Southern Times, Girls and Sports

Forty-five years ago this year, Stan Musial ended his Hall-of-Fame career with the St. Louis Cardinals, setting club records for hits, home runs, and games played.
Five years after “The Man” retired, the Cardinals in the middle of their pennant-winning 1968 season, decided to forever honor “The Man” by erecting a statue that to this day [...]

One of the things that trouble me about being a junior at a Christian school is the fact that despite the fact that it’s advertised as a Christian school, hypocrites and snitches are still abound and easy to detect.
For the past two weeks, my roommate and I allowed two girls who in so many words, [...]

A week from tomorrow, I will make the journey from peaceful Chicksaw Gardens and back to the rowdiness of my Springdale neighborhood, which is where unfortunately, I lived at until moving to Chickasaw Gardens at the beginning of the year for the summer.
While most of my friends have already packed up and said their last [...]

It seems just like yesterday when I first walked into the halls of Crichton College as a transfer student paying a visit days after Crichton won its first TransSouth championship in basketball.
And it seems just like yesterday when I sat in the Costco at the corner of Hacks Cross and Winchester talking to people about [...]

From 1947 to 1949, the Cardinals reeled off three straight second-place finishes in the National League, mainly because they had injuries they couldn’t overcome or the fact that they lost to teams they should beat.
Fifty-nine years later, I enter the final week of my first year in North Highland Park with a good chance to [...]