SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Will you learn about the lake effect snow in Erie? Or the intense football atmosphere at Indiana, Slippery Rock and California?Are the Golden Rams going to outpace the Rams? Will Shepherd ever add cross country, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field, golf, ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN - Brenton Doyle, a much-decorated junior outfielder at Shepherd, didn't have to wait very long to hear his name called on the second day of the Major League Baseball draft of amateurs.In the fourth round, Doyle became the first NCAA Division II player in the country selected. He ...
MORGANTOWN -- The party's over!What began so well with WVU's tournament-opening win was squashed by Duke and then a early-game rain delay of nearly two hours that submerged the Mountaineers' chances against Texas A&M.And WVU had two losses. The season was over. Duke bested the Aggies ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Belmont Park in Elmont, New York on Long Island. Home of the one-and-a-half-mile Belmont Stakes. Home of the third leg of thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown series for three-year-olds.No Triple Crown this year. Diminished public interest now that no thoroughbred won both the ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- If it's professional baseball you want to see this summer, the two closest cities that have minor league teams are Frederick and Hagerstown.The Frederick Keys are in the Class A Carolina League and are supplied with young players by the Baltimore Orioles.Harry Grove Stadium, a ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Please, no more torrents of rain at the Preakness Stakes. Not another sloppy track. Not another Triple Crown race marred by the weather, the condition of the track and bumping and jostling of the prized thoroughbreds.Just once, a clean race. On a clear day. Without a ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN - This year's Kentucky Derby field is ripe with legitimate contenders.But none of them has the noble look of being another Secretariat, Justify or American Pharoah - all Triple Crown champions.Omaha Beach is photogenic with the white diamond adorning his forehead and his white ...
SHENANDOAH JUNCTION - After seeing its batters locked down in consecutive losses by the pitching of both Martinsburg and Hedgesville, Jefferson found its way back to the win column in a mercy-rule success against Washington.The Cougars managed just four hits in a 5-2 loss at Martinsburg, and ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN - It was a mid-week college baseball game where both WVU and Pitt would use pitchers not expected to be starters on call for weekend games within their respective conferences.It was also Dollar Night in Morgantown where the price of admission was only $1, along with the hot dogs, ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN - Kelso, or as his legion of fans called him, "Kelly," raced for eight seasons.Many talent thoroughbreds of today don't even race one full season, two at the most.He was gelded, because his behavior would never earn him a gold star. After being gelded, it seemed that he might run ...
