I hope you and your family enjoyed watching the Big Game over the weekend. This year’s face-off featured the Los Angeles Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, California. Most local folks I talked to became Bengal fans for the game, especially with the hometown ...
The New Martinsville Rotary Basketball Challenge is in the books for another year. After a year’s absence due to the Coronavirus this year’s event went off without a hitch despite a smaller field and the loss of a couple girls games on Friday night due to school closings. A lot of work goes ...
I was recently asked to speak at a community tribute for Coach Dave Cisar in New Martinsville on January 16th at the Lincoln Theater. The event was sponsored by the city of New Martinsville and the Wetzel County Museum, and it highlighted and honored the five decades of teaching and coaching ...
It was a class act all the way on Sunday, January 16, in New Martinsville. Not long ago Magnolia’s long time baseball and football coach Dave Cisar announced his retirement, creating a feeling of disbelief among many of his ex-players and fellow coaches. Following Coach Cisar’s decision, ...
This year’s NFL season has some extra motivation for me. Maybe you know our Sistersville Mayor, Bill Rice, is a huge Green Bay Packers fan. Just look at his truck. We made a bet at the beginning of the NFL season on whose team would make it the farthest in the playoffs, the Pittsburgh ...
We can look back through the annuals of time and find many ex-athletes who have left their mark on their schools and communities. With most of them we remember what they did on the ball fields and courts, and they are often thought of and brought up in our conversations when discussing ...
Longtime principal at TCHS, Kent Yoho, is stepping down from the position early in the new year. His last official day is still an unknown, but plans are in place for his departure. His wife, Linda Burgess Yoho, hinted he has some vacation time scheduled in February. Kent’s leaving will ...
I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, at Lutheran Hospital. Lived on the West Side in a row house along 25th Street, not far from downtown or Municipal Stadium (AKA) Lakefront Stadium. My Dad and Grandfather both worked at the Foundry and in the steel mills. As a young boy in the summer time I would ...
Some of West Virginia’s greatest athletes and coaches have come from right here in Wetzel and Tyler Counties. I was telling someone the other day about some good athletes that came from the Shortline area and we mentioned the 1969 boys basketball team from Pine Grove. It was a good team with ...
It is exciting to inherit something that is awesome and then accept the challenge of maintaining the status, but there is something extra sweet about building a contender from the bottom up. When any athletic program, regardless of what sport it is, hires a new coach you immediately hear the ...