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Mostly individual titles are still up for grabs in final day of OVAC Ron Mauck

WHEELING — There won’t be much drama Saturday night as far as the team races go at the 72nd annual OVAC Ron Mauck as three of the four titles have already been clinched, with the exception being the smallest – 1A/2A. Defending overall and Class 5A champion University flexed its muscles ...

COLUMN: Sometimes, it’s just time

Sometimes in life, it’s simply time for something different. Tuesday morning was such a time for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Mike Tomlin. After 19 years, it was time for the veteran coach to do something else. And, regardless of which party initiated it, it was just time for the ...

Big Red leads wire-to-wire in win over Warren

STEUBENVILLE — The Big Red girls’ basketball team keeps rolling along. Big Red scored first and led by as many as 20 points in the fourth quarter as Big Red led wire to wire en route to a 51-36 victory against Warren Friday night at the Crimson Center. “We played through contact,” ...

Crusaders lead Class 1A-3A field after Day 1 of OVAC swim meet

WELLSBURG — The Ohio Valley Athletic Conference took the plunge on Friday evening inside Brooke High School for the first day of the 2025-26 OVAC Swimming Championships, with several student-athletes earning gold, and with many more medals yet to come. The meet will conclude on Saturday ...

WVU, Colorado to meet in clash of teams that badly need a victory

MORGANTOWN — It is a crossroads of sorts that will intersect inside the Hope Coliseum at 7 p.m. tonight, when Colorado travels to West Virginia. Both programs are sort of caught in that what-happens-next type of spot, almost mirroring each other as two teams looking to build respectability ...