Life Moves With Or Without Us

I hear this all the time: "the paper can't even come cover the biggest game of the year."

Let me start off by saying this is not a "bash the paper" column. Being a radio guy, you will find there is not one station in Rocky Mount willing to try to put local sports on the air anymore unless you drop the money in their lap.

Today's corporate America is the by word. There was a time when local people owned the radio and newspapers. Not anymore. There was a time when you could hear the tobacco market opening on the radio or see on the front page a picture of the Rotary Club meeting.

There was a time when Planters Bank was the hometown bank, but that is even gone. I was talking with one of our local magistrates just recently and he was telling me of a group of police officers were in a room where they were having a meeting a someone said something about that's across the street from where Tarrytown Mall was and more than half the officers there didn't know where Tarrytown use to be.

Life goes forward. Everyday something changes from the way it use to be. The Internet has about killed newspapers. In fact, in 20 years newspapers will probably only be on the Internet ,of course, unless something has replaced the Internet by then.

I wish I could tell you I knew of a way to have a channel devoted to anything local that happens of interest that you could have live access to it when it happens. But, unfortunately, I don't have the ability to make it happen. I bet some corporation someday will.

I went to the Relay for Life in Tarboro last night so I missed the 'Canes loss to Boston. Being the lower seeded means that at some point you have to win one game on the higher seeds' iIce. In fact, because New Jersey won once in Raleigh, the Canes had to win twice in Jersey.

The loss last night is not the end of the world. In fact, the Devils beat the 'Canes by the same score in the first game of that series of 4-1. I do think the Bruins are a lot better than the Devils, so Sunday's game is vital for the Hurricanes.

Game time Sunday is at 7.30 on the Versus Network.