“2010 YEAR IN REVIEW ”

Each year’s last edition of The Times is a look back at the year’s highlights. As I spent some time pulling together what I viewed as the sports highlights from the past year I once again realized that we have a lot of good sports programs in our county. So as you thumb through the sports section this week take time to relish the many sports accomplishments that occurred in our county this year.

Of course there is no way to include each and every sports highlight that occurred during the year. Time and space just would not allow us to do so. And I am sure that there are some highlights that some of you might feel that should have been included but were not.

My process for making these selections is fairly simple. I flip through each paper’s sports section for the past year and jot down those stories that I think are highlights. Then, usually because of space limitations, there is some culling of that list.

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“Randy’s Rowdies - Part I

As you might expect I travel around the county on a frequent basis. This allows me to form an opinion as to who has the best cheering sections. The Malone vs Marianna game two weeks ago in Malone was certainly a great crowd that was rocking on both sides. A few years ago the Cottondale Hornets had the “Let’s Get Cruncked Up” crowd that was pretty good.

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Turn Out The Lights

On Monday morning I was saddened to hear the news of the passing of Don Meredith. “Dandy Dan” as we knew him died Sunday at the age of 72. For many the passing of Meredith was just another ex-athlete/broadcaster who had died and in doing so made the news. Meredith was much more than just an ex-athlete/broadcaster to me. As a young teenager Meredith was one of the main reasons I looked forward to Monday Night Football in it’s early days. For those of you who are too young or unfamiliar, Meredith served as one of the commentators on ABC’s Monday Night Football over a period of 14 years.

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“It’s About Time”

If you have ready my column on any regular basis you know that I have several soap boxes that I climb up on every now and then. Of course, some folks would say that at 5’5” I need to climb up on a soap box more often just to be seen and heard.

One of the soap boxes that I have stood on for several years now has to do with the issue of public school athletic programs having to compete against athletic programs from private schools. Over the last few years I’ve written several columns about this subject and have outlines the various advantages that I think private school athletic programs have over the public school athletic programs.

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