Talking with the media prior to the Baron Cub Dinner on Aug. 5, Mike Eruzione said not only do people of older generations still embrace the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, but he gets letters from young kids who have heard the story of how they beat the Russians or saw the Disney movie and are ...
Corey Dennis is a quarterbacks coach who has been forced to be defensive at times. As the son-in-law of Urban Meyer, he has heard some people suggest his rapid advancement to quarterbacks coach at Ohio State was facilitated by doors that swung wide open because of the Meyer name. Family ties are not unheard of in Big Ten football. Brian Ferentz, son of Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, is the Hawkeyes’ offensive coordinator. Jay Harbaugh, Michigan’s running backs coach, has been hired by two people since he got out of college — his dad, Jim Harbaugh, and his uncle, John ...
I have lived in the Ohio Valley my entire life. I’m not sure that I’ve ever been prouder to say that than after this past weekend. Sure, this area isn’t the richest, and we have our fair share of problems, but when our fellow Valley natives are hurting, you can bet we’re going to come together. Friday night upon getting rosters at the game I was covering, I found out that Oak Glen senior Zach Taylor was wearing a different jersey number. The reason, to honor Roane County’s Alex Miller, who died the previous week. I was even more impressed by the gesture after the game ...
There are few things I have experienced that compare to rounding the final turn of the Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon and seeing the finish line after grueling 13-plus mile trek through Wheeling. They announce your name as you get near the finish, music is playing and in that brief moment, ...
Hockey fans rejoice! After the long, grueling grind of an 82-game season, the most wonderful time of the year is upon us. The Stanley Cup Playoffs. Hockey, maybe more so than any other sport, is one where anything really can happen. A team that gets hot at the right time to sneak in the playoffs can upend a higher-seeded team, and maybe, just maybe, go all the way to hoisting the 35-pound trophy high over their heads come June. Case in point, the 2012 Los Angeles Kings, who won the Cup as a No. 8 seed under the old format. This season was an incredible one to follow, since it ...
When one thinks of local high school sports, it is quite likely that swimming is not the first athletic competition to come to mind. Maybe it should garner more attention. Last Wednesday night at the Big Red Natatorium, local teams competed during senior night. The balcony bleachers were ...
