JH LCT underway; LCT will start Monday
It’s mid January, and county basketball is in the air as the 2023 LeFlore County Junior High Basketball Tournament started Monday and will end with Saturday night’s finals.
The 2023 LeFlore County Basketball Tournament will begin Monday, with Sports Editor Tom Firme’s LCT Guide publishing in Saturday’s edition.
I’ll be helping Tom out today and Wednesday at the JH LCT, and likely will help him out the following week with covering sites in the LCT.
What can I say — it’s just like ol’ times. To say I got emotionally shocked on Sunday afternoon was an understatement.
I got word while eating lunch that my 96-year-old mother was involved in a single-car accident in her hometown of Enid.
She actually admitted to me later that she was a bit wobbly-feeling that morning, but since she could see — and she thought her wobbliness would improve — she went on to her church, which she hates to miss.
She actually made it to church, went to the Enid Post Office to mail a couple of letters and went to Subway to get her a footlong sub, so that she would have one half for lunch and the other half for dinner that night.
However, when she pulled out of the parking lot and onto one of Enid’s busiest streets in the area, she thinks she blacked out. Long story short, instead of turning onto the street, she went basically straight across the street and into the drainage ditch along the street.
While the car was totaled, she herself is fine, but suffered soreness Sunday night and Monday.
I thank God she had no broken bones and, like her, was thankful for no oncoming traffic from either direction.
The emergency room doctor at Enid’s St. Mary’s Hospital strongly urged her to have someone stay with her, but she told everyone that she would be fine — being the stubborn ol’ gal she is.
I think she will be fine, but she has made the decision to not ever drive again. What a week for the National Football League. All the outpouring of prayers for Buffalo Bills safety Demar Hamlin was overwhelming.
I know the NFL augmented a bit of the AFC playoffs since the Buffalo-Cincinnati game, in which Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest and was rushed to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center for treatment, will not be resumed, but Hamlin’s recovery is far more important than whether Buffalo or Cincinnati will have to visit Kansas City for a playoff game.
Speaking of the playoffs themselves, I think both conferences are wide open to determine its respective Super Bowl representative next month. I for one wouldn’t mind a Buffalo-Dallas or a Buffalo-Minnesota matchup — the former due to liking the Cowboys and wanting to see the Bills win a Super Bowl after all those Jim Kelly-Thurman Thomas Bills’ teams could never get that big one, and the latter match-up since it would guaranteed a new team winning a Super Bowl title.
Of course, you could stick Cincinnati in place of Buffalo and I’d give you the same reasons as for the Bills.
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Seeley is the editor of The Poteau Daily News.
He can be reached by telephone at (918) 647-3188, Ext. 30 or by e-mail at editor@poteaudailynews. com. By the time you’re reading this column, we will know who won the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. I’m hoping it was Texas Christian University.