By Lee Davis For Hoover fans, the Bucs’ 7-6 loss to Spain Park in the Class 7A football playoffs Nov. 20 came down to a good news/bad news scenario. The bad news is that Hoover will not be the 2015 Big-School Class football champion for the fourth consecutive year. The good news is that the streak had to end sometime, and the Bucs are far from finished. Admittedly, it wasn’t … [Read more...]
Friday Night Re-lights: Bucs Win Sets Up Rematch with Jags, Pats Lose Thriller
By Lee Davis Any time Hoover and Vestavia Hills meet in football, the odds are that something special is going to happen. Certainly that was true Oct. 16, when the underdog Rebels shocked the Bucs 20-13 in what had to have ranked as one of long-time Vestavia coach Buddy Anderson’s sweetest victories. As fate would have it, the pair met again Friday night in the second round … [Read more...]
Whiz Kid: Spain Park Student Presents Program at National Conference
By Kaitlin Candelaria Spain Park High School student Ozair Patel recently had the opportunity to make a presentation at the Wolfram Technology Conference in Illinois. The 17-year-old engineering academy student presented “A Big Data Analytics Platform for STEM Education Using the Wolfram Engine on Raspberry Pi” on Oct. 22. The Wolfram Conference is presented by Wolfram … [Read more...]
Playoff Fever: Intriguing Match-ups May Come Later
By Lee Davis It seems like we’ve been waiting forever, but the Alabama high school football playoffs finally begin this weekend. Last week’s season finales were important, but they had the feel of NFL exhibition games in that they meant nothing in the region standings. Now we are back to business, and the first round – as always – is intriguing and fraught with danger for … [Read more...]
Best Efforts: Spain Park Center Aims for Title
By Lee Davis It’s not fair, but even the best offensive centers in football labor in anonymity compared to quarterbacks, running backs and receivers. Spain Park senior center Grey Best got a much-deserved moment of fame during the Jaguars’ epic 17-0 upset of arch-rival Hoover on Oct. 1. With the game scoreless in the final minutes of the first half, Spain Park had marched to … [Read more...]