Standing on the Red Bank High School football field Saturday morning, with the 50th anniversary of the Lloyd Ray Smith Area 4 Special Olympics about to begin, Paul Rogers said of his wife Judy, the event's retiring director, "This has pretty much been her life for the last 46 years."
Joseph Francisco was 11 years old the first time he met Joe and Paula Smith and their two children, Andy and Abbey. Three years later he was living with them, one of 19 foster children the Smiths welcomed into their home over a 20-year period.
Other than Golden State beginning this year's NBA playoffs looking as if it was more than ready to defend its title and Houston's James Harden - he of the 44 points in Sunday's series-opening win over Minnesota - looking like the only player who could stop a Warriors repeat, there haven't appeared to be too many sure things one weekend into the league's eight opening-round series.
Rick Barnes hadn't heard the quotes. The Tennessee men's basketball coach didn't need to in order to say something nice about his former one-and-done star at Texas - Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant.
Saturday morning still short of 9:30, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football coach Tom Arth nevertheless was feeling the effects of some serious manual labor on his 36-year-old body.
List the most memorable moments in Alabama football history over the past 50 years - both the good and the bad - and Ruby Falls president Hugh Morrow Jr. has seen almost all of them in person.
If you checked the NBA standings this morning - and doesn't everyone start his or her day that way? - you'll find that LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers can finish no better than third in the Eastern Conference, regardless of the outcome of tonight's regular-season finale against the visiting New York Knickerbockers.
A little more than three weeks ago, with the Atlanta Braves' 2018 season about to begin, first baseman Freddie Freeman said of his team's potential:
Champion is on a quest for wins, not fans
A tradition like no other.
