Today's Sports

With colder water temperatures dictating inshore fishing, local anglers’ focus has fallen primarily on red drum and speckled trout.

Of the two, redfish are already making a terrific showing while specks are popping up in their usual hit-or-miss style. Meanwhile, black drum are also being caught in many different locations and will probably be available no matter how cold the water gets.

The elegantly set tables, with the empty chairs waiting to be filled, the food ready to be served, remain in my memory whenever Thanksgiving nears.

One of my earliest memories is of a trip our family made to visit Mom’s relatives “on the farm,” as we called it. The trip was about 90 minutes, but to the four of us with little wiggle room in the back seat of the car, it might as well have been 90 hours. To pass the time, we engaged in the spur-of-the-moment sport of elbow jabbing. (Another brother, the baby of the family, slept up front on Mom’s lap.)

JACKSONVILLE—It was the coldest night of the year, and the North Brunswick football season ended on it, too.

Give credit to the Monarchs of Northside High School, who had everything to do with stopping North Brunswick 27-0 Friday night in the second round of the NCHSAA Class 2-A playoffs.

The unbeaten Monarchs entered the game averaging almost 40 points a game, but the game started with both teams going back and forth throughout the first quarter.

The historic Brunswick Community College volleyball season ended Friday in the second round of the NJCAA Division II national tournament at Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wis.

Central Community College (Nebraska) beat the Dolphins 25-12, 25-13 and 25-15. The Dolphins, seeded No. 16, lost their first-round match Nov. 20 to top-ranked Kishwaukee College 25-15, 25-10, 25-6. Kishwaukee entered the tournament 53-3.