That’s a great honor, and it’s nice to see someone with Conecuh County connections being recognized for their accomplishments.
I’ve always thought that the late Wendell Hart would make a fine addition to the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame. The selection committee always recognizes someone each year for the Hall’s “oldtimer” category. This year’s oldtimer selectee was former Baldwin County High School football coach, Lyle “Bull” Underwood.
Hart’s sports life in Conecuh County spanned decades. Anyone who’s read our regular sports flashback feature over the past several years will have seen that Hart was not only a successful football, basketball and baseball coach, but he also excelled in those sports as a player.
Hart touched many lives, and there are still many of Hart’s former players and teammates in the community and elsewhere who have fond memories of Hart.
With that said, I am also sure that we also have a future hall of famer in our midst as well – current Hillcrest High School athletics director and head football coach, Larry Boykin.
Boykin came to Hillcrest last year already as one of the most successful prep football coaches in the state’s history, and his impact on Hillcrest’s football program was immediate. His resume features a long list of noteworthy and outstanding accomplishments, and he’ll be a shoe-in for the Hall of Fame when his time comes.
The first two rounds of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament are over, and 16 teams are left to battle it out for the national championship.
Teams left to compete in the third round today (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday) include Ohio State, Kentucky, Marquette, North Carolina, Duke, Arizona, Connecticut, San Diego State, Kansas, Richmond, VCU, Florida State, Butler, Wisconsin, BYU and Florida.
I look for Ohio State, North Carolina, Duke, San Diego State, Kansas, Florida State, Wisconsin and Florida to play their way into the Elite Eight.
Teams that I expect to see in the Final Four include Ohio State, Duke, Kansas and Florida. I look for Ohio State to edge by Duke and for Kansas to beat Florida, setting up a showdown between Ohio State and Kansas for the national title.
Ohio State has arguably been the best team in the nation all season, and I look for them to beat Kansas in the finals barring something unexpected, like an injury.
Of course, we’ll have to wait nearly two weeks to find out because the national title game won’t be played until Mon., April 4, which will leave us plenty of time to debate the outcome.
I read this week in Ripley’s Believe It or Not! that Oscar Swahn, a Swedish shooter, was 60 years old when he won his first Olympic gold medal in 1908, and he later became the oldest competing Olympian ever at age 72, winning a silver medal.
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