This might prove to be an exercise in futility, because it’s nearly impossible to *know* anything based on one game in August, but high school football is all about tradition, and trying to make sense of what happens every Friday night in the fall has been a tradition since this website launched in 2017.
Category: Columns
(Finally) Five Things I Think I Know From Week 3 Of The HSFB Season
It’s Monday evening, and I still haven’t posted a Five Things I Think I Know from Week 3 of the high school football season.
Lowco Lowdown – Aug. 21
It’s Monday morning, which means it’s time for the Lowco Lowdown, your one-stop quick read to get up to speed on what happened last week on the local sports scene and what to look forward to this week. Here are this week’s hottest sports topics in the Lowcountry, aside from the solar eclipse, of course (please don't look directly at the sun, or you will no longer be able to read LowcoSports.com):
Five Things I Think I Know: HSFB Week 1
Well, Week 1 (the #NoWeekZero revolution will not be televised, but it might be live-tweeted) of the high school football season is almost in the books.
Five Things I Think I Know: Region 8-3A Scrimmage Edition
When you’ve covered sports as long as I have, you come to realize that knowledge is relative and fleeting. Some things you’re sure you know one week will be laid to waste the next, replaced with new hypotheses that are sure to be contradicted in time.
Lowco Lowdown – Aug. 7
It’s Monday morning, which means it’s time for the Lowco Lowdown, your one-stop quick read to get up to speed on what happened last week on the local sports scene and what to look forward to this week. Here are this week’s hottest sports topics in the Lowcountry:
Lowco Lowdown – July 31
It’s Monday morning, which means there’s a whole weekend of sports news to digest and another big week ahead. Welcome to the maiden voyage of the Lowco Lowdown, your weekly glance at the local sports news you need to know to start your week. Here are the hottest local sports topics for the week of July 31:
Column: Players Amateur Always Brings Back Good Memories
This time of year tends to be nostalgic for me.
Column: Don’t Take For Granted Wealth Of Sporting Opportunities For Our Kids
At the risk of showing my age – and sounding like I’m complaining of walking to school in the snow, uphill both ways – let me tell you about my childhood as a sports-crazed boy in rural Kansas.
Keys To Recruiting Landscape Are Being Realistic, Casting A Wide Net
A few years ago when I was covering high school sports full-time, I got a call from a local tennis coach letting me know one of his players was going to sign a letter-of-intent to play in college that afternoon.