Always special to attend the different Halls of Fame that many others have helped to make these opportunities possible.

Last night the Atlanta Sports Hall Of Fame inducted another class of accomplished athletes. The stories brought back many memories

Our story on Darrel Huckaby continues: By giving up coaching, it gave Darrell more time to write from his vast reservoir of stories & experiences.

Darrell Huckaby is unique in the lives of the thousands of people who know, read, & have enjoyed his writings! Darrell has been like that in our lives.

Several years ago, one of our great players called me to come to Atlanta & give his committee some help with a project they had been working on. This was one of our players who not only had outstanding success in high school, but had gone on to a very successful playing & coaching career in college.

This is the last of three stories on the life of Betty Jaynes. I never coached Betty Jaynes--I wish I could have enjoyed having her on my basketball team.

This is the 2nd part of the story about Betty Jaynes. As Betty became more "important" throughout the country, she never forgot those people (& things) which were so close to her heart!

We had a little girl, from the small mill town of Porterdale, named Betty Faith. Her athletic talents were recognized by Coach Billy Crowell, and he tried to get her to play basketball, but her mother (a piano teacher), was afraid she might get hurt.

Today we are going to talk about a "character" who assisted me with our football teams over a 12-year period. Jay Milligan always had a trick to show or a joke to tell, and was never at a loss for words to fit any occasion!

Jan & I were volunteers at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, when a young man tapped me on the shoulder and told me that he was the brother of one of our former basketball managers named Travis.

My first interview for a coaching position brought me to Newton County High School in Covington, Ga. I entered Mr. Sharp's office with all the confidence and aplomb with one who is about to graduate from college is endowed.

There is no way to measure the impact that Walker & Cora Harris had on my coaching career! Walker was a very successful Chrysler dealership owner, and also was the mayor of Covington, Ga.

In the spring, Mr. Johnny Smith, the headmaster of Piedmont Academy in Monticello, Ga., called, needing a coach/AD to be responsible for their athletic program.

Each year I always tried to meet the families of any new players. If a player was in our program for four years, we had figured out that he would be under our direction for about 2000 hours.

I have always encouraged our young students to "dream as far as they can see! And, if you reach that dream, get a new dream!" DREAMS FUEL DESIRE!!

Gib was a highly-regarded company executive from Missouri who had been sent to Georgia with the directive, "You have a free hand to do what you have to do to make a success of our large plant there, & if you can't, we'll shut it down!"

Basketball has always been very important to them, as Julian's H.S. Coach (over 70 years ago), asked him to take a young girl basketball player--Johnny Kathryn, to the Jr.-Sr. Prom.

Today's story is about one of our sons, Coach Bill Bradley's players @ Thunder Ridge H.S., whom we watched in the state finals one snowy night in Boulder, Colo.

I had a young student in my first period class named Seaborn Hardeman, who I recognized rather quickly that he was brilliant. When someone would ask a tough question trying to show up a young teacher like me, I would say ,"that is a great question, Seaborn would you answer that question."

One morning I was cleaning the gym floor and I heard sounds coming from our stadium. I looked out the window of the door and saw one of our most popular teachers and she was sobbing away.