Month: April 2024
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Rush Propst Will Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Rush Propst will not go gentle into that good night. Some interested parties in Pell City, Alabama, wanted him gone. But the high school football coach’s version of Freddy Krueger lives to coach another day. Propst’s job was on the chopping block during a Pell City board of education special meeting on Wednesday. The school…
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The Sled Don’t Care How You Got Here, Son – It’s Just There to be Pushed
The Sled took up an entire corner of our weight room at Collins Hill High School. It was Coach Jim Tiller’s pride and joy. And it was about to be the bane of all of our strength and conditioning existences. We worked and sweated in a dark room with no windows and fluorescent bulbs that…
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Coffeetown football starts spring practice – without any footballs
Coffeetown starts its state football title defense with the first of 10 spring practice sessions this week. The only problem is that a different bunch of copperheads currently defend the team’s only bag of footballs. “This does happen from time to time. It just got more difficult now ever since the county stopped letting me…