FORT LAUDERDALE — Jim Crutchfield embraces a challenge, make that major challenges. Fourteen years ago, he took over a 4-23 West Liberty men’s basketball team. He turned the Hilltoppers into 20-game winners in his initial season at the helm. The Clarksburg native followed that ...

BARNESVILLE — Nicole Detling is one of the finest athletes in Barnesville High history. Now, some 25 years later, Dr. Detling is helping elite athletes excel at the highest of levels. Detling was a track and hoop star for the Shamrocks before taking her vast athletic and academic talents to ...

SHADYSIDE — In nearly 20 years in this profession, I’ve written a handful of memorial columns. And in full disclosure mode, none are easy, but the one you are about to read was by far the most difficult. Monday afternoon at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, the Ohio Valley sports ...

WEIRTON — The third annual Ohio Valley Coaching Clinic is on the move. The popular football session is the brainchild of Ohio Valley native and current Emporia State University defensive coordinator Bryan Nardo. The first two clinics were staged in Wheeling and met with solid ...

COLUMBUS — Sportsmanship has been a hot-button issue with the Ohio High School Athletic Association for many years. The OHSAA has poured a lot of effort into its ‘Respect the Game’ moniker. Unfortunately, as it’s pertained to this basketball season, the message has evidently ...

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Big things can come in small packages. Austyn Marsala Hartlieb is 11 years of age and packs just 51 pounds on her 4-6 frame. The diminutive dynamo, however, performs at a huge level when it comes to gymnastics. So much so, Hartlieb, with deep Ohio Valley roots, has a ...