Here are a couple tales from my career in journalism to help take the edge off, something I plan to do from time to time to keep things light.
Time will tell if Indians fans who dislike the franchise's choice of Guardians for the new team name will ever take to it. They have no choice, obviously, because that's the nickname going forward when the 2021 season is in the books.
While the continuous waxing and waning of the Covid-19 pandemic has left that movement mostly stuck in neutral since it began in early 2021, that doesn't mean the fire isn't there to restart the league, which disbanded following the 2004-05 school year after having been in existence since 1922.
For a Group of 5 college football team to pull an upset of an upper-tier Power 5 squad, three primary factors must be in place.
A person can go their entire life never figuring out exactly what they want to do with it.
For others, their life path falls into their lap — whether they realize it at the time or not.
In the case of Joe Beardsley, his career was in his hands as a youth when his mother, Tracey, handed her only child a camera — and his love of the lens was born.
One glance at the career resume of Mike Haney tells you that the Kent Roosevelt High School baseball coach has a boatload of impressive career accomplishments.
In fact, the lengthy list of numbers and honors is virtually overwhelming — and they're why the 1992 Roosevelt and '99 Kent State graduate is headed toward induction into the Greater Akron Baseball Hall of Fame later this year.
As expected, the opening round of the OHSAA's new football playoff format of 16 teams per region qualifying for the postseason featured one mauling of a 16 seed after another last weekend.
I stood with my dad in the darkened backyard of our home in Mogadore, experiencing a Christmas Eve night like none before: The mercury had plunged to minus 14 degrees, and the several inches of snow that blanketed the yard had frozen to the point that we could actually walk on top of it, the snow crunching loudly with each step we took.
The weather is warming. The flowers are blooming. The birds are chirping.
Spring, at long last, has finally emerged in Northeast Ohio. And in the spirit of the long-awaited transition to the season of rebirth and happiness, now would be a good time for a lighter Round 2 and to give readers another peek behind the curtain of life as a journalist. Enjoy!
When I saw my old Portage County friend Chas Madonio will give a talk at the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library about the music scene in Kent in the 1960s and ’70s, I immediately reserved seats at the event for my wife and myself.