Four-time Conference Champ

This past Saturday the individual NEW 6 wrestling championships were held at Southern Nash High School.

Francisco Alfaro won the 130-pound weight class for the Gryphons. In winning this, the Rocky Mount senior became the first Gryphon wrestler to ever win an individual championship four straight years.

The boys basketball team, fresh off their 10-point win over Northern on Friday night, hits the road Tuesday as it will meet Southern Nash with the opportunity to even its record. The Gryphons (9-10) are still hopeful for a good seeding in the basketball playoffs and Tuesday's game is a must game the Gryphons that they can't afford to lose.

The girls (14-4), on the other hand, still can go undefeated in conference play (6-0) and are looking at least one home game to start the playoffs if they can finish in first.

Tuesday's game at Southern will be part of the Coaches vs. Cancer series and a dollar per ticket will be donated just as ticket sales Friday night were against Northern.

Super Bowl reflections:

Regardless of which team you pulled for in the Super Bowl, both quarterbacks played well.

To me, Ben Roethlisberger elevated himself to that Brett Farve plateau being the winning quarterback for the second time in his career.

The Steelers are a really good fit for Big Ben. I think if he had to throw 40 times a game he wouldn't be so good. But, the Steeler defense keeps them in the game where one score is about all that's needed to come back in a game.

Big Ben has shown to be quite capable in his five years. This offseason he needs to stay away from motorcycles.

Kurt Warner is 50-50 for the Hall of Fame. He could probably use three more good years. His problem is he is not mobile at all and if he plays on a team without much blocking he will find the bench again where he has been buried the last three or four years.

The Dallas Cowboys get all the exposure, but the Pittsburgh Steelers just keep on winning. It hasn't always been that way, however. When the NFL merged with the AFL teams, the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns and the Steelers left the NFC to join the AFC to balance the leagues out.

Pittsburgh, which had been a laughing stock over the years in the NFL, started winning and have had very few losing seasons since the merger.

Now its leads in Super Bowl victories with six.