Chris Hobbs

Chris Hobbs, 60, is editor and owner of http://HobbsDailyReport.com, a sports website with a focus of high school coverage in an eight-county area in the Hickory region. He is the dean of prep sports reporters in Western North Carolina — this is his 43rd year — and led prep coverage at The Charlotte Observer for more than 14 years and was a reporter or editor at four other Western N.C. newspapers during his career. Hobbs is semi-retired and lives in Denver, N.C.