SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Grass is still wearing its dull winter coloring. Where the sun shines with a warming smile in a place like Kissimmee, Fla., Tempe, Ariz. or Sarasota, Fla. The aromatic smells of sizzling hot dogs, freshly popped corn and bratwurst are still just memories from the 2019 ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- The azaleas of pink, orange, crimson and off-white are gone since April. The towering pines and downhill lies in the fairways are still dominate. And the 94 players invited to this year's remodeled Masters Tournament in Georgia are going to be seen adjusting their thinking, ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- When Robert "Bobby" Chuey II was a virtual coach on the floor, while playing guard for his father's Hayfield High basketball team in Northern Virginia his sternest opponents were usually Mt. Vernon High, Robinson High and T.C. Williams High. The elder Chuey (Robert H. Chuey ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- In Kentucky, all is right with the world. From Paducah to Middlesboro and from Covington to Harlan County, the state's populace is properly agog because the near-earthquake events that moved the Kentucky Derby on the calendar from the first Saturday in May to the first ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- From Howard High School, in Maryland, to Shepherd College to the National Football League.That's the straight-line route running back Wayne Wilson took just before he spent nine seasons in the NFL.The rangy 6-foot-2 athlete was successfully recruited to Shepherd by then-coach ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Reconfigured as it is, this year's Kentucky Derby remains thoroughbred racing's most anticipated and most glamorous event.Instead of being run through the pink or white blossoms of springtime dogwood trees on the first Saturday in May, it will come on Sept. 5, the first ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Roscoe the Rooster won't be strutting his stuff in Princeton.The Birdfeeder concession stand in Bluefield won't be dispensing nachos, corn dogs or hot dogs slathered in mustard and relish.Monongalia County Ballpark in Morgantown will be quiet and without any Black Bear ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Young children would scramble out of bed and grab a fresh roll or peeled peach on the way out through the flimsy green screen door.Budding teens would have an apple in their hands, a five-fingered infielder's glove and a wide smile as they tore off the porch.Those in their ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- There isn't a ski slope in downtown Bakerton. Maybe there should be. Jefferson High School and Shepherd University graduate David Bradshaw was back in the state earlier this week to participate in the 87th West Virginia Open golf tournament, an event he had won 11 times, ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- On Saturday at Belmont Park, there will be no surge of fans leaving public transit cars to hustle their way toward this year's first leg of thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown series. No hype or promotion noting the Belmont as being the "Test of a Champion" or the track being ...
