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Bucky Dent

Johnston City

Sports Writer at The Southern Illinoisan

Full-time freelance sportswriter, covering mostly SIU sports. Umpire, jack of some trades and awesomely sarcastic according to a friend.

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  • 20 hours ago | deadspin.com | Bucky Dent

    Middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. steps into the boxing ring Saturday night with Jake Paul in the latest lap on his tour of past-their-prime punchers. Paul had his hand raised after a staredown with Mike Tyson in November, when the 58-year-old heavyweight legend looked his age and struggled to connect or land a clean punch on Paul. Chavez Jr. is 19 years younger than Tyson, but the 39-year-old isn’t exactly in his physical prime or at top form.

  • 2 weeks ago | thesouthern.com | Bucky Dent

    MARION — Before his new boys basketball team took the floor on Monday morning, Tyler Hatton asked every player with varsity experience to raise their hand. He could count them on one hand and leave the thumb down. kAm“x 92G6 @?6 DE2CE6C 324< 7C@> =2DE J62C[” 96 D2:5 |@?52J]k^AmkAm(9:49 >2<6D 6G6?ED =:<6 |@?52J’D 52J 42>A 2E |2C:@? w:89 $49@@= 6G6? >@C6 4C:E:42= 7@C w2EE@?[ H9@ :D ?@H CF??:?8 @?6 @7 E96 36EE6C D>2==\D49@@= AC@8C2>D :?

  • 2 weeks ago | bvmsports.com | Bucky Dent

    MOUNT VERNON - If Samuel Kollbaum wore his uniform for a while after Friday night's SICA All-Star football game, it was certainly understandable. After all, the Nashville star's athletic career ended with the last carry of a good high school career.

  • 2 weeks ago | thesouthern.com | Bucky Dent

    MOUNT VERNON — If Samuel Kollbaum wore his uniform for a while after Friday night’s SICA All-Star football game, it was certainly understandable. After all, the Nashville star’s athletic career ended with the last carry of a good high school career. kAmu:EE:?8=J[ z@==32F> D4@C65 2 E@F495@H? H:E9 a ½ >:?FE6D =67E[ D62=:?8 E96 q=F6 E62>’D ah\`h H:? @G6C E96 (9:E6 @?

  • 3 weeks ago | thesouthern.com | Bucky Dent

    CARBONDALE — There are heartbreaking losses and then there’s how Du Quoin’s baseball team ended its season Monday night at the Class 2A Carbondale Super-Sectional. Ahead 5-0 in the bottom of the fifth with righthander Dedrick Melvin absolutely dealing, the Indians found out the hard way that Teutopolis is never out of a game. kAm%96 (@@56? $9@6D D4@C65 E9C66 E:>6D :? E96 7:7E9 2?5 E9C66 >@C6 :? E96 D6G6?E9 7@C 2 DEF??:?8 e\d H:?]k^AmkAm|:?FE6D 27E6C A:?49\9:EE6C %6282?

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