There has been plenty of change going into the 2021 high school football season with teams switching conferences and dropping their programs to join co-ops, but there’s reason to think that it could just be the tip of the iceberg. District 6 chairman Bill Marshall said he expected “a lot ...
There’s something special about the start of the high school football season, be it the fall chill in the air, the beginning of another academic year or the fact that everybody’s undefeated. It’s all especially magnified in a small town, where Friday nights become a stadium gathering of anticipation, spirit and a place to celebrate community. Sadly in Williamsburg, after 95 years of football, that’s no longer. The Blue Pirates learned last week that their program would be merging with neighboring Juniata Valley. Board president and community leader Barry England became ...
If you needed even more evidence that the college football world as many of us have known it for the last 50 years is changing, it arrived this week with word that Texas and Oklahoma will be joining the already-loaded SEC. Rest assured it won’t be the last seismic move to rattle the sport. First off, the transition is effective July 1, 2025. Having the two highest profile teams in the Big 12 swimming in lame-duck territory for four seasons in all sports just can’t happen so expect an accelerated timetable. Already you’re hearing inevitable speculation that the SEC may not ...
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to witness many local best-ball tournaments, both as a participant and a spectator. Each event has been interesting in its own way, but I must say that I have never witnessed a more thrilling ending to a tournament than the finish at this year’s Park Hills Classic. And it’s not even close. For perspective, the first team in last weekend’s championship flight finale was the top-seeded, defending champion team of Anthony DeGol and William Smith, who progressed to Sunday’s final match with three methodical victories. Every local ...
Immediately following the conclusion of any hunting season it is the lot of the outdoor writer to hear all manner of gripes and opinions on outdoor subjects. We can get pretty firm about what we view as the “unsporting practices” of other hunters. As if enduring the harangues of anti-hunters is not enough, it is surprising how we snipe at fellow sportsmen for using methods or equipment foreign to our own way of thinking. Every time something new is introduced some group gets vocal about how “unsporting” it is. Remember the flap about using crossbows? The same rhetoric was ...
TOKYO — The aquatics arena near Tokyo Bay is an impressive structure indeed, the shimmering blue water of its two pools surrounded on three sides by towering rows of seats that, in a normal Olympic year, would’ve been packed with some 15,000 boisterous fans. Of course, there is nothing normal about these Summer Games, which means the Tokyo Aquatics Centre is destined to be viewed a symbol of poor planning, gluttonous spending and terribly unfortunate timing. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, these are the made-for-TV Olympics. No fans allowed. Hardly any of those 15,000 seats ...
