It all started when...

    This is the door that opened, so to speak, when another one closed.
    The door that closed, in June 2017, was the elimination of the job at the Macon Telegraph after 18 years and 11 months. Many other doors closed soon after, and it’s a skeleton of what it was, sadly.
    Understanding that the door would eventually close led to some thoughts late in the 2016 football season about coverage and coverage areas that were decreasing and decreasing, so here we are, attempting to offer sports coverage in Central Georgia for now, more later.
    Counties covered for high schools, as much as can be covered right now?
    Bibb, Baldwin, Bleckley, Crawford, Dodge, Hancock, Houston, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Laurens, Macon, Monroe, Peach, Pulaski, Putnam, Taylor, Twiggs, Upson, Washington, and Wilkinson.

   Take a look back and see that as much or more coverage has been provided here as anywhere else in Central Georgia, and in almost all areas, more here.

    Some won't get much because they won't offer much. Others who have information online, who answer inquiries, will get more.
    Let's see where it goes. There's a plan for it to go somewhere. This, in Sept. 2017, is the 1.0 version of this website and its plan. The vision is much greater.

   Holla to centralgasports@gmail.com.

- Michael A. Lough

About, well, me:

Born: Feb. 16, that year; York Pa.
Graduated: York Catholic High School 19(18 years later)
Attended: University of South Carolina
Family: Mother June (deceased, 1988), father Leon (deceased, 1987), sister Linda (lives in Pa.), brother Chris (deceased, 2019), relatives in/around Dayton, Ohio; dogs Vander (deceased 2023), Coop (deceased 2021)

Oct. 1984-July 1985: The Monroe News-Star World, Monroe, La - High schools, Northwestern State/state colleges, LSU
July 1985-Dec. 1994: The Daily Town Talk, Alexandria, La.- High chools, Northwestern State/state colleges, LSU
May 1995-Aug. 1998: The Dominion Post, Morgantown, WV - West Virginia football/all sports, columns
Aug. 1998-July 2017: The Macon Telegraph, Macon, Ga. - Columnist, assistant sports editor, high schools, Mercer/state colleges