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Bledsoe should get OK to play

WHEELING - The NCAA is a much-maligned agency. The college-controlling organization, based in Indianapolis, is anything but athlete-friendly. The NCAA holds student-athletes to much stricter, and often times unfair, standards than it does its coaches. Coaches have unrestricted career ...

OFF THE TEE: Play it Again Sports event highlights busy week at WPGC

The Wheeling Park Golf Club had another busy week of events as its season rolled along. One of the bigger events of the calendar was the Presidents Cup Play it Again Sports 36 Hole Best Ball Championship. Capturing the title of that event was the team of Jay Davis and Mike ...

Peckinpaugh leaves WJU for his family

WHEELING — He took over a program under some of the toughest circumstances imaginable. To his credit, his team exhibited exceptional progress as the season played out. And now, John Peckinpaugh is on the move again. Peckinpaugh resigned his post as Wheeling Jesuit University men’s ...

OFF THE TEE: Oglebay Park Men’s Golf Club holds Dailer Memorial Tourney

The Oglebay Park Men’s Golf Club teed it up again last week with the Dubie Dailer Memorial Tournament. One hundred players took part in the evne tthat was played in two-man scramble format at Crispin Center Golf Course. Winning in a tiebreaker was the duo of Jim Bittengle and ...

NBA-bound Beilein still remembered by Ohio Valley friends

WHEELING - From a marginal player at Wheeling College to NBA head coach. John Beilein is that man. Beilein didn’t script much of a collegiate playing career with the Cardinals. However, he has authored a brilliant one as a collegiate head coach, including a stint at WVU. So the ...

OFF THE TEE: Barnesville Community Alumni Band scramble winners named

The Barnesville Community Alumni Band Golf Scramble was held on May 11 at Belmont Hills Country Club with a large field of players taking part. The team of Mark Maguire Jr., Mark Maguire Sr., Nick Wolle and Jim Dailer shot a round of 12-under, 60 to win the title. Finishing second ...