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Rain finally comes, but delays football games

Mother Nature has done no favors to area football teams this month. After practicing around and through record heat throughout August, many teams opened the season in mid-90-degree temperatures Friday night. Then the weather pulled another trick for some teams â€“ lightning. The rain so many h...

Like it or not, Week 0 is here

Despite an extra week of preseason practice, Traye Aric is not a fan of Week 0 games. I wish I had another week,â€ said the Wilson Central coach, whose Wildcats face one of those Friday night when Franklin County comes to the Glade to open Aricâ€™s second season. â€œIf we get through ...

Blue Devils blast Brentwood

Too bad this one didnâ€™t count. Lebanon moved the ball with relative ease against a solid Brentwood team and kept the high-flying Bruins from doing the same in a 16-0 victory Thursday in the Kickoff Classic at Nokes-Lasater Field. The Blue Devils compiled 146 yards on the ground, including 10...

Wildcats, Purple Tigers blanked in jamboree

GLADEVILLE â€” Wearing a new mumber, J.T. Majors looked like his old self Saturday night. But the Wilson Central senior had a touchdown called back while Ensworth hit one big scoring play and crossed the goal line at the end of a long drive as the Tigers silenced the host Wildcats 13-0 in the ...

Saturday Morning Quarterback

Ran into Watertown mayor Mike Jennings in the elevator lobby at Nashville Superspeedway before the truck race last Saturday. If a proposed schedule change is implemented regarding the Craftsman Truck Series race, I wonâ€™t see Mayor Mike at the track at next yearâ€™s event. A published re...

Some Bulldogs struggle with first-day heat

Tuesdayâ€™s triple-digit temperatures took its toll on three Bulldog players as the full Cumberland squad practiced for the first time this preseason. One player was transported by ambulance and another two by car to a hospital for heat-related problems. Two were released and back on campus la...

Kvapil remembers Hamilton while winning

GLADEVILLE â€” After dominating practice Friday and capturing the pole early Saturday afternoon, Mike Skinner dominated the first two-thirds of the evening race at Nashville Superspeedway. But Travis Kvapil was lurking behind the series points leader and eventually overtook the field to win th...

Clements pulls away for first ARCA win

GLADEVILLE â€” A week after running out of gas at Pocono, Jeremy Clements finished the deal Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway. Several seconds behind, eight-time ARCA RE/MAX Series champion Frank Kimmel was, for this week at least, turning back a points challenge from rookie Michael McDowell...

Rookie snags sixth ARCA pole

GLADEVILLE â€” ARCA rookie Michael McDowell has eight-time champion Frank Kimmel on his hook and has reeled him out of the water. But can he get him into the boat? McDowell made a move to get a little bit closer to Kimmel on Friday by taking his sixth pole of the season for todayâ€™s Toyo...

Saturday Morning Quarterback

Barry Bondsâ€™ passing of Hank Aaron at the top of the career home run list went off as well as possible, all things considered. It happened in San Francisco, where Bonds is revered. There was no booing or any mention of his alleged use of steroids as he bulked up late in his career and posted...