Upon Further Review

Oh, I’m sure there will be bumps in the road as the Daily Pooch Punt Home Office tries something new. (But let’s be honest with each other, isn’t that always the case when “computers” and “the internets” are involved?)

Don’t care what Southern Valley school you go to or which school’s colors you wear.

When it comes to being a fan of high school football you got to love how Dae’Quan Scott plays the game over at R.E. Lee. Touted as one of the most talented football players to take the gridiron in 2008, Scott did little to dispel that hype in his team’s opener on Friday—scampering his way into the end zone four times against Fort Defiance and keying a 40-18 victory over an overmatched Indians squad that never backed down.

OK, I really don’t. But for reasons known only to the slack-jawed sports columnist gods, I felt the need to make a movie pun that would have bee funny, oh, I don’t know, back in 1997. But I digress.

But it doesn’t seem to be working, evident by this e-mail from former Wilson Memorial girls basketball coach Tim Byars regarding the Augusta County Schools knocking around the idea of cutting JV sports.

He asked me to post his comment. If you have any comments you would like posted until everything is fixed, just send me an e-mail and I’ll post them here.

If there’s one thing the youth in Augusta County know, it’s how to be the red flag in a tug-of-war.

On one side are the good elements pulling with all their might, doing everything they can to keep kids on the proverbial “straight-and-narrow path.“

On the other side are the bad elements. Gangs.  Drugs. Crime. The whole nine yards, folks. The bad things. The things you don’t want your kids having anything to do with.

There are plenty of good things on the good side. Throw your beliefs out the window and take your pick. There’s religion, there’s school, there’s the library, there’s volunteer work and, of course, there’s sports (and countless others we’re pretty sure we’re forgetting at this moment).