by Ralphine Major | Apr 8, 2013 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major He got lots of “twos” during the 1964-65 basketball season. His coach wishes there had been a three-point shot back then. Leslie Spitzer, a Gibbs High senior who wore the No. 30 jersey, was one of the starting Eagles on the boys basketball team. ...
by Steve Williams | Apr 8, 2013 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams There is still room in NCAA Division 1 basketball for the little man. We’ve seen plenty of good examples in this year’s postseason play. Diminutive guards Russ Smith, a 6-foot, 165-pounder, and Peyton Siva, also 6-0 but a little thicker, led...
by Mark Nagi | Apr 8, 2013 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman It’s been a rough go of it for college athletics in recent weeks. From a Rutgers basketball coach videotaped throwing basketballs at his players heads while yelling gay slurs, to an Auburn football program once again accused of breaking the rules to win...
by Joe Rector | Apr 8, 2013 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I received news a few days ago that Ann Mier passed. Just today, I learned that her family wanted me to serve as a pall bearer, but I was in Nashville for my wife’s surgery and missed any communications that came to me via social media. To me, she was a...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 8, 2013 | Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley State Senator Stacey Campfield has proposed a bill cosponsored with State Representative Vance Dennis which would reduce by as much as thirty percent state assistance for those families who have a child in school who has failing grades. Campfield...
by design | Apr 8, 2013 | Beeler, Columnist
By Richie Beeler One of the greatest privileges of my life was afforded me eight years ago by my longtime friend and mentor, Steve Hunley. I was offered the job of starting a sports section in a fledgling newspaper called the Fountain City Focus. That meeting...
