Mark the calendars. On June 2nd, 2010, legendary outfielder and ambassador for the game, Ken Griffey Jr. has announced his retirement from Major League Baseball.
You could not ask for a better guy to represent a game. Griffey Jr. embodied what it is to be a role model. He excelled on the field, stayed out of trouble off the field and was a genuinely nice guy. Over his 22 seasons as a Major League Baseball player, Griffey Jr. hit 630 home runs, drove in 1836 runs, had a career batting average …
When I was working at the Sports Editor for The Patriot Press, I was lucky enough to run into NFL safety Clinton Hart at a high school game I was covering for the St. Petersburg Times. I spoke with Hart at the game, and then again a few times on the phone. Hart had played college baseball at Central Florida Community College, so I started a series where we monitored Hart’s progress in the NFL–as he was the first pro athlete to ever come from CFCC. This is the introduction …
This is a piece I wrote during my time with the Citrus County Chronicle. It is about a brother and sister–Matt & Mettina Maggiore–who both excelled in the classroom and in multiple sports. I always enjoyed writing features better than game coverage because it was always more personal. I can say in all my year’s of covering sports, two of the better athletes I ever had the honor of interviewing.
My incredible NFL prediction skills…not!
For the first time in 8 years, I was able to watch every minute of every NFL Playoff game throughout the course of an entire weekend. Being that I was a slave to retail management since I was 19, of course, I never got my weekends off.
Now that I am working as an internet marketer in training, I have my weekends free.
When I sat down to make my picks for the weekend however, it seems though, that I forgot one very unavoidable rule:in the NFL playoffs, anything …
During the early 2000′s, no women’s soccer team in central Florida could keep up with the Citrus High School Lady ‘Canes. They had a dominate program, and had several players move on to play at the collegiate level. This game was a great example of their skills.
Thomas Gemkow
Sports Correspondent
The Citrus Lady ‘Canes dominated every aspect of the game as they shut out the North Marion Colts 9-0 in soccer action Friday night.
“We came out sluggish but picked it up in the second half. It’s nice to get ahead by as …
