Upon Further Review

How to label the 2008 sports year in Augusta County is both an easy and, let’s be honest here, hurtful choice.

As much as we would like to tell you that 2008 was a year kids did great things, brought pride to local high schools and gave it all on the field, it’s sad to admit that it was hoity-toity administrators, schedule makers that couldn’t schedule-make themselves out of an over-boiled sausage casing and parents, sigh, yes, “those” kind of parents, that ruled the year.

If you wanted to sum up 2008, call it the Year of Adults Acting All Wild.

Ideas? I loves ‘em. (And yes, I meant to type “loves” instead of “love.“)

Ideas are where all good things start and, even if said idea is still just a Word document sent as an e-mail attachment one night last week, it’s the step in the right direction. And this idea, straight from the mind, onto the computer and sent in an e-mail from R.E. Lee defensive coordinator Mike Roark, is a doozy

And it’s not a PlayStation3, the Blade Runner deluxe edition on Blu-Ray or a 65-inch, plasma-screen TV.

How do I know this? Because those three things are what I both want and need. No. Not yours.

The moment was too much to pass up writing about.

One girl. Two shots. Time expired and a win on the line.

Wilson Memorial boys basketball team does what it’s supposed to do against Waynesboro. Actually, if we may be so bold, it did what is has to do if the Green Hornets hope to stay in contention when the lights turn on, the guys climb out of the tree stands and Shenandoah District play gets rolling along.