CARTER HALL OF FAME - Key Persons
A regional sportswriter for 25-plus years, Combs currently serves in the role of sports editor for the Elizabethton Star.
Starting as a correspondent for the Star in June of 1988, Combs advanced to the rank of staff writer and then assistant sports editor before handling the sports editor's job for a six-year run (2000-2006). Following a seven-month break from the newspaper business, Combs was hired by the Johnson City Press to work as a sportswriter - a position he held for just over 4 1/2 years.
He returned to the Elizabethton Star as the assistant sports editor in May of 2011, and was repromoted to the head of the department in August. A Carter County sports historian, Combs is a 1988 graduate of Elizabethton High.