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Expectations on the rise in Barnesville

By SETH STASKEY Times Leader Sports Editor BARNESVILLE — In many ways, the 2017 Barnesville football season was a learning experience. Head coach Blake Allen — who experienced his fair share of learning last season — is now looking for his team to take what it learned and apply it to ...

Bellaire features increased depth

By SETH STASKEY Times Leader Sports Editor BELLAIRE — Mark Spigarelli is certainly aware of the expectations that surround the Bellaire football program. After all, other than a handful of seasons that he spent coaching at West Liberty, Spigarelli has been a part of the Big Reds program ...

Buckeye Local aims to restore the roar

By RICK DELUCA Times Leader Sports Writer CONNORVILLE — Roger Herbert came to Buckeye Local last fall set on re-building the Panther football program. He endured a winless season as the school’s third coach in three years. Talking to Coach Herbert, it takes just a minute of the ...

Ohio State tries to put turmoil aside

By RICK THORP Times Leader Sports Writer COLUMBUS — The Ohio State football team will take the field a week from Saturday. And when it does, the Buckeyes will need to put the turmoil that’s surrounded the program during the last month aside and focus on the Week 1 opponent — Oregon ...

Maturity, continuity present for WVU

By JIM BUTTA For The Times Leader MORGANTOWN – Veteran West Virginia University head football coach Dana Holgorsen has a number of reasons to believe this year’s edition of the Old Gold and Blue will be much better than the ones he led during his first seven seasons in Morgantown. The ...

Newcomers to play a role for WVU

By JIM BUTTA Special to The Times Leader MORGANTOWN – It would be hard pressed to find a fan of West Virginia University football who hasn’t heard of Will Grier, David Sills V, Gary Jennings Jr., Yodny Cajuste, David Long Jr. or Dravon Askew-Henry. But, when it comes to the 2018 ...