Friday’s area games gave a glimpse of one possible failing in the OHSAA competitive balance agenda. There may be too many miles, and not enough players, between what we have now…and what some seek! Read more in today’s Sunday inside feature.

For 34 years Dr. Kreg Huffer has worked at perfecting the art of chiropractic and alternative healing methods. Now, at the height of a boom in popularity, Huffer simply wants to get the word out. Read more about it in today’s Press Pros inside feature.

It was actually fun – time on the field with the players, and freedom to ask whatever you wanted to whomever you wanted, for as long as you wanted. It was media day as you like it to be…with the UD Flyers.

Area players and teams tune up this weekend for next Friday’s opener, leaving some observers to wonder as to who’s more ready…the teams or the fans? Arcanum’s Dylan Burns was impressive, busting a nice run in the Trojans’ dress rehearsal against Milton-Union. Read more. (Photo by Julie McMaken Wright)

I knew him personally for a very short time, but in that decade Reds scout Gene Bennett taught me a lot I didn’t know about people…and a little bit about baseball.

The career and passing of Mickey Mantle served as a sad reminder…that there’s a difference in role models and heroes. Unfortunately, it took a figure as outwardly popular as Mantle to make us understand. On the anniversary of his death, a tribute to “The Mick” in today’s Press Pros feature.

Big, And Bigger….Recovered and back for his senior year, Marion Local tackle John Dirksen (above, #74) regrets his missed junior season, a missed state championship. But he’s back now, and eager to make up for lost time and enjoy the simple joy of football. Read more in today’s Press Pros inside feature

My neck has more wrinkles than it once had, but I’ll stick it out nonetheless as another high school football season launches in just two weeks. Here’s my picks for teams of interest in 2017…and just how well they MIGHT do. Enjoy and discuss amongst yourselves…today’s Press Pros inside feature.

At the time he was seeking his fourth consecutive football title, and his eighth overall, and if you didn’t see our summer feature on Marion Local’s Tim Goodwin in 2014 we thought you’d enjoy reading it now. If you did see it before, enjoy this Press Pros encore, to date the most-read feature profile in the history of the site.

A decade after building the Arcanum Trojans into a perennial champion contender, their former coach, Jason Schondelmyer, finds himself in the position of being their present coach…trying to build the Trojans into a champion contender again. Read more in today’s Press Pros inside feature.