Judging a sports team or a coach can be a tricky thing. Like with anything in life, you pick the criteria you prefer and then make judgments based on that. Using one set of criteria, the good news is that a team or coach can look fantastic. Using other criteria, the bad news is that ...
Friday’s announcement by several school districts that spring sports will not take place until at least April was just another in a string of postponements across the world of athletics. The shock of a few baseball, tennis, softball and track and field events being postponed or canceled seems minimal to most when you consider every major sporting event is off — including The Masters, which was announced Friday. But for some star seniors across the area, the news was worrisome. It’s starting to sink in that they may have played their final high school game before the season even ...
Let’s try to catch our breath here. I mean, the world as we know it — particularly in sports — has been thrown into upheaval over the past 48 hours, as we’ve been hit with one knockout punch after another with cancelations because of the coronavirus pandemic. This thing has changed ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — Be honest: No matter how much you’ve enjoyed this Penn State season, no matter how excited you’ve been for the great possibilities, there’s always been that nagging voice in the back of your mind saying, “They’re gonna blow it.” That is incredibly unfair to the players and coaches on this year’s team, who already have accomplished a great deal and will be going to the NCAA Tournament in two weeks. It’s also just the way it is. Call it the Penn State basketball condition, molded over many, many years of disappointing results that prevent people from ...
There’s a chance that both Penn State and Saint Francis will be playing in the NCAA Tournament in two weeks. I honestly cannot believe I just wrote those words. The Nittany Lions have been to a grand total of five NCAA Tournaments since 1965. Saint Francis has been to only one, in ...
Jarrod Klausman has spent his life in sports, often alongside his dad, Jim. They were part of a championship team in Little League, including the prestigious Dean Patterson Little World Series, and later coached in the Hollidaysburg basketball program under Mick Pentoney and Brad Lear. ...
