SHEPHERDSTOWN — David Bradshaw, the former Jefferson High School and Shepherd University golfer, was back in the state last week for his annual run at winning the West Virginia Open golf title. That he was successful was a surprise to no one. In carding a five-under par score for his three ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Triple Crown racing should bring a certain energy to any of its events. Not so much this year. The ingredients for bringing back excitement are right there on the manicured sandy surface of the track at Belmont Park. But something is missing. No thoroughbred won the first ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — With only four minor league waystops available in the Washington Nationals’ diluted system of minor league teams, Jefferson High School graduate Paul Witt is on the early-season roster of the Low-A East Fredericksburg (Virginia) Nationals. Witt, a middle infielder who was a ...
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 ...
