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Frank Colalella Charitable Foundation awards scholarships

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STEUBENVILLE — The Frank Colalella Charitable Foundation awarded five $1,000 scholarships to area seniors at their awards banquet.  This year’s recipients were Catholic Central’s Matthew Sprochi, Madonna’s Rylee Birkhimer, the Jefferson County JVS’ Leigh Anne Anderson, Brooke’s Rocco Sacripanti and Big Red’s Emily Tuttle. The foundation was formed to honor the legacy of Colabella by friends and teammates. This is the third year that the foundation has awarded scholarships to area seniors.  The foundation has one fundraiser a year,a golf tournament in the ...

Big 12 coaches unanimously agree on their preference for a 24-team playoff

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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Big 12 coaches unanimously agreed Thursday on their preference for a 24-team College Football Playoff, a scenario in which the conference would have had five playoff teams last season instead of only league champion Texas Tech like it did in the current 12-team playoff format. When the 16 coaches were informally polled about doubling the size of the playoff field during one of their sessions at the Big 12 spring meetings, all of them raised their hands. "They should ask coaches for more opinions on what's best for college football," West Virginia coach Rich ...

Big Red's Blackburn headed to Davis and Elkins

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Big Red senior Nolan Blackburn recently signed his letter of intent to continue his academic and baseball careers at Davis and Elkins College. Blackburn, a four-year starter for the Big Red baseball team and multi-sport standout, plans to major in special education. Joining Nolan, front, ...

Geno Smith knows he can write a 'superhero movie' story in his return to the Jets

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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Geno Smith knows what a lot of New York Jets fans are daydreaming about. The quarterback has been here before, a much younger and less-experienced version, of course. The Jets had only missed the playoffs the previous two years when Smith was selected by the franchise in the second round of the 2013 NFL draft. He has come and gone elsewhere — four other stops, actually — and that postseason drought has since reached 15 years, the longest among teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball. Smith is now 35 years old and back where he began his ...