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Football defines West Texas towns

By Len Hayward
ESPNRISE.com

Monday, October 13, 2008

The day in December 1998 that former president Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives, it was barely represented on the front page of the Reporter-Telegram newspaper in Midland. It didn't matter that the leader of the free world had been impeached for the first time in more than 130 years; what mattered was that the Midland Lee High School Rebels football team won the school's first state championship, beginning a run of three straight state titles. The coverage of the titl ...

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