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While I was still working in Sarasota before I transfered to Athens, GA in 1993. I was working in same field (Mail Acceptance) that I ended my career with as a Manager in Atlanta ,but on a much smaller level. I got to meet and interact with a number or business professionals in Sarasota. There was a lady that I would interact with from the Sarasota Area Blood Bank, named "Devonne". I grew up fairly naive about alot, and even in my early 20's at that point remained naive about much particularly as it related to women. Devonne was HOT HOT, and for what ever reason decided I was her go to guy at the PO when ever she was there. If I wasnt immediately around she would hound the guys to go find me or just generally want to know where I was. It led to the guys...(all way older than me), to teasing me about her, normally they would start asking me questions about Devonne, that revolved around "what if" scenario type questions.

Devonne, was always on me about donating blood ecspecially when I told her I was C-. After several months I relented and decided one day on my lunch break to go head down to the blood bank and donate blood. The staff there asked a number of questions about my personal health, but also wanted to know whhat prompted me to come donate and I responded by letting them know Devoone had convinced me to. At this point Im all hooked up, in a semi laying down position and I guess one of the staff had let Devonne know I was there. She was out in a flash, and immediately concerned I wasnt eating or drinking anything while I was donating my blood. She offered to go get some juice and essance stay with me to hold my hand until the process was complete. She comes back with some orange juice and jumps up on the thing I was semi laying on and insist we toast to the ocassion! I didnt drink...stilll dont and had never toasted anything, so she says I'll do it. So she begins with a "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if Rock Hudson had stuck to P**y, he wouldn't be dead!" I literrially spit the orange juice I had in my mouth out all over myself. I had never had or heard a woman talk to me in such a manner, she just giggled and ran to get something to clean me up. She eventually married a building contractor and started having kids, and I saw very little of her after that. But during this time of her always teasing me, Robert Palmer came out with his video "Addicted to Love", my jaw dropped the 1st time I saw it, I swear the lady playing a guitar to Palmer's left in the video looked exactly like Devonne.....anytime I see the video I immediately thinkk of Devonne!

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The 1st 30 minutes of th video consisted of discussing the Venice/Lakeland game, and then to a larger extent the Venice AD spoke to the less than desirable circumstance at the Tallahassee venue and the short comings in general of the way the FHSAA insist on having these Championship games at a neutral site, primarily as it relates to the financials
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Pickem Contest for 4S Classification and 3S Classifications

I guess the way we'll do this is as follows:
1.) Contest will run for the duration of the playoffs until a state Champ is determined for 4S and 3S Classifications.
2.) All entries must be submitted each week of the playoffs by 5:00pm eastern standard time on Friday, except for the Championship games
3.) Championship games entries must be submitted by midnight the day before the Championship game is played
4.) Entries for all playoff games through the semi-finals will be strictly pick the winner for each game
5.) The Championship games for 4S and 3S will require picking the winner of each game as well as total points scored for each game.
6.) The individual selecting the largest number of correct winners over the duration of the playoffs, will be declared the Florida Varsity Pickem Champ for 2023!
a.) In the event of a tie, the tie breaker will be based on who guesses closet to the over-all number of points scored for the 4S& 3S Championship games

7.) Grand Prize Winner will receive the following:
a.) Florida High School affiliated Tee-Shirt of the Grand Prize winner's choice
b.) $25 gift card to Beef O Brady's

* If this meets everyone's approval I will move forward with posting this coming week's scheduled games?
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FHSAA approves new football classifications

Which are very similar to the previous system. The FHSAA Board of Directors voted 9-4 for the 2024-2025 season. There will be eight classifications (Rural and 1A-7A). The board approved required district play for the upcoming season. More fair and competitive competition was cited in one article for the reasons for the change.

The “Open Division” proposal was not voted on. This idea is to have top teams pulled out of respective classification’s tournaments with a winner-take-all tourney of Florida’s top teams.

I took this from a couple of reports. I could not find anything about the results from the FHSAA on their website at this time. The FHSAA front page has a statement that yesterday’s meeting of the Board of Directors meeting was to take place.

All 9 State Title Games will be televised

The Florida state football title games will be on Bally Sports this week. Three games a day on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 10am, 3pm and 8pm. The games will be played at FAMU’s Ken Riley Field in Tallahassee.

Thursday
Class 1M
Clearwater Central Catholic vs. Chaminade Madonna

Class 3S
Mainland (Daytona) vs. St. Augustine

Class 1R
Madison County vs. Hawthorne

Friday
Class 1S
Trinity Catholic (Ocala) vs. Cardinal Mooney (Sarasota)

Class 4M
Mandarin (Jacksonville) vs. Columbus (Miami)

Class 2S
Bradford (STARK) vs Cocoa

Saturday
Class 2M
Berkeley Prep (Tampa) vs Norland (Miami)

Class 3M
Homestead vs. St. Thomas Aquinas

Class 4S
Lakeland vs. Venice
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