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Sports Columns

Learning the proper golf swing is key to improving

There has been a lot written about the golf swing. This increase can be traced back to the smaller golf world, who is Tiger’s teacher, who is helping Justin Thomas, and the ever-popular debate Haney, Harmon or Ledbetter? As a PGA Professional, I feel very confident in my ability to help ...

Football is back, that’s where total normalcy stops

It has officially arrived! The day so many across the Ohio Valley and state of Ohio have been waiting for. After many months of speculation, questions, debate and even a high level of doubts, football season 2020 is about to kick off. The season officially begins, locally, with ...

Pandemic idles Donnelly after 52 years of baseball

STEUBENVILLE - Rich Donnelly has seen about all there is to see in his 73 years on this earth. The baseball lifer has traveled coast-to-coast via his many diamond playing and coaching assignments. But the Steubenville Catholic product has never witnessed a past four months that the nation has ...

The season sports stood silent after 52 years of reporting

Fifty-two years, that’s a long time ago. The year 1969 was a long time ago. Think about... Richard Nixon was inaugurated as out 37th president. Neil Armstrong was the first to step on the moon. The $500, $1000, $5,000 ad $10,000 dollar bills were officially removed from circulation. Ok, ...

Salem College lost ‘Cradle of Coaches’ member in Young

It’s a well-known fact that Miami University of Ohio, located in Oxford, is called the “Cradle of Coaches,” and deservedly so. The Mid-American Conference school just north of Cincinnati near the Indiana border has produced more than a handful of future NCAA Division I and NFL head ...

Deaton was a lot more than a volleyball guru

WHEELING - He built a prep volleyball powerhouse at Wheeling Central before doing the same at Xavier University. Floyd Deaton, however, was more than a volleyball guru. He was a former standout athlete, an energizing motivator and cherished friend. Deaton died unexpectedly last Sunday in ...