Many great athletes and scholars have walked the halls of Magnolia High School in New Martinsville, WV., and went on to excel in athletics and academics. Enter Ted Talkington, (2004 Graduate), a standout basketball player for Coach Dave Tallman’s Blue Eagles who led the team to a Class AA ...
No playing the snooze game. We all have done it a time or two. It’s the one where you hit the snooze button on your old fashioned alarm clock to get just ten more minutes of coveted sleep. Younger generations won’t get this. Heck, they don’t own alarm clocks, but they can play something ...
I don’t care if you cheer for the Mountaineers or consider yourself a Thundering Herd fan. There isn’t a person alive today that doesn’t get a lump in their throat recalling the catastrophic event that claimed the lives of 75 souls on November 14, 1970. That’s the night a chartered ...
It’s been a bumpy start to my journalism career. Just as I was getting my sports reporter feet wet the pandemic hit, and the stories and games especially on the high school level I thought I would be covering evaporated. I along with all sports writers across the county have had to dig ...
Tim Swords grew up in New Martinsville, one of seven siblings, of the late James Dennis and Evelyne Swords. Tim was a 1974 graduate of Magnolia High School where he excelled in football and track. He was recruited by several Division I schools but chose East Carolina University and lettered all ...
Fans across the country are starving for sports to get back to normal. While the Super Bowl is the next big event on the market, it’s still not the same. Pro football like every other sporting event is gaged by the amount of people they can draw. Televised games give the audience some relief, ...
From the 50’s to the present, Paden City High School has had some of the best Class-A basketball teams in the state of West Virginia. From those teams the Wildcats produced several players who went on to make their mark at the next level. The jump from one of the smallest schools in the state ...
When two or more ex-athletes gather, Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days” permeates the meeting. Such was the case when I hooked up with Rick Berger and Tom Shepherd for a socially distanced pandemic meeting. I mentioned to Rick that Dr. Neill Marshall had mentioned his role in a goal line ...
The news last month about Vanderbilt’s Sarah Fuller becoming the first woman to play NCAA Division I football for a Power Five Conference got some of us thinking about girls who had played on boys’ teams closer to home. We thought of a few in Wetzel and Tyler County and would love to hear ...
The one thing that has made sports in general this past year hard for everyone is the lack of spectators. Although some sports have been able to carve out a season, most have not. The roar of the crowd is gone, but the game tries to play on. The excitement that is generated in all games is ...
