It’s the best time of the year…I say that as I’m in day two of quarantine with Covid watching college basketball. We’ll get to the Covid in a minute but first, back to the task at hand. It truly is the best time of the year. I may be biased because I’m a basketball fan but being able to watch hoops at a time when my younger self would be watching The Price Is Right with Bob Barker during a midweek sick day is just the bees knees...

In what was easily the top-five coldest games I’ve ever covered, I watched Poplar Bluff fall to Farmington on Tuesday in the semifinals of the Class 3, District 1 tournament at Hillsboro, the Windy City of Missouri. While I stood there wondering when I would have use of my fingers again, I thought back on what the Mules accomplished this season...

Losing sucks. There isn’t really a better way to put it. Losing a loved one, losing a friend and yes, while not comparable in anyway whatsoever, losing a game, sucks. The worst part, for the so very many of you under 21 that I’m sure are reading this column, it doesn’t really get better with age...

After being the sports editor of the Daily American Republic for a few months now, I’ve learned a few things. One of those things being about the legendary Gene Bess. Bess will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame tonight in Springfield, Massachusetts...

After being the sports editor of the Daily American Republic for a few months now, I’ve learned a few things. One of those things being about the legendary Gene Bess. Bess will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame tonight in Springfield, Massachusetts...

Monday brings change. Every single week. As much as we may dread Monday mornings, change isn’t always bad. It’s a chance at a fresh start, something we get about 52 Mondays a year or 53 in a leap year, I’m not sure how that works but anyway...

Last Friday were the 10th annual Semoball Award at La Croix in Cape Girardeau. DAR assistant sports editor D’Courtland Christian and myself were able to attend and celebrate all of the amazing athletes we have in southeast Missouri. I got to meet a couple of the nominees from Poplar Bluff but I mostly just looked around at what had been put together to honor these athletes...

Last Friday, in a meeting at the DAR offices about something coming up that will definitely be on the readers radar...or eardar, someone talked about rivers. They said how just beyond those trees to the east was a river. I was puzzled and perplexed. Just the week prior, I had heard someone else mention a river. Now I may not be the smartest guy but I knew there had to be something with rivers in this area given Three Rivers and Twin Rivers...

In every area, there are some people that seem larger than life. Whether that person is in politics, a business owner, a sports figure or just a good person, every community has someone that has had a profound impact, often bigger than they ever imagined...

Moving to a new place is never easy. You have to find a new place to get coffee, a new barber and pretty much everything else that you’ve gotten accustomed to. Whenever this happens, I try to find a form of comfort somewhere, whatever that may be. Luckily, as a sports writer, my comfort is also my passion...