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The Return of Blackburn

By Nick Gebhardt
ESPNOutdoors.com

Saturday, April 12, 2008

CLYDE, N.C. — The tattooed lumberjack looked proudly at his pupil like a proud father would upon his newborn son. Only this was no ordinary lumberjack — and certainly no regular pupil, either. This was Jay Blackburn, former Haywood Community College student now competing on the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Professional Series, who had returned to campus in support of his successor, Josh "Tiny" Roten. In the year since Blackburn earned his spot on the professional series by winning the Col ...

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