June 9, 2006
Grid stories keep fans interested
Now that it’s June, there are plenty of folks who, if not keeping up with their college baseball teams that are in the super regionals, have turned their collective attention to the upcoming football season.
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Of perogis, moonlit peril and borrowed pants
I’ve eaten many things in my life. I’ve eaten alligator, shark and even tried the mystery meat in the cafeteria. But I’ve never eaten a perogi before Monday night.
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Watauga hosts pair of games
Watauga’s summer baseball team goes back into action this weekend with a trio of games in its own backyard.
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June 7, 2006
Burnett prepared to throw at NCAA finals
Appalachian State shot put thrower Beverly Burnett has a good idea as to why she did not throw her best during the NCAA Track and Field Championships last year at Sacramento, Calif.
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ASU duo invades Canada
It’s tough enough to make the transition from college to the pros. Two former Appalachian State Mountaineers are finding that out firsthand.
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John Tumbleston earns ESPN award
ELON — For the third consecutive year, Elon cross country runner John Tumbleston was named to the 2005-06 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III Men's Track and Field/Cross Country First Team (University Division) Thursday by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
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June 5, 2006
Dream job
Tired of your job? Save yourself the added anguish and stop reading now.
When it comes to sweet jobs, sportswriting has to be right up there, but it has nothing on what Nathan Webber does for his 9 to 5. While the rest of us are at our jobs, thinking of where we’d rather be, Webber is out there doing it. As a fly fishing guide for Foscoe Fishing Co., Webber needs no bumper sticker reading “I’d rather be fishing.” He guides locals, tourists and returning regulars through wade and float trips in northwestern North Carolina and northeastern Tennessee. “It’s a lot better than working in a restaurant,” he said.
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Fly fishing not a fad to local fly fishermen
I remember the Great Fly Fishing Craze of ’92.
Brad Pitt did it in “A River Runs Through It,” and that was that. Suburban warriors clutched their newfangled fly-fishing rods and hit any feasible body of water to emulate their significant others’ dreamy vision of Brad Pitt. Lest they forget “Cool World.”
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Operation Hardwood II
It would be easy to think that Charlotte men’s basketball coach Bobby Lutz may have made an error in judgment when he went to Kuwait with a group of coaches during the final week of May.
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Heat too much for Watauga
Had it not been for bad weather, members of Watauga’s baseball team would have seen their share of varsity opposition last weekend.
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Scotland claims 4-A title
RALEIGH — Nick Liles had three hits and Scott Myers drove home four runs as Scotland downed South Caldwell 10-5 in the third and final game of the NCHSAA 4-A baseball championship series at N.C. State University’s Doak Field Sunday afternoon.
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June 2, 2006
Gone fishing
Work and pleasure are one in the same for Scott Farfone. Then again, when one spends his days fly fishing on the Watauga River, such a notion is only logical.
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Fly fishing hooks Democrat reporter
I don’t think the Irish poet Seamus Heaney was writing about fly fishing, because the gathering he describes is far louder and abrasive than the line I gathered Tuesday on the Boone Fork of the Watauga River. But I like to think if Heaney ever spent a day fly fishing in the mountains, he would spend at least the next day writing intensely about it.
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Bentley jumps to ASU
Watauga wrestling coach JohnMark Bentley will finally have a full squad working under him this year, but it won’t be at Watauga High School.
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Williams named top athlete
HILTON HEAD, S.C. — For the sixth time in school and conference history, Appalachian State is the winner of both the Southern Conference’s Commissioner’s and Germann Cups, presented annually to the league’s top all-around men’s and women’s all-sports programs.
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