The Olympics... and beyond

 Yesterday, Monday, Sept. 21, marked a milestone in the Olympic journey, both in the larger sense and in a much more personal sense. Obviously, I've written in this space countless times about my Olympic travels in Russia in 2014, Korea in 2018 and the plans to be in Tokyo next summer when the postponed Olympics take place. But the milestone that passed yesterday was for the Beijing Olympics, coming in 2022. Now, that may seem like a ways away and indeed, yesterday marked 500 days until the start of the next Winter Olympics, which take place in February of 2022. But 500 days, in the grand scheme of things, is not that far away. It's less than two years from now and about six months after the Tokyo 2020 rescheduled Olympics are scheduled to take place. The Beijing 2022 team was all over social media on Monday promoting the 500 days countdown and in China there was a big celebration near the Great Wall, which will likely provide the backdrop for a lot of NBC's extensive Olymp...

As of yesterday, I have been back at work for a month. And things are slowly getting back to normal, or at least as normal as they are going to be for a little while. It started slowly, but it has steadily picked up over the last week and next week promises to be a full-on onslaught of games and contests. The first week back I started making contact with athletic directors around the region, hoping to get their take on how things were shaping up for the fall season. I also wanted to reach out to some of the new athletic directors that I am dealing with this year. For most of my time on the job, I've been covering five schools, Kennett, Kingswood, Prospect Mountain, Newfound and Plymouth. I've had two people working for me who also cover five schools apiece and I would edit their content and get it set for the papers each week. While we were all laid off back in April, at this point, I am the only one who has been brought back, which means that in addition to the five schools I...