Rick Thompson
Rick Thompson
Richard "Rick" Thompsonis a former Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 17th District since 2000. He served as Speaker of the House from January 2007 to June 2013. He earlier served as a Delegate from 1981 through 1983. He unsuccessfully ran for Governor of West Virginia in 2011, coming in second place behind acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin. Thompson resigned from the House of Delegates in June 2013 after being appointed by Tomblin to serve...
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It's an important message to our scouts ? this isn't just a project where the end result isn't known. When they see that people are there with shopping carts or picking up boxes to go to churches, they know why they're there.
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It was another tough game. At times it looked like a football game, with the big swings in momentum. Heather Olsen played with the flu and Liz Roberts had a sore hip, but they both gave 100 percent. And all the seniors provided leadership and gave their all.
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We have that all the time, kids following their brothers, dads, uncles and cousins at Boone. I'm sure that happens a lot at other schools, but when you start to see guys from the same family be a part of the football team at your school, and watch them go from carrying water to actually playing for the team, that's neat.
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Miles Davis and James Brown. We heard a lot about that one. I don't care what their name is, I just want them to play good football. And those guys did.
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Of course, people are going to notice a recognizable name. And people will kid you about it, like our tailbacks a few years ago.
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Of course, people are going to notice a recognizable name, ... And people will kid you about it, like our tailbacks a few years ago.
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We want to make things available to our fans whenever we can. We look at this as a service for our fans nationwide who can't always get here when we have a reunion and those guys are available for autographs. We'd like to do more of this to facilitate our fans everywhere.
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We kept really good pressure on Sentinel the whole game. Our defense was tough.
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We only lost five. But they had been playing together since they were freshmen. We're still working on our strengths and trying to find the right replacements. The girls were a little tenuous at first, but they started doing well and making some good pass combinations.
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We've been working hard the last three weeks on conditioning. We've got a good base and now we want to start putting things together.
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The first game should help to measure how we'll be this season. I'm hoping we'll see some good leadership from the upperclassmen.