During my junior year at Central High School, our wonderful A.P. English teacher, Edith Wiles, was reading the A.E. Housman poem To an Athlete Dying Young aloud to the class. Before opening the floor for discussion, she asked a simple question, “does this remind you all of anyone?” Ms. Wiles didn’t say “y’all.” Though my … Continue reading Remembering Bobcat legend Johnny Payne