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 send out for Father’s Day down the road.

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.

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.

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 scoring and rebounding average that is good for a double-double almost every night, or a rushing or passing total that translates into a touchdown on every drive.

Maybe you noticed and maybe you didn’t, but some of the people involved in the decision making efforts when it comes to high school athletics did something right earlier this month with boys weightlifting.

Two regions in the state were divided into sub-regions, including one locally.

Scrolling through Twitter late one evening ahead of my trip home for my father’s visitation and funeral, I came across a post I was tagged in by an athlete.

He posted a video of himself throwing a football to his dad in the backyard and mentioned me, stating that he would be dedicating his first touchdown of the 2022 high school football season to my dad.