Gadsden State softball replenishes roster
By Chris McCarthy/Editor
With only one sophomore on the roster this past spring, Scott Sanderson knew that his first season as Gadsden State softball coach would be a learning experience for both he and his players.
Most of the dust from the Lady Cardinals’ 14-39 season (7-17 in conference play) has settled, and Sanderson spent the past few months
Craig Ford – Opposing gambling legislation protects gambling interests
Last week, Gov. Robert Bentley announced that he would not include any gambling proposals in the call for a special legislative session later this year. I believe Gov. Bentley is wrong to refuse to include gambling in the call for a special session, and I will introduce a gambling bill when the legislature returns to Montgomery.
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In & around SEC baseball
The University of Virginia defeated Vanderbilt, 4-2, in the finals of the College World Series on Wednesday (June 24) for the first baseball national championship in school history.
The Cavaliers avenged last season’s loss to the Commodores in the finals.
Despite reaching the championship series last year, this version of the Cavaliers had limited expectations entering this season.
Vanderbilt
Kitchens hosts 16th annual football camp
By Mike Goodson/Sports Correspondent Last Saturday (June 20) in Attalla, Freddie Kitchens returned to Jim Glover Field at Etowah Stadium to host his 16th annual football camp. A standout two-sport athlete for the Blue Devils in the early 1990s, Kitchens went on to play both football and baseball for the University of Alabama. Kitchens had […]
1985 Gadsden State baseball team observes 30th anniversary of state title
By Mike Goodson/Sports Correspondent
It has now been 30 years since the Gadsden State Community College “Confederates,” as they were called at the time, won the Alabama Junior College Conference Northern Division baseball championship, the AJCC state title and a berth in the NJCAA tournament. A group of mainly local athletes and coaches added to Gadsden being known as
In & around SEC baseball
A season ago, Vanderbilt defeated Virginia in the NCAA College World Series to capture the first baseball national championship in school history. Now, the Commodores and Cavaliers are on track to face each other again for the national title in Omaha.
Virginia beat both Arkansas and Florida to reach the semifinals of the CWS and have two chances to
Women’s Air Race Classic to pass through Gadsden
By Sarrah Peters News Editor On June 22, over 50 all women flight teams from all over the United States will leave from Fredericksburg, Va. in the Women’s Air Race Classic. From there they will travel to nine other airports in seven different states before stopping in Gadsden at the last stop before the race’s […]
Pious Bob – The Strength and Protection in Patience
In 1-Peter 2:1-10, Peter pulls the worldly rug out from under us in saying: “Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation–if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.”
In one statement Peter
Craig Ford -The Legislature’s Failures Keep On Coming
There have been a lot of things said about the state’s legislative session that just ended. But no one is calling it a success (at least not anyone who wants to maintain any credibility).
From the legislature’s failure to pass a General Fund budget, to the Republicans’ inability to agree among themselves on a solution to the budget crisis,