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Last week I was without my e-mail for several days and not until Friday did I receive the news that Spencer Bell had won a Babe Ruth scholarship. You know we forget sometimes that because they hit a ball and run fast that is all they can do.

Spencer has been a part of a a Babe Ruth World Series, Legion State Finals played on two very good Gryphon baseball teams and was a part of Gryphon football team that played in Eastern Finals. He still had time to excel in the class room.

Spencer now a freshman for the Wolfpack has made us all proud of him both on the field of play and the young man he has become. Congratulations to the Bell family.

You know not all athletes that excelled on the field of play go on to the next level and play sports but prepare themselves for their future. I said this on this blog after the end of baseball season in 2009 that Dillon Cockrell was my favorite baseball player during his four years playing Gryphon baseball. Today he is excelling in the classroom at Carolina hoping to become a Doctor.

I heard from a birdie that the boys basketball team looked good Saturday during the jamboree held at RMHS.

From the NFL front does it seem to you that the New York Jets are no where near as good as their record. The defense is good but the offense just can't score. Teams that can't score 20 don't last long in the playoffs.

Now that Minnesota is 3-7 I think it is time for them to develop a quarterback for next year. They went down to Mississippi in August to beg Brett Farve to comeback because they didn't have a QB and with Farve playing like a 42 year old over the hill quarterback the Vikings had better look to next year.

What is it about the NFC East. The Giants have played three weeks like world beaters and they make Dallas look like Super Bowl champs yesterday. But, that is the way that division is every year. Everyone is so close in that division it is hard to dominate.