Ascension Magazine

Sheriff Jeff Wiley Hosts Steak-Dinner Fundraiser

To the citizens of Ascension parish, first, let me thank you for all of your past support in helping me make the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office the model department that it is. Secondly, allow me to reassert my pledge to you that we will continue to be innovative and professional as we continue to move into the 21st century. More

The Tournament That Never Was
by Bill Delaune

In the movie “Hot Tub Time Machine”, four guys wake up after a crazy night of drinking in a hot tub which transports them back and forth from the present to the past.

Well, I had a similar experience recently when I went to sleep in the bathtub after celebrating Cinco de Mayo at Las Palmas on a night where the half-priced margaritas packed a bigger wallop than a Julio Chavez left hook.

The dream or vision or epiphany that followed mixed not only some elements of the present and past but also crossed over into my ill-fated announcing career, the old Gonzales Country Club and the now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t Jambalaya Golf Tournament that was revived a couple of years ago only to disappear again in 2010.

Obviously my recollections are foggy at best but basically it seemed that my two favorite play-by-play cohorts Lyall Boudreaux and Kevin Shillings were working this year’s Jambalaya Tourney at the old GCC and I was the roving reporter on the 9-hole course. Remember, at Gonzales there were only nine greens with two sets of tees for each hole to create an 18-hole tract.

Golfers-both living and deceased-were participating and they drifted in and out like a scene from Dickens’s “Christmas Carol”. The strange part about it was that a sports psychologist once suggested I hear the voice of a television commentator saying positive things during my pre-shot routine (as if I needed to hear any more voices in my head). But during this fantasy, I could hear TV announcers but one of them was me. More

THOUGHTS FROM BULLY: The APPLE Sometimes Falls Far From The TREE

This last month a FACEBOOK alert came to my computer announcing that Andrew Murphy is The 2010 High School Student of the Year. Well Hell. That young man is my Second Cousin.

A senior attending Captain Shreve High School, was maimed 2010 Captain Shreve High School Student of the Year by the school faculty, he was then named 2010 Caddo Parish Student of the Year by the Caddo Parish School Board, next he was named 2010 Northwest Louisiana Student of the Year covering 13 parishes and then he was named 2010 Louisiana High School Student of the Year.

WOW! What a great honor and achievement. I soon started thinking that his success may have been due to his blood line. Of course, he is kin to me, Bully.

As I researched his background I realized we had a lot in common and thought it would be fun to compare students with a span of 4 decades.

Lets start with photos and comparisons of photos identified as 1.

It is obvious we are kin. We are both good looking except he may have had better dental insurance.

In photo 2 Andrew is supporting that classic baseball photo pose and holding an alluminum bat. At one point this year he had a .513 batting average. I bet that bat had something to do with that and what bat is that? Does it have Al Kaline, Mickey Mantle or Carl Yazstremski burnt into the wood. I doubt it. It probably has Terminator 3, Ill be BAT, painted on it. More