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DES MOINES, Iowa — The Big Ten spent much of the year as a national punch line. It might get worse during bowl season. The Big Ten could only fill seven of its eight predetermined bowl slots — and each of those bowl-bound teams is currently an underdog. From the five-loss Wisconsin team that still wound up in the Rose Bowl to the 6-6 Purdue squad that fired its coach, the beleaguered Big Ten isn’t expected to do much of anything in the postseason. The league went just 1-6 in bowl games in 2008. According to odds makers, things could go even wor...
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — After two seasons as Notre Dame coach, Brian Kelly decided he wasn’t spending enough time doing the best part of his job: coaching players. Kelly changed that in 2012, and he shuffled his staff. Then, with Kelly more in tune to his team and the assistants in sync with the head coach, Notre Dame went from unranked to top-ranked. For leading the Fighting Irish to the BCS championship for the first time, Kelly was voted Associated Press college football coach of the year. “When you’re talking about the coach of the year, t...
NEW YORK — A nine-game winning streak has Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos on top of the AP Pro32 NFL power rankings for the first time. The latest win came on the road, 34-17 at Baltimore, and was impressive enough to lift the Broncos to No. 1 by three points over the San Francisco 49ers. AFC West champion Denver (11-3) and playoff-bound San Francisco each received six first-place votes Tuesday in balloting by The Associated Press’ panel of 12 media members who regularly cover the league. The Broncos outpointed the 49ers for first, 375...
The President of the United States has called for change in the wake of the latest school shooting in Newtown, Conn. He mentioned mental illness as one of the area’s that need to be considered. I humbly submit that we need to look at the health deficiencies created by the mass production food system of our world and the side effects of pharmaceuticals. You the consumer have the greatest power to prompt change … here are some facts. Nutritional deficiencies are linked to mental illness. Research has shown that major depression, bipolar dis...
Dear Newspaper Colleagues, I wanted to reach out the first moment I could to many of you, and journalists around the globe, who reached out to us at The Bee to send thoughts, prayers and asking how you can be of help to our community – especially those immediately impacted by the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook School. The outpouring of support has been, and continues to be overwhelming. But it has created opportunities for scams and legitimate organizations that are taking pass-through and/or processing expenses before delivering donations b...
My Nebraska Christmas tree Saying that the Pacific Northwest is different from the badlands of Nebraska is an understatement. I love both places for different reasons, but the distinctions in topography can’t help but stick out like a sore thumb to me. The biggest change to hit me this holiday season is the lack of large, bushy, green Christmas trees that go on for what seems like forever. Every year my parents, brother and I usually go chop down a sweet smelling pine tree in the forested area surrounding the Atlantic salmon farm that we l...
In previous columns, I defined parenthood as an infinite act of optimism. You enter the job with open arms and an open heart, trusting the child you’ve been entrusted with will learn, grow and love under your humble tutelage. Loving one child is optimistic – two, doubly so. Imagine taking responsibility for 20, or maybe 25. I define that as optimism on steroids. As a parent, you get to keep the same kids season after season. As soon as you’ve known your own for about a minute and a half, they start to grow on you and you wouldn’t dream of swap...
For the Christmas holiday the City of Sidney will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 24 and Dec. 25, in observance of Christmas. All city departments will be closed including the landfill and the library. The Dial-a-ride Bus and Stage Line Bus will not be running. The Solid Waste Department will be collecting Monday and Tuesday’s trash on Wednesday. For the New Year’s holiday City of Sidney will be closed on Tuesday, Jan. 1, in observance of New Year’s Day. All city departments will be closed including the landfill and the library. The D...
Christ Episcopal Church Christmas service times are Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, Holy Communion at 10 a.m.; Monday, Dec. 24, carol singing at 11:30 p.m. followed by first service of Christmas at midnight. Christ Episcopal Church is located at Linden and 10th Streets. First United Methodist Church Christmas Eve service times are 5 and 11 p.m. First United Methodist Church is located at 2622 11th Ave. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Holy Trinity Lutheran Church will be having their Candlelight Christmas Eve Worship Services on Monday, Dec. 24, at 4:30...
The 21st Century Youth Choir, about 40 of Sidney’s 5th and 6th graders, sang at the Sidney Rotary Club’s Christmas party. The children have been singing for the club members at the Christmas party for the past 2 years. The youths sing four to five Christmas carols and then are visited by Santa....
Calvary Baptist Church Pastor Douglas Peirce has been in Sidney for about 22 months but has been a pastor at three other Baptist churches. However, he began his adult life as an engineer with his own business in surveying and engineering in Indiana, “When I was 50 years old, back in 1994, the Lord spoke to my heart and told me to sell the business and go to seminary.” Though he did not grow up Baptist it would be the foundation of his beliefs in his early adult life. “I grew up in a very liber...
Diana Sonnie and Karen Pilger were the first volunteers sworn in as Court Appointed Special Advocates in Cheyenne County Wednesday at the Cheyenne County Courthouse. The job of Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASA members, is to help children in the court system, program director Yvonne Donaldson said. “We work with children who are in court through abuse or neglect. Our job is to get to know the children, their caregivers, their teachers and anybody who has any information about them, and...
Making a difference in the world can sometime be as easy as being a mentor, after all the children truly are our future. The Teammates Mentoring program was founded by Tom and Nancy Osborne, said Sidney’s Teammates Coordinator Angie Jacobsen, “20 years ago in Lincoln and started with some football players.” The program extended from its roots in focusing on troubled youths to a focus on youths in general and youth who wish to participate, Jacobsen said. “In the last 20 years research has sho...
City of Sidney Police Chief Mike Brown said in a prepared statement that the best defense that can be taken to prevent an event like the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., is to prepare, practice and educate. “Having a second grader myself, I empathize with not only the parents of the children that were taken from this world in a senseless and cowardly act of violence, but also parents across the nation that have had their sense of safety and security shaken to the core,” Brown said. Members of Sidney’s Police Department and School District have alway...
