Rick Head

2 weeks ago | theblacksheartimes.com | Rick Head

While doing some research for a column, I came across an item called “Auto Mechanics Share The Funnie s t Things They See On The Job.”Auto mechanics have the task of servicing their local community’s vehicles. Whether they’re maintaining or repairing, it’s necessary to keep the neighbors moving. However, not everyone who owns a vehicle has been taught how to maintain them between visits. Some of these projects will make you scratch your head with the backwoods ingenuity.

3 weeks ago | theblacksheartimes.com | Rick Head

Scanning the worldwide internet, I came across headline called Bizarre Things - Odd Stuff - Crazy Headlines. It was the crazy headlines part that caught my attention. In the journalism field, editors at every level of our profession, from major daily papers to the small weeklies, will write crazy headlines — especially on deadline. It’s not until it comes off the press that mistakes are realized.

1 month ago | theblacksheartimes.com | Rick Head

Unless programs are winning games or matches and advancing through the playoffs, coaches catch the brunt when teams struggle. An injury or two to main players are sometimes crucial to a teams’ success. Sometimes its just the luck of how the ball bounces. The coaching profession is a thankless job compounded by those who routinely bash a coach or coaches. Coaches give their time and effort when they could be home with their families. It’s something they want to do.

1 month ago | theblacksheartimes.com | Rick Head

Has your pillow flattened out and now you’re dreaming its talking to you. It might have gone like this. Pillow: “We’ve had a good run this decade and a half. Me, a sweat-stained, yellowing bed pillow. You, a 62-year-old man. And now, after years of supporting you literally and figuratively, there’s only one thing left to do. “Please kill me. “It’s time. I just can’t deal with another night of being repeatedly flipped, folded and fluffed, in a futile attempt to be made comfortable.

Feb 11, 2025 | theblacksheartimes.com | Rick Head

I’ve bit my lip for a while now, but my sanity is about to leave if I don’t talk about the poor state of college athletics under the direction of the NCAA. The current path and direction of coll ege sports has left a bitter taste in my mouth. I once lived and breathed college football and college basketball. “Friday Night Lights” in the fall wet my appetite, which was fed every Saturday in front of the “big screen” TV watching games from across the United States — coast-tocoast.