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BAILEY'S TAKE
ON PIRATE SPORTS
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From the Anchor Desk
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
By Brian Bailey |
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Summertime is slow time
By
Brian Bailey
©2008 Bonesville.net
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Just the other day I
made a comment that
football season seemed
to be just around the
corner. I told someone
that the bowl game
always made a big
difference on just how
long it seemed to take
to get to the next
football season.
Then we hit late June
and this week we entered
July.
All of a sudden it was
like the sports world
took a snooze. Everybody
is either on vacation or
in sleep mode for the
summer. There’s no real
news coming out of
Pirate land, which makes
for some really slow
days in sports.
I’ve been relatively
busy as we try to hire a
weekend sportscaster to
join my staff at Channel
9. Until then, it’s just
me. It’s still the best
job in the world, but
even the best job is
still a job.
We hope to have someone
by the end of the month,
just in time for the
start of Touchdown
Friday (our high school
football show) and, of
course, for Pirate
football.
This is a particularly
slow week, with the July
4th holiday on Friday.
Many are turning a long
weekend into a vacation
week.
Soon enough, we’ll have
our run of Little
League, Cal Ripken, Babe
Ruth, etc., all-star
tournaments in eastern
North Carolina. Don’t
get me wrong. These are
exciting times for these
little ones, who really
get their first taste of
being on a team from an
individual town or area.
However, I’ve learned
through the years that a
television station the
size of ours can’t cover
every one of these
events.
We always promise to get
what we can, but we also
know that with each
passing day we move
closer and closer to
football season.
July is the longest
month. The days are
long. It takes 31 days
to get through it. But
when we finally get to
August we all know that
the eighth month of the
year includes a football
game at the end.
I love baseball, even
the major league
variety. It gets us
through the summer. But
there is just something
magical about football.
I just think it’s the
buildup each and every
week. We spend the first
part of the week looking
for answers from the
past Saturday. We then
spend the last part of
the week trying to
figure out what we’ll
see on the upcoming
Saturday.
The weekly press
conferences with Coach
Skip Holtz are always
entertaining. By the end
of the season, I’m sure
he’s tired of all of us.
He’s great to work with
and makes the football
season that much more
entertaining.
Media day for Pirate
football will come early
in August. We’ll have
our first luncheon with
Coach Holtz on August
25th, getting set for
the Virginia Tech game
on August 30th in
Charlotte.
I still remember
standing on that field
at Lane Stadium, after
East Carolina lost to
the Hokies in that
defensive struggle.
Holtz told his team that
they belonged in
big-time football, but
they had to continue to
prove it week in and
week out.
This year’s team gets a
shot in the very first
week, again against a
Hokies team that is sure
to once again be
nationally ranked, and
once again to be one of
the favorites in the
ACC.
July is the longest
month. August features
the dog days. All roads
this summer lead to
Charlotte and that date
on August 30th with
Virginia Tech.
BB
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