Heaven still doesn’t have a newspaper subscription. I know. I can’t believe it either. I also can’t believe it’s been a year since my dad passed away. 365 days have come and gone.

There appears to be a lot of transferring going on lately, and not just among college athletes either. We’re talking a lot of movement among high school athletes as well. One coach in particular to the east of us seems to be working extra hard to bring in athletes from Navarre.

For the most part, politicians need to leave sports alone. That includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. He and lawmakers in the state have these big dreams of trying to reshape the FHSAA.

I received an email the other day from one of those companies in the middle of somewhere about NCAA basketball. Call it good timing, especially with March Madness getting rolling this week with the NCAA tournament. It lists the top 10 best cities for college hoops fans and the top 10 worst cities.

Alabama freshman basketball star Brandon Miller is the biggest story in college basketball right now. And for all the wrong reasons. Innocent in the eyes of the law, he’s drawn unwanted attention in the national spotlight because of his connection to a murder.

The climb to the top certainly wasn’t easy for Pace’s girls weightlifting team. There was a time where the Patriots were a long way from being a contender in the sport. But the climb reached the pinnacle on a Saturday in Lakeland in the middle of February, with the Patriots celebrating their first state title in program history.

A new name. A new school. The same story. You want more than anything for the cycle of young people dying by suicide to end. There just doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.

MaxPreps has a much bigger role now in high school athletics than it once did. That status update is the result of the FHSAA partnering up with it when it comes to calculating rankings that determines who goes and who stays home when it comes to the postseason in all sports.

Haason Reddick leads the NFL in sacks. He’s having a postseason to remember. And on Sunday he’ll play in the Super Bowl with the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles.

It’s a small world. When I first started writing here in Florida, covering sports for the Navarre Press – a role that has since stretched into the Press Gazette – Joe Surratt helped coach track with his wife, Mimi, at Navarre. I never imagined he’d one day become the head coach of a start-up high school program, especially at Central, which, for the record, I had no idea even existed when I arrived in the area.