It's not even the fourth of July yet, but already the brightest lights in area high school Division VII basketball tee it up this weekend, whetting hoops appetites for December.
Point guard Cole McClurg (above) and the Wildcats are in northern Ohio playing good competition with the expectation that their experience at Midwest Live will help them be ready when practice starts in November.
The recent OHSAA announcement about 12 teams per region for the playoffs has apparently inspired no one who's concerned with the future of more competitive football. "And Marion Local is still in Division VII," laments one.
A photo of baseball, when baseball was real....Coastal Carolina coach Kevin Schnall got the heave early in the College World Series finale for arguing balls and strikes, and in another example of institutional management...the NCAA looked the worse for it.
A career, and life, far too short, one of harness racing's brightest meteors is being remember for how much he did in such a short amount of time. Bob Roberts writes for Press Pros.
