I was almost shocked when I realized I was running out of days left in the month on my desktop planner. I know, I’m old school. Trust me, my kids (both adults, and how do you know when to stop calling them kids?) tell me all the time.
SPORTS
Let’s talk about hunting on public land. This is one of those hunting related topics, like the .30/06 is the best caliber for deer, and turkeys are all gobbled out and done when spring season comes in, that can make the discussion lively at the barber shop. So you know I enjoy it. Read more
HICO - There is a storm brewing in Hico. Listen and you will hear the thunder and watch and you will see the lightning Read more
MORGANTOWN — The rain fell in torrents. The winds blew and lightning flashed across the sky while thunder rumbled across Morgantown. Read more
The Johnstown Mill Rats racked up 18 hits on the way to a 14-7 win over the West Virginia Miners on Thursday evening at Sargent’s Stadium at the Point. It was the fifth straight win for Johnstown, who now has a 15-8 record in the second half of the season. Read more
The New York Knicks ended up with guard Quentin Grimes with the No. 25 pick in the NBA draft after dealing two picks that were higher. Read more
Those who know Kaden Smallwood know the Greater Beckley rising senior loves to be in the gym. Read more
JOHNSTOWN — Tanner Froehlich had been waiting all game to break into the hit column for Johnstown, and his final opportunity came at the most clutch point of the Mill Rats’ matchup with the West Virginia Miners on Wednesday night. Read more
CLEAR FORK –There won’t be a need for Oceana police officer and new Westside coach Tyler Dunigon to launch an investigation into his offense this season. Read more
John H. Lilly is an old school coach, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the Independence football coach maintains a constant old-school mindset. Read more
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Stephen Strasburg will have season-ending neck surgery, Nationals manager Dave Martinez said Tuesday, ending another frustrating year for Washington's 2019 World Series hero. Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Trevor Bauer’s administrative leave was extended by 10 days through Aug. 6 on Tuesday by Major League Baseball and the players’ association while the sport’s investigators check into allegations of sexual misconduct against the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher. Read more
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University Athletic Director Shane Lyons made his first public statement on the state of the Big 12 after Texas and Oklahoma informed the conference they would not retain their media rights beyond 2025 via a press release Monday. Read more
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia single-game football tickets are going on sale at 9 a.m. Tuesday, the school said. Read more
MORGANTOWN — Two years ago Jalen Bridges, a highly sought-after recruit out of Fairmont Senior High, was headed toward a year of prep school before entering West Virginia University, where he had committed to play for Coach Bob Huggins. Read more
NEW RICHMOND – The road to a repeat is generally never easy, but even the most stringent pundit would have been hard pressed to not look at the Wyoming East Lady Warriors as a preseason favorite to repeat as Class AA state champions. Read more
NORMAN, Okla. — Norman business and community leaders on Monday said they're excited about the possibility of the University of Oklahoma joining the Southeastern Conference. Read more
NORMAN, Okla. — It's official. Oklahoma and Texas want to leave the Big 12. Read more
Roger Hodge, a Hinton native who has over 200 career wins as a head coach at the NCAA level, has been named the new head women’s basketball coach at WVU Tech. Read more
WESTFIELD – The Indianapolis Colts will open training camp this week without head coach Frank Reich. Read more
Being from Elk River, West Virginia, I have always felt that elk and I were somehow connected. As strange as that may seem, perhaps growing up on the river and a town named after the animal may have caused my curiosity. I often wondered why so many places in our home state had the word “elk”… Read more
I’m a hillbilly. Have been since birth and, believe it or not, I’m proud of it. Hillbilly, like most things that deal with the Appalachian Mountains, is a term that is usually misunderstood. Scholars tend to disagree a little as to the actual source of the word, but it is usually rooted in t… Read more
Facing a pivotal week in the middle of a postseason run, Johnstown manager Parker Lynn went to a bullpen approach to Saturday's game against West Virginia. Read more
Ryley Preece drove in five runs and three Chillicothe Paints pitchers combined to strike out 14 batters in the West Virginia Miners’ 10-1 loss Friday night at Linda K. Epling Stadium. Read more
Raleigh Collins III had heard about the exploits of former Neumann-Goretti football standout Leddie Brown long before he met the current West Virginia running back. Read more
CLEVELAND (AP) — While riding his bike over a bridge across the Cuyahoga River near Progressive Field, Indians owner Paul Dolan rarely paid much attention to the eight giant stone figures that seem to guard the city. Read more
chillicothe, ohio — Chillicothe pulled away with a six-run fourth inning, then scored four in the eighth to invoke the mercy rule in a 14-4 win over the West Virginia Miners Thursday at VA Memorial Stadium. Read more
richwood — The fourth annual Richwood 7-on-7/Lineman Challenge is back with eight teams set to compete today beginning at 11 a.m. at Dean Memorial Field and the adjacent practice field. Read more
Josh Watson remembers heading down the wrong road, when he was given the stop sign by one of his old baseball coaches. Read more
MORGANTOWN — All of a sudden there's a haze in the air and it has nothing to do with the forest fires that are burning across the West Coast. Read more
Oklahoma and Texas could be on the move to the SEC, according to a report from the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday. Read more
TOKYO (AP) — The simple act of taking a knee felt like something more monumental when it happened on Olympic soccer pitches in Japan on the opening night of action. Read more
springfield, ohio — Brandon Galindo went 4-for-5 with three runs batted in and the West Virginia Miners defeated the Champion City Kings 8-5 Tuesday to snap a five-game losing streak. Read more
Kerri-Anne Cook of Oceana defeated Savannah Hawkins in a sudden death playoff to win the West Virginia Girls Junior Am on Tuesday at Bridgeport Country Club. Read more
MORGANTOWN — As you get older, you begin thinking about what might have been and what you might change and right now, today, after touring the upgraded facility building out of which Coach Neal Brown's West Virginia football program operates out of I decided if there is such a thing as reincarnation, I want to come back as a football player. Read more
Bryson Pinardo might be the only person at Shady Spring who isn’t celebrating the arrival of turf at H.B. Thomas Field this season. Read more
Liberty’s A.J. Williams came into his freshman year of high school full of promise and potential. By the end of his first full season, he had more than lived up to the hype. Read more
TOKYO (AP) — After a yearlong delay and months of hand-wringing that rippled across a pandemic-inflected world, a Summer Games unlike any other is at hand. It's an Olympics, sure, but also, in a very real way, something quite different. Read more
This time of year, as we get settled in for the long days of summer, many are in search of a good read. Some of us head down the hillbilly highway to the coast of the Carolinas for an annual family beach trip, and finding the right book helps us relax and enjoy the sandy beaches and only add… Read more
johnstown, pa. — Ben Newbert and Trey Lipscomb both drove in three runs and Johnstown scored five runs in the sixth inning en route to a 12-2 mercy rule victory over the West Virginia Miners on Saturday. Read more
If you have followed the exploits of Independence football or baseball this past year, you’ve no doubt heard about this Goodson kid. Read more
The teams have been set for the fourth annual New River CTC Invitational high school basketball tournament, which will move back to its usual spot on the calendar. Read more
chillicothe, ohio — Nathan Karaffa’s RBI single drove in Alex Ludwick to complete a three-run rally in the ninth inning in the Chillicothe Paints’ 4-3 win over the West Virginia Miners that completed a doubleheader sweep Thursday at VA Memorial Stadium. Read more
Fourth-seeded Jan-Care completed a nice postseason run with a 14-7 win over No. 2 SERVPRO to win Beckley Babe Ruth League’s Bambino tournament. Read more
At the end of the day, perhaps all that can be written is that the start of Shady Spring’s 2021 season was nearly derailed by a spring. A very shady spring. Read more
HINTON — Summers County will have a new football coach this season. Read more
huntington – Marshall University is mourning the loss of a former football player and beloved personality. Read more
morgantown — It was, to be sure, a Big 12 Football Media Day unlike any other they’ve ever had before. Read more
athens — Dave Walker had been head football coach at Concord University only a short time before it became virtually impossible for his program to fully interact with area high school coaches and players the way he originally intended. Read more
Playing four games in two days got off to a good start for the West Virginia Miners. Read more
More than a dozen high school football programs will be on the Concord campus on Saturday participating in the Mountain Lions’ 7-on-7 competition at Callaghan Stadium. Read more
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