Helmet Hitting Time

High school football teams from all over the area were on the scrimmage field tonight somewhere  trying to figure out who looks good in  shorts and who wants to hit when you line up against someone else.

Tarboro hosted six teams including County mates North Edgecombe and SouthWest Edgecombe.  Raymond Cobb has announced that this will be his last at SWE and this will be his last chance to return to the finals for another State football championship.

Nash Central  who almost twice last year beat Hunt only to fall short will move the best athlete in the conference to quarterback in junior Khalil Macklin.  I can tell you the Bulldogs have a linebacker on defense that is drawing attention from everyone in Colin Staton #44.  He will run fullback on offense and middle linebacker on defense but in college it would not surprise me to see him playing D-1 in any North Carolina school or even Maryland.   College he will probably move to outside linebacker or maybe safety but he is getting attention from everyone.

Tiger is in the hunt for the PGA championship in South Carolina.  A hard wind had the pros scrambling to get the ball on the greens.  It is funny to watch a golf match with the temperatures in the upper 90's with a bright sunshine and yet the wind blowing 15-20 miles and hour.

USA basketball has only one more game to go as they crushed Argentina today.  The women's team go for gold Saturday and they are dominating the games more than the men.

N C State men' s basketball wins again on their tour of Spain.  Seems the freshman are for real for the Pack.  At least the ones that made the trip.

Saturday night the Carolina Panthers begin the second year of the Cam Newton era.  Despite being 6-10 last year  there is optimism abounding that the Panthers can make a push for the playoffs.  Who knows what New Orleans will be without their head coach.  Atlanta to me is a good regular season team  and Tampa who knows where they will be.  If the defense is better the Panthers could surprise some folks.