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Sports Column
Luke Gilliam / Waco Tribune-Herald

There's a wry wit working throughout Luke Gilliam's sports columns for the Tribune-Herald.

"It's just from my sense of humor, and there are a lot of my life experiences in there," Gilliam said.

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Sept. 29, 1999

"There should be humor in sports, because that's where people go to get away from it all and from the pressures of life."

Gilliam worked for two summers for the Tribune-Herald before he was hired full-time in July 1999.

He writes a column "when I have the time," he said. "I've handled our high school coverage, and that takes up most of my time."

A China Spring, Texas, native, Gilliam earned a communications degree from Howard Payne University. He also played first base for Howard Payne's baseball team, and covered sports for the Brownwood Bulletin.


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EXCERPT:
"I can now tell my offspring exactly where I was when the great Americans came from behind to defeat the communist Europeans for the last Ryder Cup of the millennium."

 


 

JUDGES' COMMENTS:
"Gilliam's columns have a wit and clarity about them that make the reader comfortable, amused and informed."