All-state time

For as long as I've been at The Times, we've voted on the Louisiana Sports Writers Association all-state football teams in the Superdome on the first day of championship games, Friday. That obviously won't happen this time.

This year, we'll do it in Alexandria, and Sunday is the day.

There are 12 sportswriters around the state with a vote, and it can be a long day. On the other hand, it's always interesting to hear the statistics of players around the state, usually some impressive numbers. When it's over, we'll all cover the state championship games and prepare for the all-state teams to run in the paper. I believe the first team (Class 1A) will run in Tuesday, Dec. 13 newspapers.

At The Times, we've had our preliminary meeting with all the writers who cover high school football for us to discuss our All-Area and All-City teams. That can seem like a tough task until we all get together and discuss the players we've seen. That seems to make everything much clearer. We plan to run those teams in The Times on Christmas Day.

- Brian McCallum