Shortly after Tom Brady’s retirement, well second (and maybe final?) retirement this past week, I saw a graphic being shared on Facebook with a list of the QBs who have retired in the last few years. On it were of course Brady, Peyton Manning, Big Ben, Drew Brees, Eli Manning and Philip ...

I will never forget the first time I covered a signing day. Admittedly I was a little befuddled seeing a schedule starting me off bright and early, rather than letting me be the night owl I grew to accept. Working in the sports department at a newspaper will do that to you. But now, I remember ...

You ever go to a stadium or gym and wonder why it has its name?   I cannot even make a guess as to how many different facilities I have been to a game at in the last five-plus years of covering local sports, from down state West Virginia to a few hours out into the Ohio countryside, and ...

Saturday night, after his Mathews team opened its season with a win over Catholic Central, Bill Bohren said something to me that got me thinking — “Steubenville is the best football town in America.” While I’m sure a lot of places, elsewhere in Ohio and in other football hotbeds like ...

Dwayne Haskins’ tragic death on Saturday morning is a reminder that we take too much for granted. Some of the initial reactions to it are also a reminder that we need to keep the athletes we admire human, too. I woke up on Saturday to text messages asking if I had seen the news. My first ...

When it comes time for the high school football playoffs, that typically means sports writers are going to be travelling, sometimes a few hours away, for our local teams. I learned that in a hurry my first year as a sports writer at the Herald-Star/Daily Times in 2017 when I was tasked with ...