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 ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN - The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference is Shepherd's next stop. Beginning in September of 2019, the Rams will be a football-playing member of the East Division of the state-wide league that annually fields some of the better teams in the NCAA Division II ranks.Already ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- With longer days and high school basketball moving closer to "tournament time," some seasons and games from the past haven't lost their gilt-edged places in the state's library of memories.The school with the most basketball state championships is Woodrow Wilson of Beckley. No ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Shepherd has been blessed with modern-day Hall of Fame basketball players from Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, but it has only one such all-time great from Arapahoe, North Carolina.The tiny town in coastal North Carolina near New Bern sent Larry Boomer to Shepherdstown ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Coffee-colored thoroughbred Game On Dude, now residing in splendid retirement in Georgetown, Kentucky at the Old Friends facility operated by Michael Blowen, is still making friends and influencing people. Even though he's been away from racing since the fall of 2014, Game On ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Unbeaten again and with wins against Michigan State, Marquette, Tennessee, Stanford and Villanova, it's Kansas that has made the most waves as the Big 12 prepares to begin its regular season. The Jayhawks have won so many conference regular season titles it would seem they ...
