City Council hears request to fund sports hall of fame
The Fayetteville City Council on Monday night was asked to financially support a proposed E.E. Smith High School Alumni Sports Hall of Fame that initially would be online. LaVar Wright made the …
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.