers from the department’s SWAT team packed up their gear and visited Gold Wednesday night to make his dream come true.
“I’m a tall guy. I’m 6 foot 2 [inches], 198 [pounds] but I look like a peanut compared to them,” Gold said.
After letting him tinker with the goggles and taking some pictures with his family, officers had to get back to work.
But before they left, Gold gave them each a Klondike bar as a gesture of thanks for their kindness.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Fresh looting broke out on the streets of Haiti's capital yesterday as protestors called for a two-day general strike despite the Government's climbdown over controversial fuel price hikes.
Facing unrest that has now left at least three dead, leaders of the Caribbean country suspended the price spikes “until further notice” — but the about-face has failed to quell the anger of residents.
In the heart of Port-au-Prince, AFP journalists saw shops ransacked as protestors, some armed with knives, were met by police who fired weapons into the air and detonated tear gas.
Many Haitians are now demanding the immediate departure of President Jovenel Moise and calling for a two-day general strike to begin today.
“If the president stays one more day the game will take on a new appearance; we will cut off the roads and burn everything, because we have nothing else to lose,” said one masked protestor.
Moise had urged demonstrators late Saturday to “go home”, saying the price hike suspension had “corrected what had to be corrected”.
The televised speech disappointed much of the population and the political class: “We were expecting another type of speech — a serene analysis of the situation that has prevailed in the country in the last two days and caused so much loss of life and materials,” lawmaker Jerry Tardieu told AFP.
The renewed violence follows two days of paralysis in the city, sparked Friday by a Government announcement that gasoline prices would rise by 38 per cent, diesel by 47 per cent, and kerosene by 51 per cent starting on the weekend.
Airlines including Air France and American Airlines cancelled several Sunday morning flights, with additional cancellations possible into the afternoon over staffing shortages.
In announcing the suspension of the price hikes, Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant emphasised that “violence and democracy are fundamentally incompatible”.
Even before the fuel price controversy, deputies had already begun a debate on his future, and Saturday's U-turn could lead to the government's fall.
On Friday night, the bodyguard of an Opposition party politician died in an altercation with demonstrators in central Port-au-Prince, as he attempted to get through a roadblock. His body was then burned in the road.
On Saturday afternoon, an AFP journalist saw a young man who had been shot dead.
Parliamentary discussions are under way to determine the next steps aimed at calming the crisis, with some elected officials urging the immediate resignation of the prime minister.
As protests gained pace yesterday, one Haitian, Alphonse Charles, expressed both the frustration and the sense of fatalism felt by many of his countrymen.
Standing next to the remains of his torched car, near burned and looted shops, he laid blame on politicians but lamented that people had gotten “carried away”.
But “I have to go on living,” he added. “We will not get carried away just for that”.
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Rain showers early becoming a steady light rain overnight. Thunder possible. Low 46F. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 60%..
Rain showers early becoming a steady light rain overnight. Thunder possible. Low 46F. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
When the spring and summer months finally arrive, several species of wild animals come out of hibernation or hiding for the season. This is when home owners start to notice signs of pest problems and wild animal presence on their properties. Although warmer weather brings on a whole new arena of wild animal invasion an...
The truth is, there are various species of wildlife that can still pose a threat to our properties in the fall and winter months. It is recommended to learn how to animal-proof your property and inspect your home for animal invasion; such as bats, raccoons, squirrels, opossums, skunks, and even snakes. Continue reading...
One of the best approaches to home protection from wild animals is preventative maintenance. There are so many things that attract raccoons, bats, and other pests to a home or backyard. For example, food and shelter are the number one reasons wild animals invade our areas. They need a place to feed, breed, and hibernat...
Winter pest control can be manageable if these strategies and preventative maintenance are implemented regularly. It is especially important for home owners that live near wooded areas to take these preventative maintenance tips seriously. Raccoons, bats, and other wildlife are smarter than we think when it comes to fi...
It is vital to stop animal intrusions before they begin. As soon as you are aware wild animals are visiting your property, call an animal control specialist for advice and possible service. If you believe there may already be raccoons or bats in the attic, have a licensed animal control company facilitate an inspection...
Marshall Chapman claimed her spot on the Spartanburg Music Trail in a ceremony Wednesday afternoon.
Her sign on the trail is at the corner of Liberty and Saint John streets, across from the Chapman Cultural Center. The other side of the sign features The Sparkletones.

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