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Max Whisnant and Beth Choate
As I sat down to write this column, two of our better athletes, who are no longer with us, came to mind, Max Whisnant and Beth Choate.
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Charlie 'Choo Choo' Justice - Part 2
Last week we followed the legendary football career of Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice from Asheville High through his days at the Bainbridge Naval Training Station in Maryland. The years were 1941 through 1945.
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Charlie 'Choo Choo' Justice
When I wrote about Dub Hord several weeks ago, I mentioned he was a teammate of Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice at Carolina in the late 1940s.
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Trey Hennessee a part of special days at ASU
To be the champion or to play on a championship team is the dream of every athlete. To be the best in your county is special and to be the best in your conference is very special.
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Athletic facilities
I played my first game of basketball as a ninth grader at Salem school on an outdoor dirt court. Since I had never played in a gym, I thought it was great just to have a game anywhere.
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From Owen High to UNC, NBA and NASCAR
Less than an hour up the mountain on Interstate 40, Brad Daugherty was quite a basketball player at Black Mountain Owen High.
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Waters: Basketball is here again
It seems like only a couple of months ago when Stephen Curry and his Davidson College teammates came close to the impossible: reaching the Final Four of college basketball.
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The single-wing formation
Football has come full circle.
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Bryn McSwain and the Cheves Invitational
It's great to see one of our former athletes go into coaching and very special when they get their first head coaching job.
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The Olympics
The recently completed 29th Olympic Games was a high success in most every way imaginable.You may have missed some of its highlights and records so I'll share some of them with you.
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The tiny space from first to an also ran
It's an incredibly difficult thing to move to the very top level of sports. Milorad Cavic lost an Olympic gold medal by .01 of a second, much less time than it takes to blink an eye. Cavic was a victim of Michael Phelps' record-setting time in the 100-meter butterfly.
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Joe Franklin was a community treasure
We lost a real sportsman in our community last week when Joe Franklin went home to be with his Lord after a nearly two-year battle with cancer.
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Remebering Private Simpson
The above caption was the title of an article in Our State magazine about the football exploits of Morganton High star Bobby Simpson and his untimely death at Iwo Jima in 1945.
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