COLUMN: Celebrating all that’s great about Murfreesboro

General 10/8/2023 6:38:00 PM Sam Doughton, MTSU Athletic Communications MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — There were a multitude of reasons why I took this job as Staff Writer with the Middle Tennessee Athletic Department in the Summer of 2021.

I wanted to tell stories again after some time away from writing brought on by the pandemic. And I wanted to continue to tell stories in sports, as I had done throughout my college years. And MTSU, from what I read and what I heard, seemed like an institution that would offer no shortage of interesting stories to write, while also taking care of me.

But what's kept me around the Blue Raiders, more than the championships I've covered or the remarkable…