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Lion Tales: Bye Week

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Full disclosure, though I enjoy my part-time sports blogging persona coupled with being an actual NCAA men’s basketball coach, my biggest paycheck each month comes from being a high school teacher in a small, poverty-stricken Midwestern city.

And while I take a moment to lecture all of you BSD readers about history once a week, my actual discipline is English, specifically advanced composition, speech, and literature.

There are hints of my personality scattered about my classroom. Posters of my favorite bands, Pearl Jam and Dawes. Pictures of my son and me on adventures, including one on my desk of us at the 2023 Rose Bowl.