The first question I got from several smart-alecks when Catawba College football coach David Bennett accepted the head job at Coastal Carolina University?
Is the Post going to have a Coastal Carolina notebook?
Hey, why not?
The first note involves a couple of true freshmen, reportedly transferring from Catawba to the school in Conway, S.C.
Supposedly, linebacker Maurice Simpkins and offensive lineman Antwon Trice are heading south.
Don’t expect mass defections, however. If a Catawba player has already redshirted and goes to Coastal, he’ll lose a year of eligibility.
West football star Ben Hampton will be making an official visit to Coastal Carolina this weekend.
It was a very short stay in Kannapolis for Razor Shines.
Last year’s Kannapolis Intimidators manager was introduced by the Winston-Salem Warthogs Jan. 14 as their new skipper.
Shines made his debut for the Warthogs during the eighth annual Hot Stove League meeting at the Joel Coliseum.
Shines, a Durham native, got off to a great start in 2001 but his team faltered in the second half when most of his pitching was promoted to Winston-Salem. The Intimidators finished their first season in Kannapolis as a Chicago White Sox affiliate 76-63.
The Intimidator brass has yet to announce its fourth manager in four years.
The new manager will follow Shines, Greg Legg and Ken Oberkfell.
Making note of Michael Jordan’s impending divorce, Jay Leno quipped: “Apparently now, for the last six, seven years, Michael Jordan has had like a half-dozen girlfriends while he’s married, and I’m thinking to myself, `Well, forget the NBA, this guy’s presidential material.’ ”
The best new sports show on TV: ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption.
Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra, when recently asked how he liked school, replied, “Closed.”
Kendall High of West Rowan has been named to this summer’s East-West All-Star Football Game in Greensboro.
There’s another assistant coach in Rowan County.
West Rowan football coach Scott Young and wife Diane are the parents of Catherine Allyson, born Jan. 4. She weighed in at 7 pounds, 11 ounces.
And finally ...
NBC’s Bob Costas, who visited Salisbury last April for the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters banquet, had this to say on coverage of the Salt Lake Winter Olympics:
“We want to show that Utah is more than Karl Malone, beautiful mountains and some guy with five wives and 26 kids.”
Contact Ronnie Gallagher at 704-797-4287 or rgallagher@salisburypost.com
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