Column: Jim Semple Sr. Believed in Kids and All They Could Be, and The Kids Believed in ‘Sarge’
Walk a mile in the late Jim Semple’s shoes and you would know how much he came to treasure his years as youth director in the 1960s at the Fayetteville YMCA on old Fort Bragg Road.
Fayetteville Sports Club announces 2025 Hall of Fame class
This year’s induction ceremony will be held on April 17th at 6 p.m. at the Tony Rand Student Center on the campus of Fayetteville Technical Community College.
Fayetteville Sports Club Hall of Fame announces its class of 2024 inductees
Three former football standouts and a pair of local basketball legends head the class of 2024 inductees for the Fayetteville Sports Club Hall of Fame. The site and date of this …
Column: A father and son playing catch, and a championship in the making
Call it something of a father-and-son rite of passage. A father and his boy throwing a baseball to one another. “He was always ready to field some balls” after work, Jack McGinley says about his father, John McGinley, who worked as a foreman in a paint factory in Blackwood, New Jersey, a little town about…
Sports club inducts 11 new members into Hall of Fame
Former Cumberland County athletes and coaches along with a parks and recreation legend who for more than three decades provided youth with courts and fields to hone their athletic dreams were among 11 enshrined Wednesday night into the Fayetteville Sports Club Hall of Fame.
