Expansion Redux 07/30/07 We saw something last week not seen in quite a while. Four years, actually. What used to as annual a right of Spring as Opening Day and senior proms is back. That would be Conference Expansion Season. Every year after the NCAA basketball extravaganza finished its run, Conference Expansion Season would crank up. Message [...]

A-Line Extra Hoo football coach and Great NFL Legend algroh met Wednesday with Roanoke Times sportswriter Doug Doughty. They met at the Boar’s Head Inn. As algroh put his favorite song on the jukebox, Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ and glanced over as Hoo Athletic Director Craig ‘Tubby, it just goes on and on with this guy’ [...]

One of the Vick boys is in trouble again. The rumors that had been dogging the elder Vick for months have now sprouted canines, as Michael finds himself on the wrong side of a dog fighting indictment. Reading about the various troubles Michael and Marcus manage to get themselves into gets just a little tiresome. The [...]

It was an eventful week. Things were set in motion that led to my achieving a greater understanding of certain Apple commercials. There also popped up on the Net some rather harsh words concerning the abilities of everybody’s favorite Great NFL Legend. And they [me, actually] call it the Dead Zone. First off, there was the [...]

The end of June brought us one week closer to the start of another football season. We now have nine weeks to wait. It also brought another event that are as annual as football seasons, my family reunion. The gathering was of the descendents of Richard Cephas Alderson and Sallie Brown Adams, a line begun a [...]