Archive for the ‘sports’ Category

$5 Parking for the Wyndham Golf Tournament

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

For a $5 donation to the cause you can park at Furniture Connection located at 5732 High Point Road. Included is a half mile brisk walk down Suttonwood Road to the course. I'm diversifying.

The Case Of The Missing Porta-Potties

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

How often do you hear porta-potties mentioned at city council meetings? Thanks to Keith Brown for the clip. You may think it's an amusing topic...unless you were one of the more than 12,000 people in town last weekend for the 2010 Wrangler/McDonald's Youth Soccer Classic that had to pee. An 8 AM ...

Selling Mark McGwire Memorabilia

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Who wants this one of a kind framed remembrance of Mark McGwire breaking baseball's home run record? Click on the photo to view a larger version. It's a 25x35 framed (value of frame est. $400) memory that includes the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from Sept. 8th, 1998. ...

1989 State Champions

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Recently the Furniture Connection Men's Softball team won the ASA State Championship held in Marion, NC. Recently meaning two decades ago. I can still remember the line drive to our shortstop, Glenn Brooks, that ended the championship game. We peaked at the right time and beat teams that had hammered us all ...

The 2nd Annual Howard Coble Golf Classic Oct. 23rd

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

   

The Wyndham at Sedgefield just felt right.

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Hard to explain but having Greensboro's golf tournament just felt right being at Sedgefield. Kinda like smelling hot dogs at the baseball stadium. Plus I like being able to walk to the tournament. I ran into Rudy Binder and John Hammer at the seventh tee and as soon as I took ...

Carolina Panthers Need New Head Coach

Monday, August 18th, 2008

I'm saying it before the first play of the season. The Panthers need a new head coach. Besides coaching the under achievers of the century he should have been fired on the spot when he took responsibility for the most boneheaded play in the history of the NFL (including back yard ...

Will the NY Yankees Pick Up Barry Bonds?

Friday, July 25th, 2008

According to the AP Hank Steinbrenner is considering adding Barry Bonds to the Yankees roster. As a huge Boston Red Sox fan I find it very disappointing they didn't get him signed before today's start of a three game series at Fenway. I'd love to see the Fenway faithful welcome Barry to ...