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It might come as a surprise that Mark Peach is winging it this football season.

A stickler for details in preparation, Peach has been known to spend countless hours studying film looking for ways to make his team more perfect and finding flaws in an opponent’s armor. There’s a reason he’s the winningest coach in Anderson football history and has been named the state’s Coach of the Year more than once. That preparation played a key role in advancing to three regional championship games in four years.

With a new statewide football alignment taking effect last year, it was widely assumed that Class 5A’s District 6 would be little more than a coronation for Anderson County.

After all, the Bearcats had advanced at least to the regional finals four of the previous five years and seemed to be simply reloading. Meanwhile, none of the other three district teams had experienced much success over the previous decade.

Someone forgot to tell Madison Southern.

Notes scribbled after trying to watch football at home Sunday night...

Has there ever been a more bizarre scene than the one that unfolded for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game?

Admittedly, I am not a huge fan of the pre-season games, especially the early part of August. Most of the time, the games are being played by rookies along with veterans who have been cut by one team and are trying to make an impression with another.

It’s not the highest quality of pro football, but it’s...

Football.

Beth McFarland does not claim to be a football expert but she knew something was wrong when she attended one of her son’s practices at Anderson County Middle School recently.

“The blocking sled pads were literally falling off,” she says. “They were in terrible shape.”

McFarland’s husband, Tommy, is a welder, so he volunteered to repair the frame of the five-station sled, but replacing the pads will cost money. Quite a bit of money that the program does not have.