There’s an old saying “love what you do.” For all my life, I have loved sports. Starting at 5 years old, I watched ESPN non-stop. I would come home after school, turn on SportsCenter and watch it until I fell asleep. There was always one reporter I admired the most in those days. His name was Sal Paolantonio. He would always end every segment, in his distinct Philadelphia accent, by saying “Sal Paolantonio, ESPN.”
A Crestview man was arrested after a tense, eight-hour standoff on Barbarree Drive on June 27 and is accused of sending emails to Gov. Ron DeSantis threatening law enforcement.
Crestview’s football team traveled to Milton on Friday to take on the Panthers looking for its first win since beating Gulf Breeze on Sept. 1.
Mission accomplished. A slow start was no sign of things to come as the Bulldogs exploded for 42 second half points to beat the Panthers 49-22.
It seems I get older, metaphorically speaking, if not physically, every week.
Baltimore Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson died Sept. 26. Dick Butkus, perhaps the most menacing linebacker in the history of the NFL, died Oct. 5.
There are certain rivals in sports that put a snarl on my face just thinking about them.
As a University of Tennessee graduate, Alabama and Florida are two of those rivals. There is only one high school team that still sends this old Gulf Breeze Dolphin into mind numbing rage and head-spinning episodes straight out of the Exorcist. That team is the Milton Panthers.
I wasn’t born Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, throwing the United States into World War II.
And although I was 5-years old in November of 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, I really don’t remember that day.
I was out and about at Juana’s Good Time Regatta this weekend. Kaitie Kiger covered the event on Saturday in a chase boat and I went out on a chase boat Sunday to take pictures.
This was the team at Juana’s/Sailors Grill’s 33rd year organizing and running this event, which is a tremendous asset for our community.
