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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Sunday, February 04, 2007

taking a chance on paradise

I teach a class in Advanced Reporting at UC. One of my former students, an Elder grad named Chris Hughes, just took a job at a paper on Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands. I couldnt be happier for him. Or more jealous. If I could do it all over, I'd take my first job in a place I want to live. There's plenty of time to settle down, get responsible and move up the career food chain. Live big while you can... on that note, I wrote for Sunday's paper about a bar on St. John, USVI, that has hosted a Super Bowl party for the last 17 years. When we went there four years ago, we promised one of the owners that the 1st year I didnt cover the game, we'd be at that bar watching it. That would be, um, today. I didnt figure my Super run of 19 years in a row would end this soon... nor, like most of us, did I really intend to watch the game at a bar on St. John, even though I couldnt think of any place I'd rather be today... the problem is, most of us don't have the guts to live our dreams, so they stay dreams. The carpet's all paid for. God bless the TV. The 2 guys who own Skinny Legs in Coral Bay, St. John, left the States all but broke. But they took a shot. They lived the dream. Now, look at them. Nothing risked, nothing gained. Live Big, Chris Hughes. Never stop taking risks.


10 Comments:

at 12:22 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

So the good boys and girls take the so called right track
Faded white hats
Grabbing credits
Maybe transfers
They read all the books but they can't find the answers
And all of our parents
They're getting older
I wonder if they've wished for anything better
While in their memories
Tiny tragedies

They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
But something's better
On the other side


Live big outside the lines...

 
at 7:44 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dude who wrote the poem definitely inhaled...

 
at 8:35 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

channeling Elton John's "Roy Rogers" Impressive

 
at 11:27 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

John Mayer song lyrics on this blog- nice touch.

 
at 10:24 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

John Mayer sucks.

 
at 10:58 AM Blogger Paul Daugherty said...

to 8:35... catching the Elton words. Impressive. Turn on the TV, shut out the lights...

 
at 4:00 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

10:24 AM

John M may be a bit of a tool, but the guy can play. Watched a "live" concert on DVD of him, pretty impressive.

 
at 1:32 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hate to break it to you, Paul, but your former student probably has to eat tuna from the can just like that poor UC student you wrote about last month. You eat cheap food when you're young and struggling. Tuna is actually healthy for you, or so I hear. Omega-3 fatty acids and such. Of course, it's 80 degrees warmer and sandy down in the Islands.

 
at 2:36 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

We have been to the been to BVI's a few times and we are heading down in two weeks. It is truly paradise. I'm jealous.

 
at 8:30 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Could you please pass the Tortolas?

 
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