It’s been 27 years, and my wife Kim and I still can’t explain what happened to us one hot summer day in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
March 4 marked 30 years since the day I was hired at the Record-Courier.
On the hazard scale, sports writing ranks somewhere near the bottom. After all, tapping away on a laptop computer doesn’t really qualify as death defying.
One of the advantages of a digital publication like The Portager is that, should a mistake find its way into a story, we can always go back in and fix it. Print is a different animal. If there’s an error in a newspaper, it’s there to stay — and for everyone to see.
My piece in the March 25 edition of The Portager detailing now-former Ohio State football player Harry Miller's struggles with depression, highlighted by his emotional March 21 in-studio appearance on NBC's "Today" show, stressed the importance of society taking mental health seriously to combat the continued increase in suicide rates.
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.
The Kent State University athletic program has a long and rich history with the Olympic Games. And when the 2024 Summer Olympics get underway today in Paris, the Golden Flashes will once again be well represented.
at the Record-Courier involved a speaking engagement by Lou Holtz at Kent State University's Student Center ballroom in April 1994. The famous KSU alum was the head football coach at Notre Dame at the time, so it was a rare opportunity for a cub reporter to rub elbows with college football royalty. Since part of my assignment was to interview Holtz after his speech, I came armed with several pages of interview questions for the living legend.
The 2005 graduate of Rootstown High School made her professional MMA debut in 2010. On July 2, “Evil” Eye announced her retirement from the sport immediately following her loss to Maycee Barber by unanimous decision in a women’s flyweight bout during the early prelims of UFC 276 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
If you’re a fan of college sports, take as much in as you can in the 2023-24 athletic season. Because life as we know it will change forever starting in fall 2024.