Periodically, I'll post links of some of the freelance work I've done. Feel free to look around. If a link is broken and the story sounds like something you'd like to read, let me know and I'll get you a copy of it.

Enjoy.

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Change For The Better (May 27) -- Travis Buis wins Toast of the Coast Boys Soccer POY honors.

Despite Struggles, Pelicans Sticking Together (May 27) -- The Birds aren't very good this year, but that doesn't mean they haven't had some heartfelt moments.

McElveen Mindful Of His Golf Game (May 26) -- Drew McElvenn wins Toast of the Coast Boys Golf honors.

Player Excelled Under Pressure (May 25) -- Taylor Player wins Toast of the Coast Girls Soccer honors.

Harts Thinking Best Is Ahead (May 24) -- Priscilla Harts wins Toast of the Coast Girls Athlete honors.

Padding Pivotal For Planning High School Football (May 23) -- Area football coaches are jacked to have seven days of full-padded spring practice.

Murrells Inlet Club Changes Its Format To Get Laughs (May 21) -- Stand Up Carolina goes from run-of-the-mill bar to a comedy club with huge potential.

Home No Cure For Pelicans' Ills (April 20) -- Myrtle Beach "wastes" another strong performance from a starter.

St. James Sprinters Shine In Sun (April 18) -- The Horry County Track and Field Championships were won by Carolina Forest; St. James' sprinters, though, brought fans to their feet.

Invasion! | Undead Impersonators Take To Streets (April 16) -- The Grand Strand Humane Society gets a helping hand from some early Spring freaks.

St. James Rallies To Beat Myrtle Beach In Baseball Matchup (April 16) -- The top-ranked high school team in Class AAA beats Myrtle Beach in dramatic fashion.

Hoover Sharp, But Myrtle Beach Pelicans Dealt First Loss (April 12) -- A early theme for the Pelicans during the first part of the season: Starting pitchers not getting much help.

Rodriguez Sparks Myrtle Beach Pelicans to 3-0 Start (April 11) -- The first of what's going to be plenty of minor league baseball coverage this year.

Brown's Smarts Help Him Earn Toast Of The Coast Hoops Honor (March 28) -- Carvers Bay basketball player Angelo Brown almost never got the chance to be a basketball stud. Now, after getting his grades up, the Bears guard is named The Sun News' POY.

Myrtle Beach Tattoo Parlors Ready For Economy To Improve (March 21) -- After months of decreased business, area ink shops hope Spring Breakers will float their businesses for another business cycle.

Cover Bands | Acts Get Paid Big By Paying Homage To The Great Artists That Came Before Them (March 19) -- Between Elvis impersonators, a Sublime cover band and longest-running band in Myrtle Beach, and cover acts are proving they don't necessarily have to rely on originality to make the big bucks.

Fleet, Coastal Carolina Blank Michigan On Diamond (March 15) -- After coming up the ranks as a starter, CCU pitcher Austin Fleet is developing into a decent reliever. But against Michigan, coach Gary Gilmore put Fleet back into a starter's role.

Brown, Cole Find Home With Myrtle Beach Girls Basketball (March 5) -- Two Myrtle Beach High basketball players adjust after transferring from local schools.

Keen To Quiz | Testing Knowledge Pays Off For Bars, Competitors (Feb. 26) -- Team Trivia hasn't just arrived in Myrtle Beach. In many ways, it's taken over.

This Year, It's Real For Socastee High School Lacrosse (Feb. 24) -- With the SCHSL sanctioning lacrosse this year for the first time, one local team was more than ready to join others from across the state.

CCU Squad Channels The Rugby Spirit (Feb. 18) -- Coastal Carolina's club rugby squad got suspended and won a national title. Players would like to forget about one and repeat the other.

Super Bowl Superstitions | Locals Take Various Approaches To Big Game (Feb. 5) --  A handful of local Saints and Colts fans got ready for Super Bowl Sunday in their own ways.

Open Mike Night | Performers Losing Venues To Test Work (Jan. 15) -- The open mike scene in Myrtle Beach is shrinking, and it's leaving the freestyle art struggling to keep it going.

West Tops East In Offense-Defense All-American Bowl (Jan. 3) -- Game coverage of one of the several national high school all-star football games.

Top Recruits Face Unyielding Process (Dec. 31) -- Recruiting can be fun; or it can be hell. It just depends on who you ask.

Commitment: Players Signing Early Risk Possibility Of Coach Leaving School (Dec. 30) -- A hard look at the National Letter of Intent and how it could be hurting high school basketball's top players.

Sister Bands, Two Distinct Sounds (Nov. 20) -- My Q&A with Badfish/Scotty Don't lead singer Pat Downes.

Golson Utilizes Wide Array Of Competent Targets (Nov. 20) -- Myrtle Beach High coach Mickey Wilson has one of the best problems any high school coach (especially in this area) can have; he's got six bonafide receivers and the best offense on the beach.

Trojans Smash Tigers (Nov. 14) -- West Brunswick made quick work of Chapel Hill in the opening round of the North Carolina playoffs. (I doubled up with the Chapel Hill News, and here's the story from the Tigers' angle.)

Carvers Bay In Familiar Place (Nov. 13) -- The Bears have a healthy backfield and are looking to advance to a fourth consecutive Class A Lower State title game.

Grand Strand Stars Light Up Dance Floor (Nov. 13) -- Local movers and shakers prep for an area fundraiser in the style of the popular ABC TV reality show.

AFI Promotes Its Eighth Album (Nov. 13) -- The punk band is en route to House of Blues in North Myrtle.

Warriors' Playoff Hopes Hinge On Physical O-Line (Nov. 6) -- Waccamaw's football team has a couple of future college players on its offensive line, and if the team is goinig to do much in the playoffs, it will be up to them.

Slow Start Stymies Short-Handed Stallions (Oct. 24) -- Four South Columbus players quit the team, yet the Stallions keep it close against the best team in the region.

Southern Conference Basketball Roundup (Oct. 23) -- If you're a fan of 11,000-word roundups on Southern Conference basketball, here's your initial dose this season. This specific roundup, which will begin weekly sometime in December, takes a look at the Southern Conference offseason, what to expect early on and how teams will fare. If you'd prefer to read about only certain teams, CBSSports.com splits up the sections within each team's page. Here's an example of that.

A New Breed Of Lions In Loris (Oct. 23) -- The Loris football team has found success this year after a couple of rough seasons.

Piggly Wiggly To Add Beer Growlers (Oct. 23) -- A grocery store with an already stacked beer and wine section gives beer lovers another venue for getting some high-quality beer.

Panthers Struggle With Chiefs' Strategy But Pull Away (Oct. 17) -- North Myrtle Beach took a somewhat successful approach into its game with the second-best team in the region, and it nearly worked.

Keepers Of The Coast (Oct. 15) -- In this Weekly Surge cover story, I took a look at a local activist group -- the Surfrider Foundation -- and how it was doing it's part to clean up the beach.

Option Attack Has Braves Thinking Playoffs (Oct. 15) -- Socastee's football team runs one of the best option offenses on the Grand Strand, and it's an offense that is about to put the Braves into position for one of their best postseasons this decade.

Gibbs' Five TDs Lifts Warriors (Oct. 3) -- Waccamaw's John Gibbs and his teammates run all over Hanahan just one week after he reeled off a school-record six touchdowns.

Art, Blues Meet At Weekend Fest At House Of Blues (Oct. 2) -- A quick preview of a charitable weekend of art and music at the HOB.

Bellamy Gives NMB Backfield 1-2 Punch (Oct. 1) -- North Myrtle Beach tailback Timmane Bellamy, after taking a year off from football, decided to come back and play his senior season. The decision is paying off for him and the Chiefs.

Panthers Bend, Don't Break In Narrow Win over Braves (Sept. 28) -- Carolina Forest's defense allows a ton of yards but few points in winning their second game of the year.

Rivalries Bring Extra Incentive For Area Teams (Sept. 25) -- Two small towns in the area are split between two football teams, leaving something a little special waiting for that night's football games.

Coastal Carolina University Brings Music Greats Together (Sept. 25) -- Three musical studs will play together for the first time.

Braves Rumble To Big Win (Sept. 19) -- Socastee High gets back on track with its running game two weeks after one of the top Braves' running backs quits the team.

Myrtle Beach Offers Myriad Choices For Beer Lovers (Sept. 18) -- In one of the toughest assignments I've ever had to tackle, I take a look at the premium beer market in Myrtle Beach.

Coastal Carolina Combats Music Piracy (Sept. 12) -- CCU, like most universities across the country, is looking for ways to keep its students from using school servers to download illegal music.

Tigers Impressive Enough (Sept. 12) -- Conway gets another nice showing from its freshman quarterback, putting a licking on Socastee.

Blanchard Brings New Attitude To Andrews (Sept. 11) -- First-year football coach Steve Blanchard is doing his best to turn around one of the area's most hard-luck teams.

Andrews Suffering Sickening Week At Football Practice (Sept. 10) -- In what is an expected problem this fall, Andrews' football team becomes one of the first in the area to deal with flu-like symptoms from its players. Approximately half of the players missed out on practice that week.

Carolina Forest-Timberland Football (Aug. 23) -- Is it football season already? For me, at least, it started with a bang when I had a drop-dead 10:30 p.m. deadline for a game that started at 7:30. The game ended at 10:10. I finished up the story and stats, ran to the field, got a couple quick quotes from the Carolina Forest coach (who had just been drubbed for nearly three hours), ran back to the press box and filed by 10:22. I did have to call my editor and relay some rushing stats for the box, thanks to Timberland having 124 different guys run the ball.

Guy Daniels Memorial Surf-Off (Aug. 14) -- A look at the foundation of the Surf-Off, which celebrated its 10th anniversary that weekend. Daniels died at the age of 19 in 1999 after suffering an unexplainable heart attack while jogging.

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Most of the links for the following stories have been broken, but I leave them up for Googling purposes. Feel free to check them out, and again, if you'd like help locating them, give me a shout.

Waccamaw's chance (May 21) -- For the second night in a row, a girls team from Waccamaw is eliminated from state title contention when the Warriors drop the championship deciding game to Crescent. (NOTED: I doubled up on the assignment, covering the Crescent angle for another of my old shops, the Anderson Independent-Mail.)

Waccamaw falls (May 20) -- The girls soccer team at Waccamaw high school fails to unseat the perennial Lower State champions during the South Carolina Class AA playoffs. (NOTED: The same story also ran in the Charleston Post and Courier as part of a trade-off between the papers.)

"We're like brothers" (May 11) -- Two boys soccer players at Socastee High School have thrived together and have parlayed their successes into NCAA Division-I scholarships.

Conway cruises (May 7) -- Gamer on Conway's baseball team after it crushes No. 1 seed Beaufort in the district championship game.

Waccamaw domination (May 6) -- Waccamaw's tennis excellence appeared bound to continue. (NOTED: The team steamrolled to another state title.)

Difference maker (April 30) -- A look at one of the most dominant softball pitchers in the state.

Seahawk Invitational (April 25) -- A local golf team cues up for a state tournament appearance. (NOTED: St. James finished second in the state in the tournament.)

Alducin's big day
(April 21) -- A reserve soccer goalie gets to be the star of a game
after the regular starter is held out. (NOTED: I had 7 minutes to write
this one due to deadline constraints.)

Freeman's foray (April 19) -- Myrtle Beach Pelicans first baseman Freddie Freeman will be playing for the Atlanta Braves someday, as long as he can navigate the Carolina League.