Opinion Archive

It seems like every time I turn around another collegiate conference is adding women’s flag football.

It’s not a surprise. The sport is one of the fastest growing in the country and is an emerging sport at the NCAA level. It could very well have championship status by 2028.

On a morning where I only planned to shoot photos of a basketball scrimmage, I ended up being asked to shoot a ball as well.

The New York Knicks are NBA champions for the first time in more than a half century, and their championship is about more than just a trophy.

I was 14 or 15 years old when Stacey King came to a shoe store in my hometown of Rockford, Illinois, to sign autographs for a few hours.


King was a rookie with the Chicago Bulls.

The word on the street is we may soon be going back to the single-game format for the regional tournament in high school baseball.

With the high school athletic season officially over, and now that I have had a few minutes to catch my breath, I want to say I appreciate everyone who has followed along with our coverage this season.

Many of the graduates in Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties are high school athletes I have covered over the last four years.


Navarre, Pace, Milton, Central, Jay, Baker and Crestview have all been represented well by those athletes and now it’s time for them to bid farewell and move on to the next chapter of their lives.

Sometimes it comes down to just doing what is right for the student athletes in our area high schools.


It doesn’t always happen. State tournaments are played on the day of high school graduations, and even locally, all-star games are played on graduation nights.

Softball has taken a big step forward in the area this year.

One of the local schools in Northwest Florida put out a post a few days ago seeking money for its playoff trip to the Jacksonville area for a best-of-three baseball series.


An athlete asked me to share it on social media in the hopes it would help their cause. I did. I’m always here to help the athletes any way I can.