Just coming off six days of vacation. I only caught one fish. I did build a trellis, fix an air conditioning leak and take another trip to my wife's ancestral stomping grounds down in Arabi (population 500, maybe), so the days off weren't entirely wasted. I also made a few notes for the Sports Blog. Sports radio: Not much of a fan of sports talk radio, but thanks to Savannah's ...
Note: I am now offically on vacation until June 3. I've yet to see the Savannah Sabers play football, but these photos from freelancer Julia Harrison show a group that seems serious about the game. They've also got some pretty sharp uniforms. And, Richmond Hill High School soccer standout Elizabeth Campbell is on the team as placekicker. What's more, Campbell, who is bound for Brenau on a soccer scholarship, went from graduating Saturday to playing ...
Got an email earlier this week from Energy Oasis in Richmond Hill which reads, in part --- "On Saturday, May 30, 2009, Jason Dahlke and his teammate entered and won our inaugural Energy Adventure Challenge at Ft. McAllister Historic Park in Richmond Hill. Several months later, Jason was killed in Afghanistan while serving our country. It is with great honor, through the permission of his family, that we have renamed the event: The Staff Sgt. ...
ALTMAN HOSTING HOOPS CAMP Richmond Hill High School boys basketball coach William Altman, fresh off the Region 2-AAAA title, is running a basketball camp for kids in kindergarten through 8th-grade and it starts Monday. I bring this up because he asked me earlier today to get something in paper and online about it .... So, here you go coach. Good luck with the camp. PS. We're kicking this sports ...
Now that school's out and area media have handed out their accolades to a number of high school athletes --- all are well deserved, by the way -- here are a few of my own thoughts.
Nothing like a little youthful hijinks to while away the last few days of school. Or, in this case, well --- maybe 'while' isn't the right word. Or is it 'wile?' In either case, read the following, submitted by a Richmond Hill High School track athlete, to find out what I'm talking about. They even sent photos.Including one with some of the, er, 'results' clearly visible. "I think that this is going to be it ...