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The Georgia-Notre Dame game is a reminder that the pre-game pontification and prognostication can make fools out of all would be soothsayers.
So often the highly-hyped college football games fall far short of the pre-season hoopla.
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With another anniversary of 9/11 this week (still seems hard to believe it has been almost two decades ago now since that event), I thought back to how that tragic event trickled down to all areas of our lives even the sports world.
Vincent Joseph Dooley, the Depression-born kid of Irish and Italian descent, is much different in the winter of his life than he was in its spring. That makes him as human as the rest of us.
Now that college football has kicked off, it can step aside and let the big boys of the football world take center stage.
As the first full weekend of college football arrived, there was certainly the opportunity for an upset.
Cogent leadership in sports has no defined blueprint or template.
A new high school football season is here.
By the time you are reading this, we will be only three days from the start of the new college football season.
Fall is a favorite season for many.
A half century ago, plus a few years, Vince Dooley was 31 years old, there was not only was an absence of high expectations with his first team, there were, to be honest no expectations at all except for preachments of doom. Football at the nation’s oldest chartered state university was like…
When in the company of retired coaches these days, you often hear them remark how much they would enjoy unretiring and landing a five-year contract with today’s exorbitant salaries.
One of our country’s best traditions has returned for another year.
Part six of a six-part series, highlighting what the Georgia football team needs to win championships in 2019.
He sat on the back row at church, in the past, with all his children. I called him “ Possum” but his real name was Kevin Stratton. This story began one evening recently in Lula at Belton Bridge Park on the Chattahoochee River. He had his two boys Austin, 13, and Matt, 14, with him.
Part five of a six-part series, highlighting what the Georgia football team needs to win championships in 2019.
There are many indicators fans use to signal the start of a new football season.
There were few surprises coming out of the annual SEC Media Days this past week.
Rivalries in any sports are always fun, but that especially seems to be true for college football.
Later this month, the sports media will descend upon Hoover, Ala., for the 2019 edition of SEC media days.
It’s amazing how even today, in 2019, so many do not truly understand the role of a community newspaper.
It’s not easy being in charge. That goes for a job inside the sports world (such as a coach or athletic director) or someone who makes a living in the business world.
We will continue to have spring football in 2020 although it will be with one league rather than an expected two.
I drive by two local high school football stadiums on a regular basis and each time I do so it reminds me of how close we are to a new gridiron campaign.
We are now less than three months from the start of a new college football season.
A recent conversation with a fellow fan of the gridiron focused on the upcoming season and which teams both of us thought would excel in the college ranks as well as the pros.
One of my favorite early indicators that a new football season is just around the corner has always been media guides.
As we sit here in May 2019, it’s easy to be confused about how the time gets away from us.
We closed another chapter on the National Football League draft this past Saturday night.
If you stop for even a brief moment, the signs are all around us.
Admittedly, the 2019 football season is still weeks (months actually) away.
The return of the XFL next year will have to fill the spring void for pro football in our country.
The golf world, as well as the sports world overall, will look to Augusta National next week as another chapter known as The Masters will be written.
Items from my sports reporter’s notebook as we welcome spring for another year:
Years ago, a promotional tagline for the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament was simply promoted as “They call it March Madness.”
Bethlehem Christian Academy leaders decided to part ways with Lance Fendley, and even several days after learning of this move I am still stunned.
Yes, we still have approximately six months until the new college football season arrives. However, thoughts are always on the start of the new gridiron campaign regardless of how many weeks we have until kickoff.
Certainly, no head coach in any sport can be truly judged after only one season.
Here are a few items from my reporter’s notebook as we inch toward spring.
Through the years, the Super Bowl has signified the curtain call for another football season.
Sunday’s Super Bowl won’t be remembered as one of the most exciting games of the past 50-plus years, but once again the New England Patriots are the kings of the professional football mountain.
The “Big Game,” as we have been hearing it referred to, is now just days away.
The name Bill Apter may not ring a bell for many in the sports world.
As we continue into the new year that is 2019, I find it hard to believe that so much water has passed under the proverbial bridge since 1991.
A college football national champion was crowned in recent days and it happened in a game most are not thinking of.
The last few weeks haven’t been the best for the Georgia football team.
The outcomes of the two semifinal playoff games went about as most thought they would.
The teams are set and the rabid fan bases of each have all been involved in some fiery pregame banter.
Growing up I was somewhat of an odd sock when it came to being a fan of college football.
Some sports dynasties are known to even the most casual of fans.
After some entertaining and competitive conference title games, the 2018 FBS playoffs have been announced.
The recent holiday weekend saw many of the long-time college football rivalries played out.
The march continues toward the college football playoffs with few surprises this past weekend.
With another week of the regular season behind us, we continue to move closer and closer to the college football playoffs.
A disclaimer to start this column is that I am not an Alabama football fan per se.
As the final seconds ticked away on the game I was covering last Friday night, it entered my mind that we are nearing the end of another high school football regular season. The seasons seem to take longer to arrive these days and are too often gone within a blink of an eye. That has certain…
Longtime Air Force Academy football coach Fisher DeBerry said something more than two decades ago that remains with me today.
With each week taking us deeper and deeper into the college football season, now is a good time to look at the true contenders for the playoffs.
A sports team having a successful season is always an accomplishment and always enjoyable for fans of that respective franchise.
One thing that will never grow old or outdated is playing your rival.
It’s a funny thing about sports memories.
With Friday Night Lights having been a tradition for me well before the phrase Friday Night Lights had ever been heard of, I have found myself at a local high school football field somewhere in this state each week this time of the year since the 1970s.
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