Timing is Everything

Sometimes in life you stumble into something because you were there at the right time. The"early bird gets the worm".

There are other times when you are primed to take the top prize and the rug comes out from under you. 2008 football team would be a prime example.

This years boys basketball team has had a hard time finding itself. Last night the Gryphons without TaShawn Mabry for the 4th time this year gave a good battle but came up short at Fike by a 63-58 score. This evens the Gryphons at 8-8 and most importantly and drops them to 1-2 in conference play and they find themselves two games behind league leaders Fike and Nash Central who are three and zero.

This team has had a hard time getting any timing and practice time is limited as the season barrels toward the end.

Yesterday I was at the conference Swim regular season final meet of the year.

Though the so called football, basketball, and baseball are considered to be the glamor sports. The real athletes are however working out daily in their sports without much fanfare.

Those runners who can run in cross country, wrestlers who have to go face to face against someone else, and swimmers who even swimming fifty yards a major task are just as good of athletes as the major sports if not better.

Some of the best athletes in the NEW-6 were swimming at the Harrison YMCA yesterday. It is a shame for all of us who profess to be sports announcers, or reporters that the names of those are not in the head lines like the big three sports.

I guess everyone has heard by now of the girls high school game in which one team won 100-zero. The school is so embarrassed they have asked to forfeit the game.

I ask why wasn't there one person at the game willing to put a stop to this travesty. Now that it is over I don't think forfeiting is the correct answer. Suspending the coach for the rest of the season would be better as far as I am concerned.

A coach is like the captain of a ship, he is responsible for everything that happens. Having a full court press even with the end of the bench in the game and the score 98-0 is the coach fault.

The players on the team earned the victory when they made the score 2-0. Don't blame them and take away a victory because the leader of the team wanted to set some record.

FIRE THE COACH