That’s how long we’ve got to wait until the start of the high school football season.
Hillcrest High School will play its season opener on Fri., Aug. 26, when they travel to Monroeville to take on Monroe County High School.
With that said, we may not have to wait quite that long to enjoy a little football. Sparta Academy’s fall schedule hasn’t been released yet, so it’s possible that they’ll kick off the season sometime before Aug. 26.
Until I hear otherwise, I’m going with the Aug. 26 start date, and the passage of those 78 days will give us something to look forward to as we slog our way through what’s looking like the long, hot summer ahead.
We’ll have to wait even longer for the start of college football. We’ve got 86 days, that is, a little over 12 weeks, remaining until the first Saturday of the college football season.
And your guess is as good as anyone else’s when it comes to when the NFL will kick off. On paper, 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. Whether this will come to pass remains to be seen though due to the on-going labor dispute between team owners and the NFL Players Association, which has resulted in a player lockout.
Sports fans in the audience who like a good book will be interested to hear that a sports-related book is sitting atop this week’s Publishers Weekly nonfiction best-sellers list.
According to the list released last Thursday, "Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN" by James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales replaced "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson as the top book on the hardcover nonfiction best-sellers list.
“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.”
I’m writing this column on Monday, when the Miami Heat had a 2-1 lead over the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals. The Heat barely won on Sunday night, edging out the Mavs, 88-86, in Dallas.
This Game Three win for the Heat is likely a sign of things to come. The Game Three winner in a tied finals has won the championship all 11 times since the 2-3-2 home and away format began in 1985.
The best-of-seven series was scheduled to continue on Tuesday night and tonight (Thursday) in Dallas. If necessary, the sixth and seventh games will be played Sunday and Tuesday in Miami.
Dallas has obviously got a good team, but I don’t think they’ve got what it takes to hang with Miami over a seven game series. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh will prove to be too much for Dirk Nowitzki and company.
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