By SunsetBeach on 1/2/2007 7:20 PM

I can honestly say I have never pictured myself as a blogger. When I started writing about high school football in 1982, it was on a portable typewriter. By 1984, I had migrated to a job as a sportswriter and a huge CRT screen that magically took our text and turned it into copy for manual layout of the Sports section. To say the idea of the Internet and blogs was beyond our imagination would be, well beyond our imagination.

I go by the moniker of Sunset Beach, one of my favorite places and haunts - although I spend most of my time in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, where I live. As you can probably tell, I grew up in Concord and graduated from CHS in 1978. Aftre doing the collegiate equivalent of Cain from Kung Fu for a few years, from 1982-1999, I covered high school football in North Carolina in one fashion or another. In the early days it was that typewritten newsletter, "Best of the West," published (if you can call it that) from Boone. From 1983-1985, ... Read More »