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A high school baseball coach in Florida was understandably pretty excited last year after his team won their first state championship in three decades. While addressing the team, he dropped a LOT of F-bombs. And when a video of the speech surfaced earlier this month, the school fired him...

I love this time of year very, very much. When the calender turns to December 1st, it is very difficult to make me mad. Very difficult...but not impossible.

Every Tuesday, we here at Just a Bit Outside roll out a Top Five list for your listening (and reading) pleasure. Because we use all of our creativity juice on-air, we call this "Top Five Tuesday." This week, we covered the Top 5 Craziest Things People Have Done With Their Pets

What *DOES* it take to be number one? As a wise man once said...two is not a winner. And three? Three nobody remembers. Being "Number One" of all time in ANYTHING is something not to take lightly in today's society and the responsibility of determining such is one to take seriously. Yet recently, Men's Health took that responsibility and spit in its face.

Every Tuesday, we here at Just a Bit Outside roll out a Top Five list for your listening (and reading) pleasure. Because we use all of our creativity juice on-air, we call this "Top Five Tuesday." This week, we covered the Top 5 Professions That The Employees Take Way Too Seriously.

I believed in Santa Claus for a very long time. Not "18 years old, probablevirgin" long, but I was around 11 years old when I finally accepted the harsh reality. Admittedly, my belief was rekindled at around age 23, when I started realizing the dichotomy between how much parents made and how much I used to recieve. However, this blog is not about *MY* personal belief in Santa. Its about

Even if you live under a rock (its time to stop disrespecting our below surface dwelling brethren), you know this Friday was BLACK FRIDAY!!! What you also know is that this year, many major stores technically opened Thanksgiving Night (no one considers midnight the start of the next morning. So stop condescendingly correcting people to that end.) What you may not know is that on Thanksgiving Nigh

Every year around this time, families gather together from far and wide to join hands at the table and give thanks for all of the good things in their lives. Its beautiful, its time-honored, and it makes me sick. I'm not saying there's NOTHING I'm thankful for (I'm a big fan of WWE Classics On Demand!), but there are FAR more things I'm not thankful for. And its time to share them with you! Read

Recently here on 1057thehawk.com, Barbara LaRue had a post about her favorite quotes. I read through it, enjoyed it, but then felt sad. "Why did you feel sad?" I'm sure you're wondering. Well I tell you, so stop being so damn impatient. It made me sad because there are very few quotes in this world that inspire me to do anything but get angry. In fact, most of the world's most popular &q

Each day I, the handsome and talented Mike Krenek, will help you get to know me better. My goal is to tear down the walls of listener/DJ limitations and get to know each other intimately. Friend intimately, of course. Not intimately intimately!!! I don't want you get the wrong idea about me. We'll start the series with an exploration of my deepest, darkest fears.