High School Sports

Gonna veer off course a little bit here, and mention a favorite of mine. And that is high school sports. It sorta applies to mayor stuff, as high school sports is something that often binds a town together. You can certainly get a lot of community pride in a sports team. Going back to the Roland Rockets and their state championship runs in the 50s. Older folks sure know that story.

I was going to mention a couple links I like that deal with high school sports. One is www.mouthofthemidwest.com. Marty Tirrell and the gang do a good job of covering sports in Central Iowa. They have been covering a lot of baseball, including a Roland-Story game this past weekend.

Another is IowaPreps.com. A lot of the site is a pay site, but you can read the message boards and such. It is a good way of getting the skinny on high school sports around the state.

And then of course my personal fave www.roland-story.com. As you may or may not know, I do color and some play-by-play on there of Norsemen sports. Nobody covers Roland-Story better. Paul Clark runs it and it has morphed away from his old NorsemenNetwork.com.

If you haven't gone out to see our softball team here in Roland, or the baseball team in Story City, do so before the season ends. It doesn't get much better than a summer night at the ball yard.