WHEELING – Entering the 80th annual OVAC Rudy Mumley All Star Football Game Saturday night at Wheeling Island Stadium, on paper West Virginia appears to be an underdog once again. However, that’s a role that Mountaineer head coach Chris Daugherty, of Wheeling Park relishes. “I talked a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The most expansive season in NHL history will begin in September, not October, and limit most teams to four preseason games. The league's first 84-game season since 1993-94 opens Sept. 29 as 32 teams will combine to play a total of 1,344 games. The season runs through Saturday, April 10, before the playoffs begin the following week. The increase from an 82-game slate, which had been the standard since the mid-'90s, was agreed upon by team owners and players in the last round of talks on a collective bargaining agreement. The intent is to provide more space between ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Guardians and Pittsburgh Pirates will play a doubleheader on Saturday after the opening game of the weekend series between the teams was postponed on Friday night because of poor air quality caused by wildfires. The teams and umpire crew met at 4:30 p.m. EDT, when the air quality index was at 203, which is deemed to be very unhealthy and hazardous. The first game of Saturday's split doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 1:10 p.m. EDT. The second game is scheduled to start at 7:10 p.m. EDT, but rain is forecast for most of the evening. Pittsburgh's ...
WHEELING – After a week of two-a-day practices, the Ohio team – coaches and players alike – are ready to take the field Saturday when they meet West Virginia in the 80th annual OVAC Rudy Mumley All Star Football Game. Kickoff inside Wheeling Island Stadium is set for 7:15 p.m. “Like I told the parents at the “Evening With the Stars,” everything goes so fast. It was like a blink of an eye. Everything goes fast when you’re having fun,” Ohio head coach Brett McLean, of Clairsville, said Friday. “We’ve got a great group of kids. The coaches did a fantastic job of ...
Major League Soccer is back after its six-week break for the World Cup. A few things have changed since the league went on hiatus, most notably the arrival of a pair of high-profile international stars and a new campaign that hopes to capitalize on the World Cup to entice new soccer fans to ...
MOUNT PLEASANT — Working to ensure the history of their small community is preserved is important to members of the Historical Society of Mount Pleasant. That's why the organization continues to host its annual Pilgrimage, which includes tours of many structures, some of which were built ...
