beThursday was going to be a good day. As both a procrastinator and person with the attention span of a puppy dog on barbiturates, rare is the occasion when I am ahead of the game. It often takes deadline pressure to force me to get it in gear and HEY LOOK A BUG! Wednesday was different for some reason. I worked late, got a lot done and appeared to have smooth sailing on Thursday. Why, with all the extra time I had alloted myself, I was going to be able to write an epic Class A preview. With region play starting, every game's importance is heightened. It seems hard to believe, but we're more than halfway through the regular season.
Of course, all my best laid planned went to crap right around 10:30 Thursday morning. I got a text from Chester High AD Ricky Campbell telling me his team's game with Lancaster had been moved up to Thursday. The problem that creates when you write for a newspaper is that you have budgeted a certain amount of space to previewing Friday's game. About of third of my sports section had just disappeared since it would seem counterproductive to run a preview of a game that had already been played. It wouldn't be that big of a problem, I thought, I can work around that...then my phone rang again. This time it was Great Falls Coach Kenneth Schofield telling me his game at C.A. Johnson had been moved up. OK, this would be that big of a problem, since my Great Falls preview was also out the window now. The really irksome thing was that I'd already written that one. Now instead of easing through a Thursday, I was frantically trying to think of anything to fill the giant, gaping holes in my sports page. "If you've caught an abnormally large fish or something, give me a call," I tweeted. Yeah. Fifty-pound catfish pictures can plug the hole! Who doesn't like seeing a big dead fish in the paper? Well, I had no takers. Luckily I had a volleyball story and some competitive cheer info, so all's well that ends well in terms of turning out another quality sports section...such that I'm capable of quality work. What I've just laid out for you is, essentially, an incredibly long-winded explanation of why there isn't a Class A preview this week. A number of games were played last night, the times for games today got all scrambled too. Plus, the time I thought I could budget to writing the preview was suddenly gone. I'll cover all this week's action in next week's week in review. I feel like I owe you something, though. I'm not sure why, since I'm not charging you to read this, but as with yesterday, I feel like something should plug the hole here. If you've read the blog much, you realize I write about football AND barbecue...but tasty smoked meat takes a little bit of a backseat during football season. Today it's not, friend. Below, is an excellent all-purpose rub recipe. I did a series on barbecue a few years ago and got former Chester Mayor (and competitive barbecuer) Mitch Foster to let me print his secret rub recipe. Honestly, I've used it on multiple kinds of meat and have always been pleased with the results. Now, the further I've gotten into grilling and smoking, the more I've experimented with my own rubs. But the basic sugar-to-salt-to-other-stuff ratio stays close to the same in most cases. Obviously, the recipe below makes a large batch for competitive cooking purposes, but just dial the cups back to tablespoons or whatever if you only need a small amount. If you have a rub recipe you want to share, I'll be happy to steal it...er, share it with our readers. Mitch's Famous Dry Rub Two cups of white sugar. Two cups of brown sugar. One cup of coarse salt. One cup of ground black pepper. One cup of dried, chopped onion. One cup of dry mustard. Half-a-cup of Paprika. Half-a-cup of garlic salt.
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