There are very few blackhole times of year when covering high school sports when things disappear into a vacuum of sorts.
The months of June and July are the closest thing we have to a blackhole. The two months between the end of the school year and the start of fall practices are when things slow to a crawl. It’s a time to catch up on other sports news in the community.
I have been in this industry for more than 25 years at this point, getting my first paid job at the Ball State Daily News in the summer of 1998.
Since that time, I have written thousands of stories (my best estimate is around 5,000, but that could be a little high or a little low).
I have been a fan of video games for practically my entire life. My parents purchased an Atari 2600 for my brother and me in the early ‘80s and I’ve been hooked on them ever since.
I even wrote a weekly column on gaming at my last job that was published across the country for a few years. While I don’t consider myself an expert on the subject, I’m definitely well versed in it.
I’ve always been fascinated by mascots and how schools went about deciding their mascot.
Look around Northwest Florida and you will see everything ranging from Raiders at Northwest Florida State College and Navarre High School to Vikings at Fort Walton Beach High School.
It’s fair to say that Florida Power & Light didn’t make the best impression when it first purchased and took over the former Gulf Power.
Customer rates immediately rose to the point where several county and municipal leaders got involved by petitioning FPL and the Florida Public Service Commission about lowering rates.
It has long been said that the two favorite sports in the Deep South are football and spring football. And while we have to wait another four months or so for high school football season to start in the fall, spring football is upon us.
Last week, we reported on the Crestview City Council voting to move forward with foreclosure proceedings on 15 properties that have accrued tens of thousands of dollars in fines if not more for not being in compliance with city codes and make no effort to get into compliance or communicate their intentions to do so with the city.
It’s hard to believe we are in the home stretch of the school year.
The boys district weightlifting tournaments were last week. District tournaments in the spring sports will continue through April and end with the baseball and softball district tournaments May 1-4.
There’s no need to sugarcoat some things. The pandemic sucked.
Millions of people worldwide died from the virus. It brought undue racist attacks against Asians here in America. It helped to bring a lot of anger to the surfaces in the states and abroad.
