Opinion Archive

It’s summertime and those pests are back.

No, I don’t mean the tourists, and shame on you for thinking about our valued guests that way! I’m talking about the bugs, the mosquitos and all their hungry friends, who now lie in wait just outside your door.

In a little over a month, the Major League Baseball Draft will be underway.

It doesn’t quite bring the same hype, as the NFL Draft, but it’s still a big deal. A really big deal.

Back-to-back weeks of covering the state baseball and softball tournaments are in the rear-view mirror, and it seems now I finally have a moment to breathe with the official high school sports season wrapped up until the fall.

Pace’s baseball and softball teams both played at state, but neither was able to come away with a championship.

I have been a musician since being introduced to the guitar at age 11.

I studied music in high school, advanced in music theory, then pursued a music education degree at a university.

“It’s a win-win arrangement,” Jack’s mother said enthusiastically to a friend.

A party to their conversation, I nodded my head in agreement and added, “It sure is!”

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 game must sit out at least the next two, then there shouldn’t be any doorway that can be opened to change it.

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 championship.

It’s hard to believe nearly six months have passed since we took over the Press Gazette. In that time I’ve had a chance to see a good number of senior athletes compete in different sports.

And now, it’s the end of the road for those seniors as graduation is just around the corner. Four years have gone by in the blink of an eye for you, though in your minds, it probably feels as if high school has taken forever to get through.

Growing up, Ronald Reagan was this nanogenarian’s favorite movie star. His election as governor, then president was so exciting!

I’m glad he’s not alive to hear his son’s ad (reported in an area newspaper,) stating he’s, “not afraid to burn in Hell.” His father would be heartbroken.