Dear FHSAA, I know my birthday is still four months away and it’s not quite Christmas yet — even if the stores want us to believe it is – but if you don’t mind, I have a request. It’s not a big ask by any stretch of the imagination. I just want to make sure order remains in place when it comes to the district involving Santa Rosa County teams.

We live in a world where the mics are always on, and the cameras are always rolling.

Everything you say or do has the potential to end up on social media in one form or another. It’s not fair, but it’s reality.

Somewhere in the Volunteer State on a crisp fall morning I can see a scenario where an angler is sitting in his boat and hooks something. It’s a little heavy, so he’s thinking he is about to reel in the largest fish of all time out of the Tennessee River.

And then he realizes it’s just the goalposts that were carried out of Neyland Stadium and into the night by jubilant fans on the third Saturday of October.

And when you are talking about postseason races, typically we are talking about the best of the best being involved in the event. Even for the rest of the pack, the race is still over within 30 minutes.

New York Yankees star Aaron Judge hit his way into baseball history last Tuesday night, crushing home run No. 62 nearly 400 feet in a road game against the Texas Rangers.

No one cares that the Yankees lost the game 3-2. It’s irrelevant for a team that already had its place in the playoffs locked up.

One of the coolest things about social media is seeing the highlight videos that athletes post.

It really gives you an inside look into how hard they truly work at their craft.

October means scary movies, slightly cooler temperatures and Halloween candy.
It’s also the month the fate of the teams in District 1-4S is determined.

I say that because if a team has any hope of playing deep into the month of November, and, with a little luck, December, it has to take care of business in October.

Ella Nelson of Jay shared a picture on social media of the volleyball roundup that appeared in a recent issue of the Press Gazette. She was in one of the photos that ran with the roundup.

Pace kicker Reice Griffith once shared a picture of the feature story on him from earlier this summer and thanked me for taking the time to write about him.

We were left with a season-opening college football matchup two weeks ago on a Saturday night at Pen Air Field in Pensacola that wasn’t exactly one you’d call even or fair.

No disrespect to Warner, but the NAIA program from South Florida isn’t on the same level as the University of West Florida, an NCAA Division II national power.

It is true what they say that you can go home again.

We’ve seen that locally with recent coaching hires at the high school level.