Thirteen years is a lot of time. Whether it’s spent in a job, living in a city or in a relationship, 13 years makes up a significant portion of someone’s life. For an 18-year-old “lifer” like me, 13 years represents all of my remembered life so far. That means forContinue Reading
Pace Academy basketball legend and 5-star recruit Wendell Carter Jr. has been tabbed by Warner Bros. to star in a remake of the 1996 classic Loony Toons and Michael Jordan mashup “Space Jam.” Wendell was ecstatic about the opportunity. “When they (Warner Bros.) asked me to be the new faceContinue Reading
As if one state championship wasn’t enough, the Pace Academy boys basketball team marched down to Macon to defeat an overmatched Manchester team 65-43 on March 4 to win the school’s second state title this school year. Backed by a raucous fan support that has followed them all year long, PaceContinue Reading
In a recent opinion poll, Pace students and faculty were asked, “Who is Pace’s biggest rival?” The poll asked students to consider academic, athletic and artistic standards when voting. The Lovett School won in a landslide, obtaining 68% of the votes, due to recent rivalries in both football and basketball. OtherContinue Reading
After Friday night’s blowout win over the top-ranked team in the state in AA, Thomasville, Pace Academy had less than 24 hours to get ready for an equally talented opponent in the #2 Crawford County Eagles. Despite the short turnaround and the raucous Eagle fans that enveloped the Centennial Center inContinue Reading
With last year’s GHSA Elite Eight upset at the hands of Vidalia still fresh in the minds of the Pace Academy Knights, Pace pulled an upset of their own Friday night, demolishing a #1-ranked Thomasville team at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. Despite coming in as theContinue Reading
KN: So y’all have known each other for a long time. When did you start dating? Kayla Ross: We started dating in October. KN: What do Julia and Alex (Ross) think about this? Sammy Lettes: They probably don’t love it. KR: I think they’re pretty supportive. KN: Has it made yourContinue Reading
The Road Warriors finally returned home, and the Pace Academy Knights (13-2, 5-2 region) delivered the first-ever state title of the football program’s short history in front of a raucous crowd at the state’s most prestigious stadium, beating Fitzgerald (13-2, 5-1 region) 42-21 in the Georgia Dome on Dec. 12. Pace was theContinue Reading
The game started off eerily similar to the last one against Greater Atlanta Christian. Pace Academy (12-2, 5-2 Region) used a couple of long touchdown drives and a few key turnovers to take a slim lead into halftime, just as they did the first time they played GAC (12-2, 7-0 Region) inContinue Reading
The situation turned out similarly to last year: Pace Academy (11-2, 5-2 region) traveled south of Atlanta over Thanksgiving break to face a talented opponent in the Elite Eight. This time, the Knights took control of the game from the first kickoff and held off a late Macon County (10-3, 5-0Continue Reading
Any casual fan could see the way the game was going to go in warm-ups. Darlington, jumpy and nervous, looked like they might not be ready for the playoff stage. The visiting Knights, however, looked calm and collected, trusting their talent to take down the Tigers. As soon as theContinue Reading
Despite playing on a Thursday night in a massive, almost empty behemoth of a stadium against a team that almost knocked them out of a playoff spot last year, Pace varsity football (8-2, 5-2 region) took down the B.E.S.T. Academy Eagles (2-8, 1-6 region) last Thursday night in their last regularContinue Reading
The spy, the martini, the car and the girl. Unlike ‘Skyfall’ (2012), the last installment in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series that went far outside the mold of a traditional Bond movie, the Sam Mendes-directed ‘Spectre’ followed all of the familiar twists and turns that Bond fans know and love. TheContinue Reading