Sometimes you need to spend money to make money. In a similar vein, sometimes you need to gain weight to lose weight.

There's plenty going on around the sports world right now.

If life has dealt you a bad hand, here's my advice.

Playing meaningful games late in the season is the goal of all high school football teams.

The way things are going, five years from now who knows how many conferences will be left in collegiate athletics.

It's hard to believe, but the 2011 high school football season is already into the home stretch.

Wow, where does the time go.

It was a week full of fantastic finishes on the local high school football scene.

Because my mother was working, it became a type of twisted tradition.

By PETE CAR

pcar@tnonline.com

There was a time when I was a younger man and lived in Alameda, California.