It’s been a busy week, with the turkey leftovers and the football and the soccer and the basketball and the napping. As you might expect, it’s hard to keep one coherent thought in your head when so many things are swirling around.

So here are a couple of incoherent thoughts, ramblings and odds and ends:

• Deer season started in earnest over Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s a reminder that The Vicksburg Post will accept and publish your hunting photos, as we’ve done for decades. Just email them to sports@vicksburgpost.com and include who is in the photo, when and where the deer (or fish, or alligator, or hog) was taken, the age of the hunter, and any interesting details of the hunt.

Also, please try to make sure the photos are well lit and free of gore. Some blood might be inevitable, but we don’t want to publish pictures that the editors of “Fangoria” would deem too disturbing.
A small trickle of hunting photos has started to come in this week. It’d be nice to turn it into a flood.

• It’s been a wild week for football coaches in Mississippi and around the Southeastern Conference. Would have been nice to have them make some of the announcements a little closer to our deadline, though. Ole Miss’ announcement that it was keeping Matt Luke and Mississippi State’s that it would hire Joe Moorhead both came about an hour after we put the paper to bed for the night.

Hazard of the profession, I suppose, if a little frustrating.

• It’s been a week since Thanksgiving and we still have a turkey leg, some green bean casserole and half a cheesecake left in the fridge. It feels like I’m about to launch into a “Man vs. Food” competition to finish those off before they go bad.

• Speaking of football and eating, is it weird that I’ve never had a concession stand hot dog at a high school football game? I’ve eaten something at every other type of sporting event, but am usually too busy at football.

• The MHSAA high school football championships are this weekend, and once again none of our local teams are in it. Hard to believe they’ve only made five total appearances in the championship games since the playoff system began in 1981. Warren Central seems to be knocking on the door, though, so hopefully they can add to that in the very near future. It’s getting tiresome — for everyone involved, I suspect — to see other teams celebrating.
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Ernest Bowker is a sports writer for The Vicksburg Post. He can be reached at ernest.bowker@vicksburgpost.com.