Gaston’s Collins signs with Faulkner
By Chris McCarthy/Editor
Braxton Collins is leaving Shinbone Ridge for the Capitol City.
On Mar. 20, the Gaston High School senior signed a letter of intent to play football at Faulkner University in Montgomery.
A four-year starter at running back and linebacker, Collins this season rushed for a team-high 1,010 yards and 13 touchdowns while racking up 111 tackles.
Local teams ranked in Mar. 27 ASWA high school softball, baseball polls
BASEBALL
CLASS 6A
1. Sparkman
2. Thompson
3. Opelika
4. Huntsville
5. Pelham
6. Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa
7. Hoover
8. Buckhorn
9. Hewitt-Trussville
10. Central-Phenix City
CLASS 5A
1. Spanish Fort
2. Southside
3. Cullman
4. St. Paul’s
5. Hartselle
6. Briarwood Christian
7. Etowah
8. Muscle Shoals
9. Pinson Valley
10. Homewood
CLASS 4A
1. Charles Henderson
2. Oneonta
Eagles’ Haas participates in AL/MS game
By Chris McCarthy/Editor Hokes Bluff’s Issac Haas added one more highlight to his high school basketball resume last week. The 7-2, 300-pound senior center scored six points and grabbed five rebounds in 13 minutes of action in Alabama’s 90-83 victory in the 24th annual Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Game on Mar. 21 at Jackson State University. Alabama, which […]
Yellow Jackets dispatch Hokes Bluff
By Chris McCarthy/Editor Glencoe scored eight unanswered runs en route to an 8-3 victory over Glencoe in high school baseball on Monday (Mar. 24) at GHS. The Yellow Jackets (8-7) took the lead for good on Taylor Daugherty’s two-run double in the bottom of the fifth inning, then tacked on four more scores in the […]
In & around SEC men’s basketball
SEC Tournament Recap
Florida Gators defeated Kentucky, 61-60, in the SEC Tournament championship game last Sunday (Mar. 16) in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome. Florida head coach Billy Donovan captured his fourth tournament championship, his first since 2007. Including the regular season, Florida finished 21-0 in the SEC.
The Gators defeated Missouri and Tennessee to reach the championship game. Kentucky knocked off
Gaston High grad to appear on NBC
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent
Jimmy Bogle wants to accomplish something no American has ever done – complete the obstacle course on the NBC television show, “American Ninja Warrior.”
“Two Japanese have completed the course,” Bogle said. “But so far, no American has made it that far.”
The course is set up to test the agility, upper body strength, grip strength, etc., of the
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Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by mortgage executed by Donald Vargas to Franklin Doys Stevens dated October 7, 2010, and filed for record in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Etowah County, Alabama, on October 7, 2011, as Instrument #3356294; as corrected in
Shame on them!
Budgets are about priorities. Whether it’s your personal budget or the state’s budgets, we find a way to pay for the things that are most important. What we have learned this year is that a pay raise for our educators and retirees is not important to the leadership in the Alabama legislature.
Just compare the budget proposed by Gov. Robert Bentley