A three-sport athlete at Livingston High School in the early 1990s, the 37-year-old is an experienced coach at multiple levels, including recreation league football and basketball, varsity boys and girls basketball and a stint as an assistant football coach in Covington County.
He said he looks forward to keeping the sports teams at Hillcrest competitive and hopes to build on the success they’ve already had at the school. With the help of the school’s already experienced coaching staff, he noted that he’s looking forward to having a highly successful athletics program at the school.
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Sixty-four days.
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. 24, when they play Pickens Academy at Billy McGee Stadium in Carrollton.
Hillcrest High School will play its season opener on Fri., Aug. 31, when they travel to Chatom to take on Washington County High School.
The college football season will kick off on Thurs., Aug. 30, with three nationally televised games featuring South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Washington State, BYU, Texas A&M and Louisiana Tech.
The NFL regular season will start with a game between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants on Wed., Sept. 5, with a full slate of games to be played the following Sunday. Preseason games will start in early August.
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Sports fans in the audience who like a good book will be interested to hear that a sports-related book was listed in this week’s Publishers Weekly nonfiction best-sellers list.
According to the list released last Thursday, "Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness” by Scott Jurek was No. 13 on the list.
Jurek, 38, is one of the most dominant ultramarathon runners in the world. Ultramarathons are footraces that are longer than traditional marathons, which are 26.2 miles long. Some ultramarathons are 50 miles long, while others are 100 miles long or longer. This sport is growing in popularity, and Jurek, a native of Minnesota, is one of the leading American runners in the sport.
According to the publisher, “Eat and Run” describes Jurek’s life as an elite athlete and vegetarian. The book contains a lot of practical advice for runners of all levels and is available through retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble for less than $20 a copy.
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As of Monday, the Miami Heat held a 2-1 edge over the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals with Game Four in the series set to take place Tuesday in Miami. Game Five will take place tonight (Thursday) in Miami, and I honestly look for the Heat to win both of those games to take the championship.
If OKC happens to win one or both of those two games, Game Six will be played Sunday in Oklahoma City with Game Seven to follow the following Tuesday in Oklahoma City. The way the Heat played Sunday night, I’ll be shocked if it goes to seven games.
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