More than seven hours from home on a Monday night in early May, I’m in Port Orange covering a regional championship flag football game. Navarre is on the brink of school history and makes it ha…

As Navarre running back coach and head track coach Tony Carter always says, you have to expect greatness. And that was the expectation I took into the Florida Press Association’s awards luncheo…

There’s a photo of Michael Sandle standing in a conference room in the Houston Astros’ headquarters. He is wearing an Astros jersey, his dad is standing at his side and there is a contract on the …

Ladarius Clardy didn’t make things easy for Navarre on a rainy September night in 2018 at Bennett C. Russell Stadium. The Pine Forest quarterback was on top of his game. He burned the Raiders t…

Thousands dream of being a pro athlete. Only a small percentage of them ever make that dream come true because the odds are so stacked against them. Navarre’s own Michael Sandle has beaten the …

There is a new frontier developing in college athletics and it is one where a college scholarship is simply no longer enough. Once upon a time it was. An athlete getting a scholarship used to b…

There are a lot of reasons you are reading this column today. My interest in the once-great Chicago Tribune at a young age is one of them. I say once-great because the Tribune is in the midst o…

There are always different paths available to the same destination, and often the same result, and that is exactly what college football is shooting for as it looks into blazing a new trail to a c…

We’ve got Tim Tebow in the NFL, Tony La Russa unhappy with his own player violating a rule that isn’t even written down and fans at games behaving like the teacher just left the room for five minu…

Resilient seems to be the most fitting word to describe the senior athletes who will walk across the stage at graduation Saturday inside the Bay Center in Pensacola. It’s fitting because it too…