Of the countless Division I athletes Blair County has produced over the years, Tim Lambour’s experience was perhaps the most unique when it came to racial relations. Lambour was a basketball standout at Bishop Guilfoyle, helping lead the 1970 Marauders to the Pennsylvania Catholic ...
You Tube Another season of high school football previews with Michael Boytim and Scott Franco of the Mirror is now on the Mirror Channel on You Tube. Check it out today. The day thousands of athletes across the area have been waiting for all summer has finally arrived, and while the circumstances certainly aren’t perfect, it’s important for everyone involved to appreciate what we do have. We have high school football. Soon, we’ll have scholastic soccer, cross country and girls volleyball. Our paper has already been running high school golf and girls tennis roundups for the past ...
This is supposed to be the most special time of the year. The calendar flips to September, summer vacation is in the rear-view mirror, the kids are back in school, the cooler fall air begins to replace the August heat. And you pack the car, hopefully with the Mirror Gameday in tow for a relaxing tailgate, and you resume your tradition of attending or watching Penn State football. Of course, we know that isn’t the case today as the last six months have painfully taught us what’s not going to be in 2020. But what was going to be? In the early days of spring preparation, ...
Credit the PIAA for last week’s overwhelming decision – by 25-5 vote — to go against Gov. Wolf’s recommendation to keep high school sports on the sidelines until Jan. 1. The PIAA obviously values the high school sports experience and all that goes with it — the hard work, the pursuit of dreams, the scholarship opportunities, the achievements and, yes, coping with disappointment — more than Wolf, and after gathering sentiment from its thousands of constituents, it sided with the vast majority. I am not here to debate the dangers of the coronavirus. We see it every day ...
Up until this weekend, the biggest news out of NFL training camps was that there hadn’t been any big news. No wave of star players testing positive for COVID-19. No mass outbreaks of the virus discovered despite tens of thousands of tests. That changed — if only for a few hours — with a flurry of positive tests that forced NFL teams into scramble mode. It seemed, if only briefly, that even the best laid plans to get an NFL season underway were going to be sunk by a virus that refuses to be tamed. That could still happen. There are those who think it’s likely that eventually ...
One of the most frustrating things in life can be inconsistency. People don’t like being told they can’t do something when they can see someone else just as qualified getting that same opportunity. So, imagine the frustration of a high school golfer or girls tennis player if the PIAA had decided to tell them they couldn’t participate in their sport this fall after they have been doing it all summer in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, apparently safely. Thankfully, Dr. Robert Lombardi and his board went ahead with sports Friday afternoon at the PIAA’s board meeting by ...
