Several years ago, to my surprise, Justice Scalia was my seatmate on a flight from Denver to Washington. He was returning from a fly-fishing trip to Wyoming. He was quite an outdoorsmen, and often traveled, he said, with people he met as a Supreme Court Justice responsible for the Fifth District, including Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. It was on a hunting trip where he passed away, outside of Alpine, Texas in the Big Bend region.
While on our flight he did some reading for an hour or so, and then we chatted the rest of the way. Mostly we talked about fishing -- redfish on the Gulf and trout-fishing in the Rockies. He was very pleasant, but obviously gets very intense, even on small issues. The closest we got to political or court issues was on the government and religion.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013