Andrew Salmon Sports Editor  With a smile on his face, the boy crept up and innocuously bounced the basketball off the other boy’s back, huddled under the hoop. The victim spun around, grinning too, before he found the offender, dribbling around him in circles. He got down into a defensive stance, knees bent and arms outstretched, and thus began the first basketball game of the … Continue reading Having a Blast with Greensboro’s Summer Night Lights

Andrew Salmon Staff Writer  On a foggy mountaintop in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, a crowd of thousands gathered to watch a kilted handler and his two Collies, Luke and Lucy, herd a flock of sheep back into their pen. “Get down!” the handler hollered to his dogs over a microphone, and instantly, down his well-trained companions went. “Now go back!” Back they went, encircling … Continue reading Celebrating Heritage and History at the Highland Games

Dillon Overby Staff Writer  What an exciting baseball season it has been already, and it’s only halfway over. The All-Star break allows us to reflect on this past season, which has a few delightful surprises and a couple of shocking downfalls. D. Martinez from Boston and Jose Ramirez from Cleveland are leading the league in home runs with 29. Martinez leads the league in runs-batted-in … Continue reading All-Star Break: Recapping the First Half of the MLB Season

Douglas Burns Staff Writer In a quiet bar in Kernersville, NC at 11 a.m., there were three families sitting watching a game that was blasted across all twenty or so large televisions and a projector. While att the main bar, baseball was played on the screens, a few of us gathered to watch professional football. Not the hand-egg kind, where the foot is used once … Continue reading The World Cup Final: France vs Croatia