SHEPHERDSTOWN — Kutztown University is going to be chasing another playoff berth. And then there’s the yearly shouts from the followers of Slippery Rock football. What will Shepherd send out to possibly beat either of those two teams? In place are an experienced “Big Four” group of ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — High school athletics and college athletics have their obvious differences. The skill levels aren’t the same. Neither are the pressures to perform well and do the required work in the classroom. Usually, the skill sets of the coaches are also different. But coaches seeking ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — It’s an annual gathering that’s more than a ritual, more than a remembrance of past times where smiles were the currency of the week. Homecoming, during a football weekend, comes with much anticipation and nearly as much preparation. A football game brings together the ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — The WVSSAC has augmented a first-seen four class system for the upcoming 2024-2025 school. The schools with the largest enrollments, as well as several other conditions, will now be placed in the Class AAAA. All six of the public schools in Jefferson County and Berkeley ...
MORGANTOWN — Penn State followers have probably shunted their team’s last trip to Morgantown during a football season to some dusty recess that can’t be reached except by those using secret codes or a drone. The last time the Nittany Lions came calling was in 1988, when Major Harris was ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Slippery Rock’s Brayden Long and Kutztown’s Judd Novak are PSAC quarterbacks with impressive credentials from the 2023 season that will earn them considerable preseason recognition. Both will probably receive 2024 Harlon Hill Trophy looks even before playing a game this ...
MORGANTOWN — Neal Brown seems to be a football coach graced with a subdued composure, useful recruiting acumen and knowledge of the ever-complicated NIL portion of nowadays college sports. He has somehow negotiated the “transfer portal” and given a responsible account in keeping his best ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — The professional baseball career of WVU infielder JJ Wetherholt can begin after he signed a contract that contained a $6.8 million dollar bonus. It was the St. Louis Cardinals who selected Wetherholt in the first round of the just-completed draft of amateur players. The Mars, ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Security. at every venue. The possible pollution of the Seine River where long-distance swimming will take place. The United States sending a delegation of 592 athletes. Russia mostly on the sidelines, because of doping incidents at previous Olympic Games. And then all of the ...
MORGANTOWN — Infielder JJ Wetherholt became the highest-ever draftee by Major League Baseball, when the St. Louis Cardinals selected him seventh overall in the first round of the 2024 draft on Sunday. Wetherholt just completed his junior year of eligibility at West Virginia University, ...
