Opinion Archive

At my birth, my parents named me “Michael,” perhaps after my dad’s brother or after the famous ballplayer, Mickey Mantle; I’m not sure. For the first half of my life, I went by the name “Mike.” Church members called me, “Pastor Mike.” Now I have gone back to “Michael.” It is, after all, my name. […]

Spring break for the area high schools was this past week, marking the last real chill period until the end of the school year. I took some time to enjoy the end of last week since my schedule was a little lighter, but this is now officially the time of the year where I tell […]

As I watched Jay’s girls basketball season end with a 66-49 loss to Williston in the FHSAA Rural state championship game on the final Friday night of February in Jacksonville, the initial thoughts were on how tough it is to lose after coming so far.

Mike Tirico summed it up nicely in his closing broadcast of the Winter Olympics, telling young viewers the dreams of one day being an Olympian are formed now.

I still remember when the University of West Florida football team practiced on a lonely field on campus and played all its home games at Blue Wahoos Stadium.

Splitting private and public schools for postseason purposes has been a white-hot topic for a long time.

I saw someone post the other day on social media about the lack of junior college football in Florida.


The coach was asking for the governor to do something about it.

It’s Super Bowl week and I have a few thoughts to share ahead of the game between New England and Seattle.


I was kind of hoping Chicago was going to make it so that we could have had a rematch of Super Bowl XX. 

There is a lot I could touch on this week in this space, but I’ve seen a few posts lately that have me thinking about what the current era of youth and high school sports.

I might be the only one out there who didn’t enter the transfer portal.


I’m not serious, of course, though all kidding aside, the transfer portal might be as jam packed as ever.