Hello readers, my name is William Collins. Most people around the world know me as, “Will tha Thrill.” I am currently writing for The Voice as a Sports Editor.

   I seem to have caught some readers off guard as to what I was writing about in last week's issue. I want to apologize to one in particular: Michael Munn, Advance Monticellonian Sports Editor and Assistant Coach of Cotton Softball.

   I am not sure what he is thinking that I am trying to gain personally. I already have a degree from an accredited university, I am currently employed and I enjoy working with UAM if it will help others. I am not one who strives to be alone at the top, but more to help others to the top.

   Anyone who has ever watched the Cotton Blossoms can tell you that Kent Early played a major part in the Blossoms success over the past years. Kent, the son of Head Coach Alvy Early, did accept an offer to coach at Bentonville High School. With his absence sources have revealed that things are far different.

   I on the other hand, to Munn, may not have been important to the team. I was a fast learner and did many other things that proved to be helpful in the team's success. I, along with Munn, served as student assistant coach with the softball team for two years prior to this year. I don’t know how he rates my knowledge by us having the same amount of experience.

   I speak for myself when I say 14 years of umpiring fast-pitch and slow-pitch softball gave me more than a little knowledge of the sport. And a wannabe coach is something I hardly believe I am with the five years coaching experience at the college level in basketball, the two years in softball and the one year in golf.

   With that being said I only did what I was asked and what I knew. As far as having no real function with the team, I had no idea that the role I played during the season had no effect on the team whatsoever.

   Name calling is a bit immature when you can say a college graduate (UAM B.S. Health and Wellness 2004) is “only the team’s official court fool.”

  As to the rumors and stories, they have finally been verified by good reliable sources.

   Lindsay Rymes, a pitcher for Cotton Softball, was missing from the roster. I did not know weather she had quit or had been dismissed.

   I spoke with Rymes after returning from Hawaii and she told me she pitched OK in Hawaii, but did not pitch much. I then looked at the stats and noticed she only pitched 0.2 innings.

   I then began to ponder why she was not at a practice that I attended to take pictures for The Voice. I asked a source if Rymes was connected to the mentioned off-field distractions that were endured, and she was not included.

   I have now received from another separate source that she was not dismissed by anyone other than herself in order to fulfill her chance to graduate with a double major in chemistry and math.

   I hope this finds Mr. Munn in a now calm state, if not I ask that he contacts me via electronic mail, telephone or written letter rather than going through others with problems the he may have concerning stories that I created.
 

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