That’s how long we’ve got to wait until the start of the high school football season.
Sparta Academy will play its season opener on Fri., Aug. 19, when they play Escambia Academy at Stuart-McGehee Field in Evergreen. Hillcrest High School will play its season opener on Fri., Aug. 26, when they travel to Monroeville to take on Monroe County High School.
We’ll have to wait even longer for the start of college football. We’ve got 72 days, that is, a little over 12 weeks, remaining until the first Saturday of the college football season.
And, if the NFL season starts on time, and I suspect it will, the first game of the 2011 NFL season will be played on Thurs., Sept. 8, and will feature the Saints and the Packers in Green Bay. That’s 76 days away.
Sports fans in the audience who like a good book will be interested to hear that a couple of sports-related books were listed in this week’s Publishers Weekly nonfiction best-sellers list.
According to the list released last Thursday, "Through My Eyes" by Tim Tebow and Nathan Whitaker was No. 7 on the list, and "Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN" by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales was No. 12.
According to its publisher, Harper Collins, in “Through My Eyes,” former “University of Florida star quarterback, 2010 first-round draft pick for the Denver Broncos, and devout Christian Tim Tebow tells the story of his faith, his life, and his career in football. “Written with Nathan Whitaker, the New York Times best-selling coauthor of “Quiet Strength,” with Tony Dungy, “Through My Eyes” gives fans a first look into the heart of an athlete whose talent and devotion have made him one of the most provocative figures in football.”
“Those Guys Have All the Fun” is billed as “comprehensive, behind-the-scenes history of ESPN, one of the most successful media companies of all time.”
In this book, “hundreds of current and former ESPN personalities like Erin Andrews, Michelle Beadle, Chris Berman, Linda Cohn, Tony Kornheiser, Bob Ley, Chris McKendry, Mike & Mike, Keith Olbermann, Dan Patrick, Robin Roberts, Stuart Scott, Bill Simmons, Sage Steele, Hannah Storm, Lesley Visser and Michael Wilbon, speak freely about games, shows, scandals and triumphs.”
The 2011 NBA Draft will begin today (Thursday), and you can watch it live on TV, starting at 7 p.m. on ESPN. You can also watch it online at NBA.com.
According to the mock draft at NBADraft.net on Monday, the experts are predicting that the Cleveland Cavaliers are going to select Duke’s Kyrie Irving as the No. 1 overall pick.
I’ll be watching to see if Evergreen’s Chris Hines, who recently finished his final season at Alabama, will become one of the 60 players taken in this year’s draft.
The mock draft mentioned above, which is among the most respected of its type, had no Alabama (or Auburn) players being picked in the draft, but mock drafts are never perfect.
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