Who: Clay Williams, Sports Director-KGBT Action 4 News
What: A blog about Rio Grande Valley sports plus anything else on my fevered mind.
Why: Why not? I’ve got plenty of opinions, and it seems like people on the net can’t get enough of those.
Where: Right here,hopefully once a day at least.
1st off, a little about where I’m coming from. Grew up on a farm in the Panhandle of Oklahoma, just 5 miles north of the Texas border. Played HS & colllege football, but didn’t truly geek out and become a sports nut until going to college in Boston, original home of sports nuts in America.
I got into sports broadcasting just over thirteen years ago, right after the Cowboys dynasty officially ended. Since then, I’ve covered NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, PGA, SMERSH, SPECTRE, UNCLE, KAOS, and all of the rest, but I’ve always found that nothing galvanizes a community like a really big sports story on a really small local level.
That’s especially true here in El Valle, where entire towns fill football stadiums on Friday nights in the fall, caravans consisting of hundreds of cars travel hundreds of miles to support their teams, and.. well you probably know the deal if you’re reading this, don’t you?
Anyway, I’ve been here SIX years now, so I kind of get the RGV, unlike a lot of folks who move here and can’t understand a lick of it. More importantly, I actually LOVE covering local sports, LOVE supporting local teams, LOVE getting out there and meeting coaches, players, parents, fans. I LOVE WHAT I DO. From everything I’ve seen, heard and experienced, that’s the secret right there. Not everybody gets it.
So, here’s the deal: visit this space once a day, and hopefully, along with dime-store philosophy like the above, you’ll get thought-provoking, interesting, sometimes maddening, never boring takes on both local and national sports, stuff both you and I care about.
That’s the plan, anyway.
mahalo
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