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Unwelcome reality: coaching students through daunting times (High School Sports ~ 04/30/20)
Leadership makes a difference, now and in the future Greg McCullough had just arrived inside MTSU's Murphy Center for the Thursday games at the Tennessee Girls’ State Basketball Championships. But as the Memphis Central principal and TSSAA Board of Control Vice President would soon come to find out, the sports world and society writ large had begun the painful process of shutting down social activities due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. The pandemic was raging and closing in fast on the storied Glass House. -
TSSAA addresses summer sports activities (High School Sports ~ 04/30/20)
Executive Director Bernard Childress and the TSSAA state office staff are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on interscholastic athletics in Tennessee. Due to the ongoing social distancing efforts, the Board of Control's three-day meeting originally scheduled for June in Murfreesboro has been cancelled. The Board will take into consideration the items from the June agenda at the August meeting. The first day of the June meeting was to be set aside for a classification study session. Instead of a face-to-face meeting, each Board member will be sent the plans they requested to review with the goal of holding the classification study session in late July. -
Osteen, Lintz, Band of Blue, fun on the pitch, and basketball on the horizon (High School Sports ~ 04/30/20)
The beginning of the 2007-2008 prep school season was my second year covering sports in Marshall County and it turned out to be full of great memories that included a visit to Chapel Hill by one of my boyhood idols, a fantastic performance on the golf course by a future Milwaukee Brewer farmhand, an unbelievable band competition, and the first half of a return to glory by the Marshall County Tigerettes. -
Bobby Glendale Adams
(Obituary ~ 04/30/20)
Bobby Glendale Adams, 87, of Murfreesboro, died Wednesday, April 29, 2020, at his residence. He was a native of Marshall County, the son of the late Robert Leon and Pearl Wright Adams. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Josephine Adams, and brothers, Joe Loyd Adams and Earl Adams...
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