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STORM CENTER: Double up on success
Nocona’s Tanner Fenoglio played high school basketball for the Indians, and he represented the school at the state tournament in golf.
These days, Tanner has shown success in a different arena – the music world – as a growing county star.
Currently, Fenoglio has an album which is faring well on various music popularity charts called “This Town.” The CD features songs including “Cheap Gasoline,” “This Ain’t The Movies” and “Two-Light Town.”
Fenoglio cut the record in Fort Worth, playing a sunburnt Ibanez acoustic guitar he picked up when he was a high school student.
These tracks are straight Texas country. And one thing I’ve learned since living here is that Texas country and mainstream country are two entirely different musical genres.
It’s few and far between that people have success in both sports and music, but this column will explore one incredibly talented man.
My favorite song all time was written by a football player. Yes, you heard right, a football player.
Former Cincinnati Bengal and Penn State University standout Mike Reid co-wrote with Allen Shamblin a Bonnie Raitt tune from 1991 called, “I Can’t Make You Love Me.”
Remember that song, readers?
It was the third single off Raitt’s album, “Luck of the Draw.” The track reached the top-20 of the Billboard Magazine Hot 100 and it also was a top-10 adult contemporary piece.
In August of 2000, “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” was voted the eighth-best track in Mojo Magazine’s 100 Greatest Songs of All-Time. Read more from this column in the June 10 Bowie News.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
Here are the four people responsible for my favorite song, “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” (from left) Don Was, Allen Shamblin, Bonnie Raitt and former National Football League player Mike Reid. (Courtesy photo from Stereogum website)
Bellevue’s girl’s basketball team led at halftime but a quick 9-0 Jacksboro run in the opening moments of the second half would prove the difference in a 28-25 Lady Eagle loss June 15 in a Nocona Summer League game.
Leading 12-9 at the half, Bellevue continued to shut down the inside game of the Tigerettes. Jacksboro switched tactics and began firing from outside. Three 3-pointers in the span of just under two minutes gave Jacksboro an 18-12 lead.
Bellevue kept things close, however, getting on the second half scoreboard with Mattie Broussard’s basket and free throws cutting the deficit to two, 18-16. A Haven Jones 3-pointer put the Lady Eagles up 19-18 midway through the second half.
The Tigerettes had just one 3 -pointer the rest of the way but got inside for a pair of buckets to take a 25-21 lead with 4:50 to go. Both offenses shut down late.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.
New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.
Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.
The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.
“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”
Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.
Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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