Category: Sports Columns

It maybe a day late, and the money is most definitely short, but the fall sporting season has been unfortunately disappointing, and “Where has all the winning gone?” isn’t an unreasonable question to ask.
                The Valdosta football Blazers are 4-4 and gave up the most points ever, 62, in a home game, while the volleyball [...]

Last Thursday, the Valdosta State Blazers (4-4, 4-3 GSC) were eliminated from playoff contention when the No.  1 ranked North Alabama Lions (9-0, 7-0 GSC) came to Bazemore-Hyder Stadium and beat the Blazers in all aspects of the game, 62-27.
                The loss for the Blazers was the worst lost in the program’s history which started [...]

Open Mike
Sports Column
By: Michael Wilson
In Valdosta, winning is a custom, tradition is a way of life, and excellence is always expected. That in mind, the anticipation of good things to come on the football field and the volleyball court are far from unusual. While the Valdosta football Blazers have a history of solid play and [...]

Guest Column
Karah-Leigh Hancock
Editor-in-Chief
kphancoc@valdosta.edu
Whether you watch NASCAR or not, you have probably heard about the event that happened this past Sunday at the Talladega Sprint Cup race. If you haven’t, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcCWhltnS2E
The news has been on shows that don’t even talk about NASCAR like “Larry King” and “Ellen.”
Here’s what happened: Carl Edwards, No. 99 was [...]

Lee Johnson
Managing Editor
gljohnson@valdosta.edu
Sports Column
War Eagle! Gooooo  Dawgs! Sic ‘em! Rambilin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer! All three can be heard on a fall Saturday anywhere on VSU’s campus. Purple and yellow, orange and blue and, yes, even the crimson and white of Alabama can be seen on a daily basis [...]

For the last six semesters I have shoved my sports opinion down your throat through The Spectator. In that time complaints, pats on the back, yelling and laughter has ensued. For those of you I have offended, I do not apologize. My job as a columnist has been to draw any type of emotions and reactions from you based on what I think. So I only apologize to those I haven’t offended.

Dustin Swedelson
Sports Editor
dmswedelson@valdosta.edu
SPORTS COLUMN

The Blazer football team takes its first road trip as defending National Champions this weekend as it heads to Newberry, SC. For the 14th straight quarter, VSU held Fort Valley State University touchdown-less last Saturday, but now must prove their 56-3 domination was no fluke.
Newberry College, currently ranked 20th in the [...]

Zac Case
Sports Writer
zrcase@valdosta.edu

SPORTS COLUMN

I love food. Oh yes, nothing makes me happier than stuffing my face with delectable delights. Most people eat because they don’t want to die. I eat because I want to live. It’s that important.

And, although we would like to think we live in an unbiased world, I will confess all [...]

It’s one thing when you give yourself a nickname; it’s another when the nation decides. That is precisely what happened over the summer as ESPN named Valdosta TitleTown, USA.

Dustin Swedelson
Staff Writer
dmswedelson@valdosta.edu
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Sports Column
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As the Lady Blazer basketball team heads into the Gulf South Conference Tournament, they give opponents a variety of players to prepare for. Teams right now are thinking of how to deal with Khaleh Thomas under the basket and how to stop Carley Peterson from the outside and avoid her on the [...]

Sports Column
David Hudson
dmhudson@valdosta.edu
Previous Match up: The New York Giants will get a second chance to end the New England Patriots’ run at the first ever 19-0 season this Sunday at Superbowl XLII in Phoenix, Ariz. In their last regular season game, the Patriots came back from a fourth quarter deficit against these same Giants to [...]