Sports Columns

I couldn’t tell you the first thing about soccer, well, besides the fact that they kick a ball around.
When I attended Ole Miss, I worked in the Athletics Media Relations office and opted to work more  with the sports I didn’t know as much about, soccer being the main one.
Granted, my job was sitting on the sideline and blowing an air horn to indicate substitutions (which I chose to do solely because I was able to use an air horn), but a bulk of my knowledge of the sport comes from working this job for the better part of two years.

Well, this was the first time in roughly 15 weeks that I had nothing to do with football. Think about how much time that is giving your undivided attention to one sport.

When I started at the Gazette, my primary focus was learning about football since that was the first sport and special section I would work with on my own. My predecessor, Mitchell Smith, gave me an odd look then explained that I would only cover one school, as this was before the county schools joined together for their squad. At that point, I didn’t know that non-football schools existed, especially since the smallest school in Lowndes County (West Lowndes), where I’m from, even had one.

Seems like each week gets more and more exciting!
I’m happy that I was able to stand on the sideline last week and witness history, as the Bulldogs won their first division title in 28 years and first in Division 1-4A. This team has come a long way from when I started at the Gazette in 2008, and I believe it’s because the right men are in charge of this program.