Cloud Nine

If you happen to be over in Tarboro today that Cloud over the community is Cloud Nine as they bask in the glory of the State 2-A football title.

The offense fumbled on their first possession and the defense held Mountain Hertitage to a field goal other than that the defense sparkled for the Vikings.

Join me on the "Stretchlon Sports Show" Sunday night on Whig-TV as we tried to horn in on the glory. Coach Jeff Craddock and some of the Vikings will be live at 8.00pm.

Tiger Woods says he is going to lay out of golf for a while and try to get his marriage and life back together since Thanksgivings Thursday night when his world crumbled before his eyes. I suspect he has to let that divot in his skull heal before he ventures back into the public.

Woods who has been on the verge of passing Jack Nickalaus as the greatest golfer of all time is now missing a lot of his prime golfing life. It started with a knee injury and now a head injury inflicted by an irate wife.

Most golfers prime is between 27-35. Once they hit 35 their children get to the age when it is more fun being home watching them grow up than it is being out on the tour all the time.

Wednesday night at Ridgecroft school in Ahoskie after a JV basketball game as the teams were shaking hands a scuffle broke out and the Halifax Academy coach while trying to seperate the players somehow landed on top of a Ridgecroft player. This brought the father of the player on the floor and others players family's member into a scuffle.

The father was charged with two counts of assault and battery and he countered by filing asault charges against the Halifax Academy coach.

The girls and boys varsity games were cancelled to cool things off.

Sometimes I think the children should sit in the stands and watch their parents play.

A side note. During my Junior year in high school during the summer I spent working with my father who was a electrician for White and Woodley in Ahoskie. We spent about three weeks wiring Ridgecroft school when it was built in 1969. I think I pulled every foot of wire in the place. Luckily the school has never burned because of an electrical problem so we must have done a pretty good job.