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 Swede’s Peeves Fourteen points in the blink of an eye. Last time the Blazer football team traveled to Florence, Ala., turnovers on opening consecutive drives allowed the North Alabama Lions to steal all the chips off the table in the regular season matchup between these teams. One thing’s for sure [...]

Dustin Swedelson Sports Editor dmswedelson@valdosta.edu Sia Poyer, the head coach of VSU’s volleyball team, may seem to be a normal run of the mill coach in college sports; but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Poyer hails from nearly half way around the world. He was born on the tiny island of American Samoa [...]

Dustin Swedelson Sports Editor dmswedelson@valdosta.edu Swede’s Peeves Hey at least Matt Stafford and Knowshown Moreno remembered to put on their uniforms last Saturday. Their success ended there. I believe when tying your cleats, its over under around and through with the laces. Or was that the Gators running style through the Bulldog defense? Is there [...]

Dustin Swedelson Sports Editor dmswedelson@valdosta.edu While the ethnocentric southeast will bill this year’s University of Georgia-University of Florida matchup as the nation’s biggest game, Valdosta State has ties to a game that sees two combined higher ranked teams meeting. The matchup between No. 1 Texas and No. 7 Texas Tech features a chess match between [...]

Dustin Swedelson Sports Editor dmswedelson@valdosta.edu Swede’s Peeves A.J. Milwee will you ever go away? It seems like this guy has been the quarterback at the University of North Alabama for a decade. Now in his senior season, Milwee will host the Valdosta State Blazers for the first time since losing the only two road games [...]

Dustin Swedelson Sports Editor dmswedelson@valdosta.edu Coming off a huge comeback win, the Blazer’s welcome the Harding Bison to town for Homecoming at 1p.m. Saturday. While Senior Tucker Pruitt led the team to a fourth quarter comeback, both Pruitt and Freshman Chris Hart will be used Saturday against a less than stellar Bison defense. “That’s been [...]

Dustin Swedelson Sports Editor dmswedelson@valdosta.edu Swede’s Peeves As the fourth quarter began in Arkadelphia, Ark., it looked like the Blazers would not be around for the 2008 Division II playoffs. Then a fifth year senior, rallied the troops to score 20 unanswered fourth quarter points in one gutsiest comeback performances in Blazer history. For the [...]

For one day a year attending a Valdosta State football game is the main event in town. UGA is irrelevant, the Seminoles are nobodies, Gator might as well be a pregame appetizer. On Homecoming, a Blazer game feels like a big school football game. Croakies and boat shows re-unite in a way almost unknown way [...]

Dustin Swedelson Sports Editor dmswedelson@valdosta.edu The Valdosta State football team takes its first plane trip of the season to Arkadelphia, Ark.  Saturday. The Blazers will square off with underrated Gulf South Conference cellar dweller Henderson State at 4 p.m. Last year after losing to Delta State, VSU pitched a shutout while dropping 37 points on [...]

Dustin Swedelson Sports Editor dmswedelson@valdosta.edu Give me a break Blazer fans. It is shameful that you would have direct contact with Blazer quarterback Chris Hart through messaging and vocally voicing your disgust from last Thursday’s loss to Delta State. It has been brought up that people have made comments to Hart as well as have [...]