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COLUMN: Hancock setting a winning tone at EB
Jon Hancock has his East Burke boys basketball team in the very heart of the Catawba Valley 2A Conference championship race as the regular season draws to a close.
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COLUMN: NCHSAA setting the wrong example
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) long ago divided our high schools into classifications from smallest to largest to determine state champions.
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COLUMN: Birth of ACC hoops, Part III
I recently read the book ACC Basketball by J. Samuel Walker and was flooded with many great memories. These memories ran the gamut from certain games to great athletes to new coliseums to colorful characters, and on and on.
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COLUMN: Birth of ACC hoops, Part II
The ACC was formed in 1953 when the “big four” schools of North Carolina, N.C. State, Wake Forest and Duke joined up with South Carolina, Clemson, Virginia and Maryland to leave the old Southern Conference.
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COLUMN: Birth of ACC hoops, Part I
I mentioned two weeks ago that the organizers of the ACC were really looking to upgrade their football programs in the early 1950s but instead put together the finest basketball conference in the country over much of the nest 50 years.
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COLUMN: Newton shines, but Yates still playing
The Carolina Panthers can thank their lucky stars for Cam Newton.
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COLUMN: The ACC … a football league?
Many say there is neither rhyme nor reason for all the conference shuffling going on in college sports. A good example is TCU’s recent consideration of joining the Big East.
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COLUMN: Black Mountain's Stewart slowly nearing release
Sammy Stewart grew up only 40 miles west of us in the little town of Black Mountain. In the late 1970s and early ’80s, he was a member of one of the greatest pitching staffs in baseball with the Baltimore Orioles.
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COLUMN: A two-sport hall of famer?
Winning a national championship assures many coaches of a lifelong elevated status of greatness.
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COLUMN: Rodgers, Packers atop the NFL
Quarterbacks are in a category of their own on sports teams. No other position in all of team sports carries the importance as that of QB in football.
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COLUMN: A time to be thankful
Over the years, I’ve been a fan of Ron Green Sr., who headed up the Charlotte Observer’s sports pages for many years.
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COLUMN: Draughn football and some sports records
I want to personally congratulate coach Scott Lambert for the great season he’s just finished with the Draughn High football team.
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COLUMN: The best and worst of college sports
Last Friday night’s basketball game between North Carolina and Michigan State was certainly one of the most unique sporting events I have ever witnessed.
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COLUMN: Sports teach lessons, good and bad
I made my annual trip to Ohio last week to see cousins whose dad moved them from Morganton to the Buckeye State in the 1930s. To no one’s surprise, the main topic of conversation was Ohio State football.
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COLUMN: What might have been in store for Freedom
When I was coaching basketball at Salem High School in 1960, our school and team faced a similar fate to the one that knocked Freedom High School out of this year’s state football playoffs.
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COLUMN: Tracking down the Hawkins boys
Over the years, I remember seeing newspaper sports columns with the caption “where are they now?” Of course, the writer tracked down some sports figure from the past and brought his readers up to date.
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COLUMN: Post 21 should have consulted Causby
Without Earl Causby, we wouldn’t even have had American Legion baseball all these years in Burke County. He supported it in every way possible, many times putting his own money where others put none.
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COLUMN: Who are this year's gridiron contenders?
At this time of the year, there is a lot going on in the sports world. Our in-state schools are doing a very nice job staying competitive this college football season.
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COLUMN: BC Open a rousing success
The Burke County Open golf tournament recently finished up another very successful year with 65 entries and great corporate sponsorship from AJ’s Steakhouse.
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COLUMN: Burke gets deserved airtime Friday night
Delano Little, WBTV Channel 3 sports anchor, had a lot of good things to say about Freedom High School on Friday Night Football last week.
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COLUMN: Valdese's Coach Barger and New York baseball
In last week’s column I mentioned the new rivalry between Freedom High and Draughn High in football and how reminded me of the old rivalry between Morganton and Valdese high schools.
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COLUMN: Loss of an old hero and emergence of a new one
In 1957, UNC won the NCAA basketball championship and Tar Heel coach Frank McGuire came to Morganton that spring to speak to local alumni.
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COLUMN: Top level football at ASU?
A 45-minute ride up the mountain to Boone to watch the highest level of college football sounds mighty attractive to local pigskin fans.
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COLUMN: County football about to kick off
The Burke Parks and Recreation Commission has provided organized sports for our county youth for many years now.
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COLUMN: Thome, Jeter should be headed to the Hall
Two of baseball’s finest citizens recently joined the game’s elite when they reached the 600 home run mark and 3,000 hit club.
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