By Thomas Sellers Jr. Exiting the Brighton Gymnasium court Friday night, a couple of Munford Cougars carried their teammate Queyon Mills toward the locker room like a championship trophy. The reason for the Cougar jubilation was Mills coming up clutch in the final seconds of the District 13-3A rivalry game against the host Brighton Cardinals….
By Thomas Sellers Jr. Coming off the court Friday night, Brighton Head Coach Kent Cates was impressed. “They’re good,” the leader of the Lady Cardinals said of his opponents. “This Munford team is better than the one two years ago that reached Sectionals.” The Munford Lady Cougars made that impression on Cates defeating his Lady…
By Thomas Sellers Jr. The 2014 holiday season was good to the Tipton-Rosemark Academy Lady Rebels. The Lady Rebels gave Head Coach Keith Cox a gift with a big league win over Rossville, only the Lady Wolves second defeat of the season. Then TRA travel to the Magnolia Heights Christmas Tournament earning the Consolation Bracket…
By Thomas Sellers Jr. When Tipton-Rosemark Academy Rebel guard Johnie “Basketball” Sanfratello banked in a last-second three-point to tie the game at 56-56, many in the TRA Gymnasium started to have high hopes that the Rebels would complete a great comeback. Trailing by as many as 15 points in the fourth quarter to the Memphis…
By Thomas Sellers Jr. Two traditions joined forces last month at the Payless ShoeSource in Millington. Dec. 20 marked the fifth year of Dream Interfaith Ministries (a 501(c) 3 non-profit) conducted the Holiday Shoe Giveaway. And for several years the Sigma Lambda Lambda Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity have participated in charitable efforts…
By Jason Alderman The phrase “downsizing for retirement” is popular with Baby Boomers, the youngest of whom turned 50 last year. It sparks a conversation about transition, which may include buying fewer new things, selling, gifting or donating possessions that are no longer needed and relocating to smaller quarters to create a more comfortable and…
By Thomas Sellers Jr. Life has it’s ups and downs. Although we are assigned family in our journey to the finish line, we cross paths with others who determine how far we can go in life. Some people we physically interact with and others impact us from afar. In a week, I lost a journalism…
By David Peel As an injury attorney, I often have to tell my clients some shocking news: in cases where they recover medical bills from an at fault third party, they may have to pay back some of their proceeds to their health insurance company. It makes sense on paper. The health insurance didn’t cause…
By Jim Rast For by thy words thou shall be justified, and by thy words thou shall be condemned. Matthew 12:37 The Ten Commandments are words. They were penned by the finger of God. How important are they? Are these words in the Ten Commandments of God warnings? Are they meaningless? Out of date? Did…
By Otis Griffin Now a days it seems like the only way you get to visit with folks you have known a life time is at a funeral. Well, maybe at the hospital when you bump in to a friend or maybe relatives of an old friend. What we have taken for granted is catching…
