Across the forty year relationship with Diamond 💎 sports, there have been many a journalist who I have crossed paths with and Allen ” Homer ” Worrell has a very unique skill set.
Allen started out as a Sportswriter before having to transition over to the more serious Real World side of the newspaper 📰 business. Going from being the Sports Editor to the being the Editor was not necessarily a career goal but for those of us who are newspaper ” Lifers ” understand that our industry is shrinking by the hour and one has to make adjustments in order to stay involved.
Those who are new to the story should know that Allen and Craig Worrell are not related in a kinfolf kind of way but they both spent decades providing coverage for Carroll County High School. The biggest difference between the two was Craig was splitting his time between three High Schools in CCHS, Galax and Grayson County, while Allen gets to be the truest form of a Homer.
As I close in on 50 years in the Newspaper business, I bleed ink and will until the day it all ends. With that said, I can never recall a time where a community was so blessed to have not one but two dedicated people providing a High level of coverage at the same time.
Allen was at Liberty University as was his ready to deliver a baby 👶 any day now wife, Crystal. It’s was a hot 🔥 and muggy kind of a June day, so I’m sure that Crystal was trying to survive the day in addition to celebrating the moment.
As is the case with Craig, there will be space for everything that Allen has to offer in regards to the book 📖. The Softball signed by the team sits proudly on display in the office down on Main Street so there is little doubt that the State Championship means a great deal to Homer.
While a number of people that covered High School sports were using it at a stepping stone to College or Profesional sports, others took the time to enjoy being the voice of a Community.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Homer fits into that second category and means so much to him that he’s willing to swim 🏊♂️ in the other end of the pool. Coverage of politics and crime isn’t a fun thing to do but in this day and age, if you want to stay in the business, it involves multi tasking.
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