Since retiring from professional baseball, Biggio has spent his evenings over on the campus at Memorial and Shepard. First, after retiring, he was a walk on football coach. You heard it first on Channel 11. He was coaching the defensive backs and I can guarantee those players on that side of the ball have never been challenged quite like dealing with him. I called him shortly after he started and in his own way told me he had to have a meeting with them to help them understand the commitment they needed to make to be good. I can only imagine it was a one sided conversation with those kids trembling in their cleats with how he likes it to be.

I invited Craig to my golf tournament and he told me he could play until about 2 because he had a big game and he couldn't miss it. He was not officially on the staff at the high school but he wanted to show the players how much he cared.

Now he's the new head baseball coach at St. Thomas. I can promise you those youngsters will have their uniforms dirty after every practice and certainly after every game. They will get a dose of "how I used to do it" and they should. If they can just put forth a tenth of the effort on their level as Biggio did on his, look out for St. Thomas on the diamond in the future. All indications are that he will have the Eagles soaring in short order.