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Tom Orsborn

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Sportswriter for 39 years at San Antonio Express-News, covering everything from preps to the Cowboys to the Spurs. Proud San Antonio College alum. 🌈 ally.

San Antonio, Texas
Joined November 2009
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One week later, it all still seems so surreal. From inside the drawing room: A look back on a spring night in Chicago that changes everything. #Spurs.
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GM Brian Wright's understated, classy reaction stands out among drawing room memories.
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RT @donwinslow: For 15-18 years they were willing to DIE for this country and this is how Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth treat them. Disgus….
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RT @SouthTexasBlood: We recently donated vital equipment to a blood bank in Monterrey, Mexico, which included gently used blood pressure cu….
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RT @CedGolden: Austin NFL icon 'Night Train' Lane rides again in documentary | Golden via @statesman.
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RT @DavidCornDC: "To meet his mass deportation goals, Trump is stripping legal status from thousands of immigrants who followed the rules."….
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Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
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RT @spurs_way: šŸ–¤šŸ’š Help Texas Heal šŸ’ššŸ–¤. The @spurs have joined 31 teams across the state to launch the Texas Sport for Healing Fund in respon….
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RT @DominguezCinco: Spurs join 40 pro sports teams to launch ā€œTexas Sport for Healing Fundā€ in response to Central Texas flooding. Fans can….
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RT @Will_Bunch: Growing up after WWII, I always hoped concentration camps were history, not current events. But here we are: migrants in sq….
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Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
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A blunt warning in 1975 from a prominent staffer at a Chicago newspaper didn’t stop 20-year-old journalism major ElaineĀ Noll from pursuing her dream of becoming a sportswriter. On the pioneeeing career of a brave, persistent San Antonio journalist:.
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Working at the San Antonio News and the San Antonio Express-News from 1976 until her death in 1985, Noll broke barriers as one of Texas' first female sportswriters.
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RT @safoodbank: The San Antonio and San Angelo Food Banks are hosting emergency flood relief food and resource distributions at select loca….
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RT @safoodbank: Emergency Response Update: Upcoming flood relief distributions below. Registering in advance is required. Kerr County - Fr….
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RT @JonLemire: ā€œHiding your face from the public as a federal agent undermines the legitimacy of our nation’s police, and can be mistaken f….
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The federal government should prohibit the wearing of masks by ICE agents and require them to properly identify themselves.
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RT @tripgabriel: 'In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior official, said the county did not have a warning sy….
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Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
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RT @AP: The UN human rights office said it has recorded 613 killings in Gaza near humanitarian convoys and at aid distribution points run b….
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Hamas says it has given a ā€œpositiveā€ response to the latest proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza but says further talks are needed on implementation.
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RT @anneapplebaum: "Vladimir Putin is not looking for a cease-fire, and he does not want to negotiate. Why? Because he believes that he can….
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Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.
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RT @mccaffreyr3: Disgraceful cruelty. Laughing at misfortune. Economic refugees treated worse than WWII German POW’s in the US. A shameful….
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RT @tribelaw: Hearing Trump say he intends to detain and deport even American citizens born here years ago whom he personally regards as ā€œb….
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RT @JoaquinCastrotx: The name ā€œAlligator Alcatrazā€ fails to convey how extreme and barbaric Trump’s latest attack on immigrants really is.….
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RT @SouthTexasBlood: Your blood is in critical need, and we’re counting on outstanding donors like you to help patients. As a thank you,….
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RT @Atul_Gawande: This is a travesty and a nightmare. The US was a founder of @Gavi. It lowers vaccine costs for the world, has vaccinated….
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RT @safoodbank: Attention, San Antonio—we need your help! 🫵 Join us for a volunteer shift next Saturday, June 28, and help distribute food….
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