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 ...
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, ...
