Writes like Twain, Sounds like Clower
Bubba Shakespeare

The basics of football are quite simple, put your hand in the dirt, focus on your task, fire off the ball and never stop moving your feet.   So how do you go from a good football team to great?   Writer William Arthur Ward once wrote “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”   The 2017 South Granville Vikings Football team may want to consider having this quote inscribed on the walls of their locker room.   You might not notice it by looking at their record, or checking the weekly scores, but if you take a closer look on the back of their helmets you can see the reminder of days that didn’t go as planned.   October of 2017 was filled with those days, and will likely go down as one of the most memorable months in the lives of this year’s players and coaches. From football fields to farm fields and heart attacks to heartbroken, this group of young men took the opportunity to turn tragedy into something positive. The Tar-Heel Foot l...

From where it began, Freshman Year, 2010 Dear Andy, I wanted to take a moment to write you a quick note and tell you happy birthday, but then I stopped to think about the last 18 years, and well, you guessed it, so much for a quick note. The last year has been  incredibly special for me, and one that I'm not sure you will fully understand until you're much older. I hope you hold on to this letter, and when the day comes you can read it again, and finally understand how valuable you are to the lives of others. I'll start by giving you some advice for when your son becomes a senior, and he starts to think about college and his path for the future. The first thing I can tell you, don’t let him decide too quickly. Encourage him to apply to lots and lots of schools, because if he does, then you can go with him to visit em all, and that my son, is where the joy begins. Over the last year, you and I have had the good fortune to log a few hundred miles in an old Honda...