This past March marked 20 years since the Kent State men’s basketball team shocked the college basketball world by reaching the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament.
Michael Hall Jr. was among the most sought-after prep football players in the country during his star-studded days at Streetsboro High School.
As we wait to hear the length of Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson’s coming suspension, we ask ourselves: Why do so many professional athletes put their lucrative careers in jeopardy with risky, boneheaded behavior?
Now, however, after 22 years of building a loyal readership across the county, Tom Nader is no longer a part of the Record-Courier sports team.
So where are we with high school athletics and Covid-19? To answer that question, I turned to Rootstown High School athletic director, golf and baseball coach Keith Waesch to take a look at where we've been in the last year-plus and where we're going with respect to the upcoming 2021-22 school year, particularly the rapidly approaching fall sports season, as we grind through a two steps forward, one step back post-pandemic America.
Harry DeVault was a legend long before I arrived at the Record-Courier in March 1994. Harry had covered Kent Roosevelt High School and Kent State athletics for decades by then — decades that included yours truly reading his stories daily in my formative years. As far as I was concerned, no R-C sports section was complete without seeing Harry's byline in it.
As the old saying goes, you-know-what runs downhill. And it’s only a matter of time before the Golden Flashes and the MAC get a faceful of it.
A small group of influential sports leaders is hoping to revive and update the Portage County League, building on the tradition of the original PCL, which was founded in 1922 and slowly dismantled over the last two decades.
Rain isn’t the only baseball-season annoyance. Parents taking their kids to Hot Stove Baseball games at Volunteer Park in Ravenna know this well, as most of them have navigated the pothole-riddled road to the fields.
Photo by TravelKS, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deer archery season is fast approaching for Ohio hunters Here’s what you need to know...
The chapter titles alone are enticing, like Marty Hill and the Impossible Dream: The 1975-76 Bombers, the Legend of the 1978 Bombers, The 84-86 Football Teams-The Evolution of a Champion, and even Windham’s Original Ghostbuster: Thomson Jay Hudson.