By Rubin E. Grant Josh Lundy has taken all the changes to Hoover’s first game of the 2020 high school football season in stride. The Bucs were supposed to open the season with a game at the Mercedes-Benz Dome in Atlanta as one of 20-plus teams in the Corky Kell Classic. But because of COVID-19, the Bucs’ game against Lowndes County (Ga.) on Aug. 22 was moved to Mill Creek … [Read more...]

By Rubin E. Grant For the second time in as many years and the third time in his career, Hoover track and field coach Devon Hind has been honored by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Hind was named the association’s boys track and field and cross country national Coach of the Year on July 28. The award was presented by the U.S. Marine … [Read more...]

By Rubin E. GrantMountain Brook football coach Chris Yeager knows it wasn’t an easy decision and he’s thankful that the Alabama High School Athletic Association Central Board of Control approved the AHSAA’s Return to Play ‘Best Practices’ recommended guidelines and reaffirmed plans to start the 2020 football season on time.The action was taken Wednesday at the Central … [Read more...]

By Rubin E. Grant Scott Ware was wondering why he stayed on as an assistant coach for the Hoover boys basketball team for the past eight years when he had opportunities to become a head coach elsewhere. Ware received his answer in late May when he was elevated to head coach of the Bucs, replacing Charles Burkett, who left to take over the program at Athens after 14 seasons … [Read more...]

By Rubin E. Grant It didn’t take long for Chip Vance to see the practicality of the new OS1 Sports Injury Clinic in Hoover. A week after the OS1 clinic opened on June 15 in Hoover, a woman brought in her daughter for treatment. “Her daughter had fallen in practice and bent her wrist and she thought it might be broken,” said Vance, OS1 president and CEO. “She had heard … [Read more...]