Meet new high school sports beat writer Wendell Shepherd Jr.

As I drove over the I-40 bridge early on Saturday morning, a small gasp escaped me as the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid came into view. My eyes were wide as my new home of Memphis unfolded before me. As a Houston-area kid who'd spent the last four years in the small, but endlessly charming, city of Columbia, Missouri, for college, I couldn't wait to be back in a metro area. Amid the whirlwind that is moving your life from one place to another, my first weekend didn't disappoint. Stops at...