Football season is Hurricane season

• Had better start paying attention to the weather. This storm that is coming out of the Caribbean. Looks like opening night at the Rocky Mount Athletic Complex might be in jeopardy?
  
  The storm track looks as though it is going to come up the west coast of Florida and head northeast, which puts it near North Carolina by midnight Thursday. If it follows the track which the weather service most likely thinks, all we will get is rain.
  
  If we are postponed on the 22nd, you might be looking at a Saturday night game instead of the following Monday night, which B. W. Holt likes to do. The Gryphons are already scheduled to play on Thursday, the 28th at Hunt High School due to the Labor day weekend.

  
  

• Anyone who has ever swam before has to marvel at Michael Phelps as he now has the record for the most gold medals in any Olympics ever.
  
  A 100 yards swimming is like running a quarter of a mile. In track and field, you don't see the guys who run the 100 meters also run the 440. Michael Phelps can do 50 meters or 200 hundred meters.
• Regardless of whether the USA basketball team wins the Gold or not, Coach K (I don't have any idea how to spell his name) has to be commended for his coaching job. He has taken a group of superstars and has molded a really good defensive team.
  
  If they win the Gold medal, it will be their defense that does the trick. Even with all the superstars on the team, they are not a good shooting team, but they are hiding that behind their good defense.
  
  While I'm on the subject of the Olympics, why in the world do they have water polo? When was the last time you went to the pool and a polo game broke out?
  

We have finally reached game week. Game No. 1 of the season. Hopefully we have 16 to go.