It's not often, if ever, at a burial that you hear a duck call, but it was certainly fitting Friday as legendary outdoorsman Grits Gresham was laid to rest in Natchitoches.
Somebody made the remark that Friday's blustery weather was appropriate for a service honoring a man whose love for hunting and fishing was not surpassed. Son Kent, a member of the NSU Athletic Association board of directors, responded with an impromptu duck call. It was, as you would expect, pretty good!
As he would have wanted, Grits' funeral and burial was more a celebration of his life, and of his life's partner, his late wife Mary, than a teary occasion.
You probably don't know that Grits donated a hefty sum of money he won in the Crosby Pro-Am Golf Tournament to the NSU Athletic Association back in the early '90s. He didn't worry about recognition for doing good things. He just did them.
Doug Ireland, SID
Friday, February 22, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
More ESPN.com coverage of Demon basketball
Check out Dana O'Neil's feature story today on ESPN.com and enjoy her story on the many sets of brothers playing college hoops together this season. She spotlights five sets -- and the McConathy boys, and their family history, fills one of the spotlights in her story.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Good guy finds a new home
Former Demon assistant football coach Kurt Corbin, who resigned last November, has been hired as the linebacker coach at Tennessee-Chattanooga, giving Demon fans a rooting interest in the Southern Conference race.
Kurt and his charming wife Ashley, who was a great asset to NSU in her role in the admissions office and with student affairs, are relocating to the Lookout Mountain city. Hopefully they could host friends from Northwestern for next year's national championship game!
Doug Ireland, SID
Kurt and his charming wife Ashley, who was a great asset to NSU in her role in the admissions office and with student affairs, are relocating to the Lookout Mountain city. Hopefully they could host friends from Northwestern for next year's national championship game!
Doug Ireland, SID
Around the track
Haley Blount is an assistant track and field coach at Northwestern who holds the Lady Demon record in the pole vault, so she spends a lot of time around our track.
Her dad, Terry, spends a lot of time around the track, too.
The race track -- as in, for example, the oval at Daytona Beach.
Haley's dad, Terry Blount, a longtime sportswriter in Texas, is one of the lead motorsports reporters for ESPN. Here's a link to his column today on yesterday's Daytona 500:
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/daytona2008/columns/story?columnist=blount_terry&id=3250437
Her dad, Terry, spends a lot of time around the track, too.
The race track -- as in, for example, the oval at Daytona Beach.
Haley's dad, Terry Blount, a longtime sportswriter in Texas, is one of the lead motorsports reporters for ESPN. Here's a link to his column today on yesterday's Daytona 500:
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/daytona2008/columns/story?columnist=blount_terry&id=3250437
Sunday, February 17, 2008
2001 Demons come back
Nice to see some of the members of the 2001 NSU Demons basketball team that was our first to reach the NCAA Tournament reunite at Saturday's home game vs. Stephen F. Austin.
It's nothing unusual to see Josh Hancock in the stands, as he often makes the drive to watch baby brother Keithan Hancock and teammates play. Josh is coaching high school basketball as an assistant at his alma mater, Kountze HS, near Beaumont, and Kountze is, as usual, heading into the Texas playoffs.
Chris Thompson is coaching high school basketball in Bossier City and had his two cute kids with him Saturday. Looking sharp in a white warmup suit was Pooh Davis, also in his hometown of Shreveport, doing some postgraduate work to move into the legal community.
Winning the long distance award was Jerrold McRae, who flew in from Nashville. Jerrold stays in touch with Coach Mike. He is working in the healthcare industry, based in his hometown.
Doug Ireland, SID
It's nothing unusual to see Josh Hancock in the stands, as he often makes the drive to watch baby brother Keithan Hancock and teammates play. Josh is coaching high school basketball as an assistant at his alma mater, Kountze HS, near Beaumont, and Kountze is, as usual, heading into the Texas playoffs.
Chris Thompson is coaching high school basketball in Bossier City and had his two cute kids with him Saturday. Looking sharp in a white warmup suit was Pooh Davis, also in his hometown of Shreveport, doing some postgraduate work to move into the legal community.
Winning the long distance award was Jerrold McRae, who flew in from Nashville. Jerrold stays in touch with Coach Mike. He is working in the healthcare industry, based in his hometown.
Doug Ireland, SID
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