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James «JT» Thomas, former linebacker of the West Virginia Mountaineers, will be inducted into the Minor League Football News Hall of Fame on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at the Oasis Resort Hotel & Casino in Mesquite, Nevada.

Thomas’ nomination was reviewed by the MLFN’s Board of Directors, and he received notification of his acceptance on July 30.

«It is truly an honor to be receiving this award,» said Thomas. «I owe a big thank you to everyone for supporting me through the years.»

Thomas has used strong leadership skills, tireless work ethic, and passion for the game to become a driving force in the development and promotion of minor league and semi-professional football across the Midwest.

The story of JT Thomas’ football career can be broken into three distinct chapters: player, coach, and executive. Thomas’ collegiate career started at Fort Scott Community College (Kansas) in 1992. Following his sophomore season, Thomas transferred to West Virginia University (WVU).

In two seasons at Fort Scott – both as team captain – Thomas earned two All-Kansas Jayhawk Conference honors at outside linebacker and Defensive Player of the Game in 1992’s Valley of the Sun Bowl. At inside linebacker for WVU, Thomas received two Mountaineer Club Awards for on-field excellence, earned two All-Big East team honors, and won Defensive Player of the Game in the 1994 CarQuest Bowl. He also led both teams in tackles each season.

A successful college career led Thomas to the semi-pro football circuit in 1996 with the Charleston Rockets, where he was able to play with former WVU great Major Harris. Returning to outside linebacker, Thomas led the team in tackles and became a league All-Star as the Rockets finished their 11-game regular season 10-1. Thomas attempted to carry his success from semi-pro ball to the Arena Football League in 1997 with the Albany Firebirds, but sustained a career ending leg injury on the third day of training camp.

Instead of a helmet and pads, the next step of Thomas’ football career featured a headset and clipboard. After a stint as Defensive Coordinator for a championship team of 13-16 year olds, Thomas returned to semi-pro football in 2000 as Head Coach of the West Virginia WHAM! Located in Morgantown, WV, Thomas compiled a .695 winning percentage (41 wins, 18 losses), won three Coach of the Year awards, and coached three league All-Star games in six seasons as WHAM! head coach.

In 2001, Thomas also led the WHAM! to the Mid-Ohio Football League (MOFL) Championship.

During the 2003 season, Thomas took over full ownership of the WHAM! When he stepped off the WHAM! sideline in 2005, he decided to shift his focus full-time towards developing the success of semi-professional football and the WHAM! franchise. In the two years since he has stopped coaching, Thomas has held executive positions within the Ohio Valley Football League and the MOFL. In January of 2007, Thomas was promoted to MOFL Commissioner.

Currently, Thomas oversees the day-to-day operations of the MOFL – an expanding, 10-team semi-pro league across Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky. His love for semi-professional football is matched only by his desire to see the MOFL – and every minor league football organization – produce a football product that is competitive, organized, developed, and entertaining for the players in the game and the fans in the stands.

Thomas also serves as a Semi-Professional Sports Consultant with League Level, LLC, a company that provides marketing and promotional strategies for organizations with an emphasis in amateur and semi-professional athletics.

He currently resides in Morgantown, WV, with his wife Rochelle and two children, Jared, 3, and AJ, 10 months. Thomas also has son, JT Thomas III, from a previous relationship.

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Countless media sources highlight the bad, amoral and ugly Nigeria, so the good gets left behind. As a Nigerian now living out West, I know to take everything I see in the news about my country with a grain of salt. I turn on the news, and almost every headline I read about Nigeria goes along the lines of, «Nigeria in Crisis», «Hundreds killed in Nigeria», «Terror in Nigeria,» and the extensive list of ugly and depressing headlines continue. However, the media doesn’t celebrate the people that do put in work to turn the country around; people who believe in their home and are willing to glorify it to whatever length it takes.

Nigeria as a country is far from its negative illustrations, and before reading this, you should believe that too. Although, I cannot deny that to an extent, Nigeria is truly not amongst the safest places to live. In fact, why would I leave my home and move out West if it were so safe, beautiful and generally positive? The truth is, just like every other country (but mostly developing countries), the people are tired of their corrupt leaders and have decided to take the matters of survival into their very hands. People have opted out from ethical societal norms of living, and begun to do anything and everything to survive, crime included… corruption, disregard of human rights, child labour, and so much more. So, I cannot sit here and deny the fact that Nigeria is indeed a land that breeds a host of crimes, and inhumane actions. But it is home; home for me; home for so many other people that are born into that system of survival; home for people that have no other option but to live a broken lifestyle; home for people that have no choice but to survive.

So even if I sit in my plush chairs, and type freely and safely at my laptop in public, without any immediate fear for my general safety while sipping on a pretentious yet delicious beverage from Starbucks out West, I cannot help but yearn for my home in the East. I yearn for my family, and hope that one day, Nigeria truly becomes a safe haven for all of the people that have left. It is in my moments of looking out for my country that I came across the incredible work of Devesh Uba (also known as Snap It Oga). In the past year, his name has diffused over all of social media. From Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr, he is everywhere, and more importantly, he is everywhere because of the nature of his photographs.

In 2013, Uba, a street photographer from India disregarded the many negative labels that propaganda media is fond of attaching to Nigeria, especially its commercial capital city, Lagos. This city is widely known as the second fastest growing city in Africa, and it is undoubtedly rich with diversity, culture, vitality, tourism, as well as extreme over population. Uba ventured out from his hometown in India to the vibrant city life of Lagos – armed with no fear from all of the negative information he had previously heard about the country – travelled to the city on his own to work and live for a year.

«Before moving here, I spent a lot of time researching Lagos and Nigeria, only to be discouraged when I did not find any positive stories or pictures. However, when I finally arrived and started to spend more time around the city, I realized there are several positive things about the culture that most media conveniently ignore. There is art almost everywhere… on Danfos, on streets, on shop signboards, on school walls and so on. The people of Lagos ‘hustle’ and do it with a smile. The colors of the markets are so vibrant and the ‘never say die’ spirit of people here is just so inspiring. The Nigerian love for food, football and music is just infectious», Uba opens up about his immediate perception of the city life in Lagos in a feature interview for Spirited Pursuit (SP), a blog and social media hub for travelling photographers.

With this overall surprise at how different Nigerians seemed in person, Uba launched his widely known brand called Snap It Oga. However he also states in his SP interview that this name wasn’t his brainchild but rather, «The first few people I photographed in Lagos would say ‘Snap it, Oga!’ when I was looking at them through my camera’s viewfinder; the name just stuck, so I just ran with it», he explains. And for many Nigerians reading this, we can all agree that Snap It Oga is indeed incredibly Nigerian and an invitation to the way of its people, as ‘Snap’ is a slang term (broken/pidgin English) for ‘take the photo’ and ‘Oga’ is typically a name given to a foreigner, or any one that is considered superior in Nigeria.

Apart from Lagos state, Uba has travelled almost everywhere in Nigeria from East to West, and his reactions about the disparity between the people he meets and the people he hears about in the media seems to grow large with every day he spends on the streets capturing photographs. It is because of this difference in illustrations of the kinds of people that live in the country that inspired Uba to launch Snap It Oga, a blog space where he catalogues all of the photographs he captures, and shares it to his various social media accounts and to his followers, without any media filter.

In my opinion, Uba has the right formula. Experiencing Nigeria and its people should be subjective, real, and free of judgment. I am not stating that there is no truth to the Nigeria you see in the media, all I’m saying is that like every country, Nigeria is made up of people, and it is these people that define the country. It is unfortunate that we’ve let our perceptions of Nigeria be shaped by the select few bad people, while ignoring the majority of great and genuinely kind Nigerians. Uba resonates with this too, as he states in his SP feature, «One of my worst memories as a photographer in Lagos was on the streets of Ajegunle when I was there to capture street art. The roads were pretty bad, so our car got stuck on a bump. Out of nowhere, ‘area boys’ surrounded us and started banging the car’s glass hysterically. Somehow my driver was able to calm them down by telling them his brother lives on the same street and runs a saloon in the local market. We were finally able to get some help from some kind people who stopped after all of the chaos ended. I can’t lie though; those were the most uncomfortable 20-25 minutes of my life. Despite this negative experience, I have had many great and positive experiences here in Lagos that make up for the bad ones».

So even if all that comes to mind when you hear or think of Nigeria is danger, don’t let that stop you from an opportunity to visit one of the most culturally diverse and successful nations in Africa. Nigeria is made up of deeply rooted traditionally and culturally rich elements that will shock and excite every keen and nonjudgmental explorer that has the opportunity to visit its land. From the beautiful clear blue waters, unparalleled ranches, incredible game reserves, warm springs, magnificent waterfalls, rich African history museums, and so much more, Nigeria has it all. So, do yourself a favour, turn off the television, plan that trip out to Nigeria against all odds like Uba, and explore like never before.

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I am amused when I hear television pundits complaining that President Biden has not intervened in the humanitarian crisis on the southern border in the United States.

Amused, because President Biden and the first lady are busy going for a ride at the beach amid the national crises and refuse to answer questions and Vice President Harris is busy winning the coin toss for her alma mater at a football game.

Let’s be real here. The Democrats and the media are banking on the fact that many Americans will forget President Biden’s missteps and scapegoat President Trump by their blatant biases and misreporting knowing that one half of the country hates President Trump.

President Trump is like the sham wizard hiding behind the curtain who is conveniently blamed for causing the failures under President Biden, which all the Trump haters believe, namely, the spread of the COVID virus, the loss of Afghanistan, the migrant crisis on the southern border, the rise in inflation and President Biden’s failure to unite the country.

Generally we don’t know who the migrants are or where they are coming from but we know that they are being dispersed, at the time of a pandemic, throughout the country without any COVID testing or precautionary vaccines and that two of them that were caught were on the terrorist wanted list from Yemen.

Despite all this, electorally Biden is in a favorable position because Haitians and Hispanics usually vote Democratic so a few thousand extra votes for Biden must be a positive since they can easily turn some of those southern states blue like Texas, New Mexico and Arizona with the addition of an extra 100 or so electoral college votes.

Apart from that, Biden stands to benefit in another way because of the unlawful distribution of additional House seats and electoral votes to states with high numbers of new immigrants. New immigrants can’t vote but those who vote will count more than those who live in states with a larger share of the population.

In 2020, without properly checking the alternatives voters replaced an authoritarian with an enfeebled 78 year old who seems more interested in his legacy than in the common good.

At present the illegal immigrants are crossing the border at the rate 200,000 a month ( https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/migrant-encounters-reportedly-exceed-200k-for-second-month-in-a-row/ ). These are future Democratic voters intended to give that party permanent power. People believe what they want to believe so in all probability Trump haters will continue to place the blame for the migration and other crises at his feet.

Sounds Machiavellian I know but that is how politics is played.

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Johan Cruyff is a legendary football player known the world over for his aggressive and intelligent style of play. Though he had success in his earlier years, it is when he joined FC Barcelona in 1973 that his star really began to shine.

Cruyff began his career in his home country of the Netherlands playing for AFC Ajax. There he led the team to many victories and memorable performances, but was eventually sold to FC Barcelona for a hefty sum. Cruyff wasted no time winning over the Barcelona fans, stating to the press that he chose Barcelona over their rivals Real Madrid because he didn’t want to play for a team associated with former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. He even named his son Jordi, a traditional Catalan (the region of Spain in which Barcelona is found) name.

Cruyff’s years playing for FC Barcelona were truly memorable and made him an icon. In his first year with the team, he helped them win La Liga for the first time in fourteen years (beating Real Madrid on their own turf along the way) and was also named European Footballer of the Year. It was during this time that he also scored one of his most memorable goals, called «The Phantom Goal» or «Le but d’imposible de Cruyff» (The Impossible Goal of Cruyff). In a match against Atlético Madrid, the football was already past the far goal post and was at about neck height when Cruyff leapt into the air, twisting so that he was facing away from the goal and kicked the ball into the goal with his right heel. This move among others propelled him to godlike status in the eyes of football fans.

Cruyff then spent many years away from FC Barcelona as a player and manager, until finally returning to the club as manager in 1988. When he returned to Barcelona, Cruyff brought with him the so-called «Dream Team». This elite squad was composed of Spaniards Jon Andoni Goikoetxea, Jose Mari Bakero, Josep Guardiola, Txiki Beguiristain, along with international stars Romanian Gheorghe Hagi, Bulgarian Hristo Stoichkov, Dane Michael Laudrup, Brazilian Romario, and Dutchman Ronald Koeman.

Under Cruyff’s direction, the Dream Team went on to win four consecutive La Liga titles from 1991 to 1994. They won the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1989 and the European Cup in 1992 at Wembley Stadium with a famous free kick goal courtesy of Ronald Koeman. In 1990, the Dream Team won a Copa del Rey, the European Super Cup in ’92, and three Supercopa de Espana.

Cruyff remains FC Barcelona’s most successful manager to date, with eleven trophies to his name. He also has the distinction of being the club’s longest serving manager. He continues to be an advisor for FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta, whom he openly endorsed during the elections. To this day, he is still revered by FC Barcelona fans, who call him «El Salvador» (The Saviour) for his successful run as both player and coach at the club.

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Breaking 1992 down into the biggest political, sports and entertainment news; here’s what happened…

The queen had both an expensive and an embarrassing year; early on announcing that she would bow to public pressure and pay income tax (the first time a British monarch had done so for over 50 years) and, at the end of the year, having her Christmas speech leaked to and published in ‘The Sun’ ahead of the big day. It was also a bad year for Manchester after the IRA exploded two bombs in centre of the city; injuring 64 people and causing millions of pounds of damage.

Politically, the government, led by John Major, made themselves unpopular on two fronts, by firstly signing Britain up to the ‘Treaty on European Union’ (many saw this as a loss of Britain’s identity); then secondly announcing it’s plans to close a third of Britain’s deep coal mines, with the loss of 31,000 jobs.

In terms of sport, 1992 saw Barcelona hosting the Olympic Games; it being the first time in 20 years that every country had been present (with no boycotts or bans in places). Linford Christie was the star of the event by becoming the oldest ever Olympic 100m champion (at 32 years old!). The year also saw ‘The Football Association’ launch the new ‘Premier League’, no-one at the time quite realising the revolutionary effect that it would have on the game.

Entertainment wise, the quirky, fast paced breakfast TV programme ‘The Big Breakfast’ made its debut. There was plenty of chaos and disorder on the show; Chris Evans being the one to lead the fun, games and competitions. The BBC were far, far less successful with their attempt at entertaining the public with ‘Eldorado’. Focusing on a community of ex-pats living in a Spanish fishing village, it was slated for its wooden actors and uninspiring storylines (later to be axed after just one year).

The big movies of the year were ‘Wayne’s World’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’. The first being about Wayne and Garth’s battling it out with a hot-shot TV producer to save their own low-budget TV show (and also win the heart of the lovely Cassandra!). The second being Quentin Tarantino’s story of a botched robbery and the hunting out of the ‘rat’ (was it Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Pink, Mr. Brown or Mr. Blue?).

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