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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" —> Hunter S. Thompson

Chris Ault is a great coach but a flailing boxer.

He telegraphed his knockout punch and the PR media missed it.

Servitors of the jockocracy as usual, the mainstream media would not risk any speculation that the "big press conference" Ault announced might close the little general's career.

Haven't these guys been watching Fox News or listening to KKKOH?

Speculation is the name of the ratings game.

A few days before resigning as UNR head football guru, Ault lamented looming schedules which almost guarantee frequent lopsided losses to mega-funded opponents.

Ault may go on to a very lucrative NFL career.

Bueno.

It's long past time to end the scam of the mythological student-athlete in big money sports.

I'm a union man.

People should be fairly paid for honest labor.

St. Louis Cardinals baseball player Curt Flood had to go to court to end team ownership of players as cattle.

He destroyed his career in the process.

Colleges squander billions while their players starve and risk losing eligibility and scholarships for accepting as little as a sandwich.

UNR student health services have been delivered at artificially inflated prices for a quarter-century to subsidize a voracious athletic department.

There's never enough.

Just as the Reno Aces and Reno Bighorns are farm teams for the big leagues, UNR runs a taxpayer-subsidized training camp for the NFL.

I pity the next Wolf Pack coach who will almost certainly get quickly fired for committing two unforgivable sins: not beating the likes of Notre Dame (remember the flaming 2009 shutout?) and not being Chris Ault.

PREDICTION CONNIPTION PART DEUX. Shortly will come earth-shaking revelations undercutting the validity of hundreds of longstanding Nevada laws.

Stay tuned.

WALLA WALLA WHOA! On New Year's Day, the PBS Newshour reported that a Washington community college created a "first of its kind in the nation" wine-making program.

God, even PBS has become incompetent.

My alma mater, Fresno State, had a world-class enology department when I attended in the 1960s. Still does.

I need a drink.

NOW A TOAST. On Jan. 3, Reno attorney and occasional Tribune columnist Jeffrey Blanck will be sworn in as the first non-African-American president in the 66-year existence of the Reno-Sparks NAACP.

Awesome.

Buenissimo.

Mazeltov.

VOTE FOR THE LUCKY 13. Thanks for your nominations of the most powerful Nevadans of 2013. Send more to <barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us>

For perspective, you will find last year's rogues gallery linked to the expanded web edition of this column at NevadaLabor.com/

SUPPORT THE DONALD. Kudos for the kind words about Don Dondero (1920-2003) as we ramp up the campaign to install the photographic superstar in the Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame.

His life's work appeared worldwide, including this newspaper.

Enlist in the campaign to install Big Don.

Please send me your memories and endorsements via e-mail or to P.O. Box 10034, Reno NV 89510.

HELP REVIVE RENO-SPARKS COMMUNITY TV.

If last year's elections didn't convince you, the 2013 legislature certainly will.

Join up.

You may donate at ReSurge.TV or contact me.

This is important.

Thank you.

LET'S GET IT ON. E-me to get on the Barbwire News bulletin list for information not filtered through corporate lenses.

I broke a bushel of major stories last year.

More soon.

Feliz año nuevo.

Be well. Raise hell.

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Andrew Barbano is a 44-year Nevadan, chair of the Nevada César Chávez Committee, producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration, first vice-president and political action chair of the Reno-Sparks NAACP, labor/consumer/civil rights advocate, member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO and editor of NevadaLabor.com and JoeNeal.org. As always, his opinions are strictly his own. Check local listings for other Nevada cable systems. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Daily Sparks Tribune since 1988.

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Andrew Barbano is a 44-year Nevadan, editor of NevadaLabor.com and JoeNeal.org; and former chair of the City of Reno's Citizens Cable Compliance Committee, He is producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration and serves as first vice-president, political action chair and webmaster of the Reno-Sparks NAACP. As always, his opinions are strictly his own. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us.

Barbwire by Barbano moved to the Daily Sparks (Nev.) Tribune on Aug. 12, 1988, and has originated in them parts ever since.
How a hall-of-famer's hunch birthed the Barbwire in August of 1987
Tempus fugit.

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