Friday Night Lights in a city known for a different kind of lights
August 23, 2009
I have always had a soft spot in my heart for high school football.
Back in Kansas, I covered the Osage City Indians for my high school newspaper, The Pow Wow. Yes, it’s still called that, and no, it doesn’t have a proper Web site.
I helped put myself through college at Emporia State University while writing football gamers for the newspaper I had wanted to work at since I was in the third grade — The Topeka Capital-Journal.
And once I got into “new media,” that love of high school sports continued. Sometimes the high school sports coverage …