The Lady Gryphon volley ball team opened their season Tuesday playing Southwest Edgecombe.

The JVs beat the little kitten’s two straight games while the varsity took four sets to beat the lady Cougars three games to one.

The varsity is in action again on Saturday at Southwest Edgecombe as they will play in an all day tournament being hosted by SWE.

Soccer and Tennis are also winners this week so the athletic year is off an running at Rocky Mount High school.

Tonight we get to look at the football team as their final tune up is a scrimmage against Louisburg. Louisburg is coached by Chris Lee who just left Rocky Mount this past January to become the head football coach at Louisburg.

I would suspect Louisburg probably knows every play we will run on both offense and defense.

Brett Farve is back in the NFL joining forces with Minnesota finally. If he stays healthy the Vikes may make it to the NFL championship game probably against the New York Giants.

I was at the beach last week when N C State announced that Nate Irving was lost for the season after the car wreck he had in June which broke his leg. Whenever you are an average team one player can make a difference to the way you perform.

Last year the Wolfpack defense was one of the best in the league when Irving played. Their offense was one of the best in the country when Russell Wilson played quarterback.

We will see whether the team has grown and can with stand Irving not playing this year. It would seem that the quarterback situation is even better should Wilson go down during the season as highly touted Mike Glennon is waiting his chance.

It will be very interesting to see the out come of the so called fight among the coaches in Oakland, NFL Commissioner Roger Goddell has been very fair I think with the players he has suspended for their poor conduct.

If he doesn’t carry this thing over and apply it to the coaches he will have a hard time ever getting anything else by the players union.

There is talk of an owners lock out of the players in 2011. I surly don’t know what purpose that would serve. I do believe they need to put a rookie salary cap in place much like the NBA.

Friday night starts the high school football season and every local team sees action except for Rocky Mount. Tomorrows blog I will give you my prediction for the new Big East 3-A