As I walked around Beyer Stadium in my hometown of Rockford, Illinois, a couple of weeks ago, I thought about the Rockford Peaches and what it must have been like to play here in the era that they d…
Four years. It just doesn’t seem possible.
But, yes, it really has been that long since DJ Deas, a promising young athlete who seemingly had the world at his fingertips, died by suicide shortly af…
I came across a blank Father’s Day card the other day while cleaning off my desk at home.
I can’t tell you when I bought it or why it was never sent. Perhaps it was an extra card that I planned to…
When Jon Moon reached out a couple of weekends ago to let me know his wife’s battle with cancer had taken a turn for the worse, it hit me hard.
Not just because I know how much Daphne Moon loved h…
A lot of people point to how important the rules are until those rules are no longer important because they aren’t convenient.
If the FHSAA is going to have a rule that a player ejected from a gam…
You all remember Quentin Randolph.
Especially in 2019 when he took NCAA Division II football by storm and helped propel the University of West Florida football team to its first national champions…
Devin Wright was 12 the day he walked into the Navarre Press office on a summer morning with his mom to talk about his experience at the Ripken Futures Game in Baltimore.
Some days, it seems like…
We need a new rule book written on how certain things should go when it comes to sports.
Things that need to be off limits simply because they serve no real purpose.
We often get caught up believing great stats give you the green light to write a ticket to the pros in permanent marker.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s awesome to have a batting average over .300, a sco…
