It's probably too early to bestow the National Football League executive of the year honor on anyone.

The unexpected. Isn't that what makes sports great?

My oldest daughter attended her first high school football game of the season Friday night. She promises me she wore a mask. And socially distanced. And stayed away from the crowd, such as it was, as much as possible.

Here's your Friday mailbag for the long weekend ahead.

Before his senior season began, East Hamilton quarterback Haynes Eller worried far more about the possibility of missing playing time due to being exposed to COVID-19 than he did an on-field injury.

With all apologies to Tom Brady, there is only one Tom Terrific and it was George Thomas Seaver.

Dogs, in case you don't know, can tell when you, the human, are happy, sad, lonely, confused, angry or furious.

College football has started and will continue tomorrow night with more games. And the conversation and anticipation will only grow.

Doug Stein calls them "the Pilgrims." They're millennial golfers and golf course architecture buffs.

So, the Braves stood pat and watched as the Padres got better, the Reds got better and, heck, the Phillies got better with deals at the deadline.

When University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's basketball coach Lamont Paris was growing up in the northwest Ohio town of Findlay, all his friends were understandably Ohio State fans. All of them.

And while we're here, the Dodgers set a National League record for the most homers in a month with on more day to go in August.

Welcome to college football in 2020.

The meetings about everything but basketball have come too often this summer for UTC basketball coach Lamont Paris and his Mocs. The latest occurred Monday, the day after Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back by a single policeman in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

I think a big part of the problems of division in our country today are because far too many are set so firmly in one opinion that everything else must be gleaned or bent to support that overriding opinion.

At first the incoming text merely illuminated the screen of her cellphone. But after processing the message, the words she was reading lit up Grace Hammond's entire face.

Not sure I'm surprised by this — we talked some about the conversations of boycotts Wednesday morning in this space — but it's certainly surreal.

'Tis written in the Bible that the truth shall set you free.

"This is really about providing that opportunity for the players," Saban said about the questions about the motivation of trying to play a college season amid the pandemic.

An undefeated season.

I do believe that as a player LeBron's the best I've ever seen. Yes, a better player than Jordan, but not a better winner or the competition that MJ was.

This one is clear High School Football won the weekend friends.

Because we're apparently not already dealing with enough uncertainty in our lives due to the coronavirus pandemic these days, the National Football League added a new worry Sunday.