Sports Columns

Well, I surprised John Stroud with a stat.
When I spoke to some people early on about my plans to research the county tournament, the first thing several told me was that West Union boys have not won a county tournament title since 1976. If that’s the case, who better to talk to than Stroud, who was a member of that team.
But even he didn’t realize that the Eagles’ drought has gone for 36 years now.

“Some people call it junk, but I call it treasures.”
I had a feeling I would get sidetracked while researching the history of the Union County basketball tournament, but in a good way.
I stopped in the office on Sunday afternoon and noticed I had a voicemail waiting on me. Now, my phone hardly ever rings, so my immediate thought was that I had a complaint of some sort, but rather the message was from Charles Owen of Myrtle.

I had the chance to hang out at Memorial Gym earlier this week to check out the tryouts for the inaugural volleyball team at New Albany.
I reported last month about the large number of attendees at the first practice, and with school being out and vacations and such going on, the number was quite lower when I made it to the gym for the later session Tuesday morning.
Nonetheless, I can say that there were some great athletes out there, and even more impressive was how much they had improved within a few weeks.

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Friends of the Library’s monthly Lunch with Books session, where I reviewed Michael Oher’s book ‘I Beat the Odds’ for the group.
While I’m not exactly the best person you want to have speaking to your group, I enjoyed it nonetheless, as this is the second time I’ve reviewed a sports book for the group.