Biography
Bryan Brasher joined The Commercial Appeal sports staff in July 2005. After growing up in Leeds, Ala., just east of Birmingham, Brasher worked five years with The Birmingham News and eight years with The Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer. While in Columbus, he started the paper's first outdoors page from scratch and claimed 22 journalism awards for outdoors coverage, college sports coverage, professional sports coverage, environmental coverage, column writing and outdoors photography. In his first full year with The CA, he was honored by the Tennessee Sports Writers Association as the state's top outdoors writer. Bryan lives in Hardeman County with his wife, Kim, and his two step-daughters, Taylor and Macy.
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Arlington wins first state baseball championship
Updated 05/26/2012 at 12:07 a.m.
Some high school athletic programs across the country have played for decades without winning a state championship in the three major “revenue sports” of football, basketball or baseball.
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Harding falls in state baseball championship game to USJ
Published 05/24/2012 at 8:09 p.m.
After fighting a valiant week-long battle to keep their season alive, time finally ran out for the Harding Academy Lions on Thursday afternoon.
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Baseball: BGA beats MUS 5-3 to win state championship
Published 05/24/2012 at 3:03 p.m.
Owls fall 5-3 to Battle Ground Academy.
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Baseball: Harding forces another game with USJ
Published 05/24/2012 at 12:39 p.m.
Harding's eight-run fifth carries Lions to 12-2 win over USJ.
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Arlington battles to verge of finals
Published 05/24/2012 at midnight
After battling injuries and various misfortunes all season long, things seem to be coming together at just the right time for the Arlington High School baseball team.
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Baseball: Harding rallies its way into state title game
Published 05/23/2012 at 9:23 p.m.
Harding Academy proved itself more than worthy of a spot in the Division 2-A state championship baseball game Wednesday with a pair of gutsy victories in the face of elimination.
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Arlington remains unbeaten at state after holding off Farragut
Published 05/23/2012 at 5:48 p.m.
After battling injuries and various misfortunes all season long, things seem to be coming together at just the right time for the Arlington High School baseball team.
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Baseball: Harding stays alive behind Nathan Stanford's pitching
Published 05/23/2012 at 12:54 p.m.
Harding Academy pitcher Nathan Stanford dominated the batters from Tipton-Rosemark Academy for six innings Wednesday morning and then survived a nerve-racking seventh to lead the Lions to a 2-0 victory in the elimination round of the Division 2-A state baseball ...
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Two big innings cost CBHS dearly
Published 05/23/2012 at midnight
Arlington, behind ace pitcher Brady Bramlett, opened with a victory in the Class AAA state tournament, but it was a tough first day for the area's other baseball hopefuls.
- So, what's going on outdoors for May 20? Published 05/20/2012 at midnight
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