Tim Cottrell

Sports Writer/Designer

What a weekend

First off, congratulations to the Opelika baseball team and Smiths Station softball team on big wins yesterday.

Secondly, this has been an exhausting weekend.

Usually a busy day or two is having four or five local stories (about what a front page can hold and still look good at our size), but we had seven in Saturday’s and today’s editions.

When you have high school baseball quarterfinals, softball Area tournaments, softball state tournaments, track championships, a big Auburn baseball series and the AU softball team raising money for cancer research, not to mention the Kentucky Derby, NBA and NHL playoffs, a big NASCAR race and the usual fare of early season MLB games, it’s hard to decide what should go where.

Sports editor Mike Szvetitz and I nearly had a few knockdown-dragouts trying to budget.

But we got it done with minimal problems.

I’ll definitely be back later with some thoughts on whatever happens in Game 7 of the Celtics-Hawks series, and may even be back a few more times as the night goes on.