Last week, following a practice we started at the turn of the century, we identified the top sports stories of the year. Here are the picks we made in previous years.
What a difference a year has made! Last December County Executive Steve Neuhaus came home from a military exercise in El Paso. He was about to be deployed to the Middle East.
There was no one in the front part of Colin Schmitt’s headquarters when I visited on Dec. 19. The assemblyman was with a staff member in a different part of his office.
“I still love it,” Greg Schmalz told the audience at the school board meeting. “It will be hard to step away. But I do it with a lot of great memories.”
Numbers have always been a part of baseball. Most fans could tell you the batting average of their favorite player or the number of games won by their favorite pitcher. But statistics have become more sophisticated. And Kedeem Octave has learned how to interpret them.