Jan. 16—MITCHELL — Three years ago, Taylor DeJong walked into the Mitchell High School wrestling room knowing very little about the sport. Today, the senior captain carries herself with the confidence of a veteran, blending experience, leadership and steady improvement as she closes out her prep career with the Kernels’ girls wrestling program. Advertisement Advertisement […]
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Jan. 16—Watching the routines his teammates go through before matches and gaining additional ideas from coaches have helped Hunter Foss develop his own. That routine is paying off in big ways so far this year. Foss is a senior wrestler for Valley View. He won the 132-pound weight class at the Miamisburg Pool Tournament and […]
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Jan. 16—HASTINGS, Minn. — Hockey Day Minnesota is no longer just a day-long celebration of hockey in the State of Hockey. Over the course of its 18 years, Hockey Day Minnesota has evolved into a week-long event. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement This year, that event will be held in the southeastern Twin Cities suburbs, specifically at […]
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Just about everything is new this season for Brother Rice’s Adam McBrearty. The junior forward is at a different school after transferring from Mount Carmel. He’s in his first year of varsity basketball. And he’s being asked to play a different role than he’s accustomed to. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement One thing remains the same, though. […]
Read MoreNorthview defeated host Greencastle 48-37 in a nonconference high school girls basketball on Friday night, and the Knights followed up with a 54-36 win over Western Indiana Conference foe, Owen Valley, on Saturday at Brazil. Carlee Schrader paced the Knights with 18 points and Reagin White added 16 in Friday’s game. The duo heated up […]
Read MoreJan. 9—BEMIDJI — It’s been 33 days since the Bemidji State men’s hockey team has played in a game that counts. Save for an exhibition on Jan. 2 — a 3-3 tie against the University of Minnesota at the Sanford Center — the Beavers have been off since Dec. 7. BSU didn’t get its first […]
Read MoreJan. 9—BEMIDJI — Ben Kinne heard an all too familiar phrase ringing through his head in the third period. Trailing 2-1 against East Grand Forks, the defending Class A state champs, the Bemidji High School boys hockey could almost discern Tom Serratore’s cadence from over a decade ago. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement “I heard it for […]
Read MoreJan. 9—MORGANTOWN — It hasn’t taken long for Morgantown High sophomore Leah Greeny to make a name for herself in the world of high school volleyball in West Virginia. After leading the Mohigans to the 2025 Class AAAA state championship and a first-team all-state selection by the West Virginia Sportswriters Association, Greeny was chosen as […]
Read MoreJan. 8—MORGANTOWN — West Virginia and Rich Rodriguez keep loading up in the transfer portal. LSU wide receiver TaRon Francis has committed to the Mountaineers, according to CBS Sports’ Chris Hummer. Francis picked WVU after a reported visit with Iowa State and his visit to Morgantown on Wednesday. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Francis was a highly […]
Read MoreJan. 8—BURNSVILLE — Bemidji State sports will have a new streaming home this fall. The NSIC announced a partnership with Midco Sports on Monday, putting the NSIC Network on Midco Sports Plus starting this fall. It will stream every home Beaver football, volleyball, women’s soccer, softball, baseball and men’s and women’s basketball game, in-conference and […]
Read MoreJan. 6—FREEMAN, S.D. — Adding yet another accolade to an undefeated state championship season, Freeman/Marion/Freeman Academy was tabbed as the top nine-man football team in the country for 2025 by MaxPreps.com. Announced Monday, the national prep sports database’s computer ratings gave the Phoenix a score of 74.4, cementing them as the runaway top nine-man team. […]
Read MoreJan. 1—ST. PAUL — Steve Miller nearly became a wrestler. Before his 39 seasons of coaching in college hockey and before his nine stints with Team USA in the IIHF World Junior Championships, the Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, native was given a heck of a recruiting pitch to compete in the wrestling room. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement […]
Read MoreJan. 1—HAYFIELD — That Hayfield and Schaeffer Academy were able to get together last year and co-op for girls basketball put a smile on lots of faces. Among those still smiling brightest is Schaeffer’s Lily Morrisey. Basketball is the sport that the athletic 6-foot senior does best. The thought of being without it — which […]
Read MoreThe Somerset Lady Jumpers concluded play at their own Holiday Classic on Tuesday as they took on the Clinton County Lady Bulldogs. It was a game full of momentum swings, with the game being tied with just seconds left on the clock. Just as it looked like it was going to head to overtime, eighth […]
Read MoreJan. 1—JAMESTOWN — Bernadette Belzer had two loves in high school. When she got to college, she had to choose just one. Hockey was not the one she decided to pursue. Belzer, now a junior at the University of Mary, is in the throes of her third season with the U Mary track and field […]
Read MoreDec. 29—This year was the setting for many memorable moments where Alle-Kiski Valley athletes and teams shined with championship performances and accomplishments in all arenas of competition. Here’s a look back at a number of the top stories of the year in the A-K Valley. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement 10. Burrell hockey wins Challenger Cup Burrell […]
Read MoreDec. 26—BEMIDJI — The Harlem Globetrotters will stop in Bemidji as part of their 100 Year Tour, performing at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 3, at the Sanford Center, 1111 Event Center Drive NE. “Since 1926, the Globetrotters, proud members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, have used their legendary global tour to […]
Read MoreDec. 24—Lyle grad Trey Anderson grew up with current Lyle-Pacelli head coach Carl Tuckenmiller coaching him at every level, and now Trey has joined forces with Truckenmiller, and also his older brother Tyson in an effort to lead the Athletics on the hardwood. Trey, a 2023 graduate, was attending Riverland Community College when Truckenmiller reached […]
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Amid the spectacle of the College Football Playoff’s opening weekend — and the nagging sense that we’re watching a sport we no longer love — here’s the uncomfortable question no one in power seems eager to answer: Is college football slowly turning off the very fans who built it? Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement […]
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Dec. 17—Capsules for the 2025-26 Northeast A boys and girls basketball teams. In alphabetical order by division. Records and standings from 2024-25 season. Boys Northeast A Colville (7-14, 0-6, fourth): The Crimson Hawks had a tough time in league last year, but third-year coach Josh Morgan has five letterwinners back, with a strong senior contingent […]
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ROSEMOUNT — When games are postponed and moved around due to weather, it can be difficult for a team to stay locked in. However, the Green Bobcats’ girls basketball program certainly looked the part of a group that was fully locked in Tuesday evening. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement In a contest against a Clay Panthers’ girls […]
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PORTSMOUTH — The weather outside may have still been on the cold side from a recent snowstorm that left many in the area missing two or three days of school as a result of this weekend’s winter storm warnings that blanketed much of the Tri-State Area. However, the basketball contest that occurred between the Fairland […]
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Welcome back home, Urban Meyer. Welcome back to Gator Nation. Welcome back into the University of Florida family. As someone who has been one of Meyer’s biggest critics, let me just say this: Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement It’s about time. In a decision that rubbed some Urban haters the wrong way, Florida’s administration […]
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CHICAGO — Pat Spencer still sticks out on the basketball court. That was true six years ago when he put on a Northwestern jersey for the first time as a graduate transfer. And it was true again Sunday night, when the former Wildcat stepped onto the United Center court for the Golden State Warriors and […]
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COLUMBUS — Scioto County was again well-represented on the Division V All-Ohio list earlier this week, as a total of 21 individuals were named as All-Ohio honorees by the Ohio Prep Sports Media Association (OPSMA) this past week with Wheelersburg head coach Rob Woodward obtaining Division V All-Ohio Co-Coach of the Year honors. Woodward, the […]
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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Jeremy Dietz Jr. has spent a little less than a year officiating junior high school sports, and he aims to move up to refereeing varsity sports soon. As a lifelong basketball player, the 18-year-old said, he appreciates the opportunity to “stay around the game.” Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement When he learned that his […]
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Penn State Athletic Director Patrick Kraft announced the selection of Rob Dow as men’s soccer head coach. Dow, who owns the nation’s ninth-best win percentage among active men’s soccer coaches with five or more seasons leading a team, comes to Happy Valley after serving as the head coach at Vermont for […]
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INOLA — For a few electric minutes in the second quarter, the Inola Indoor Sports Arena belonged entirely to Makiah Barnett. The senior exploded for 11 points in the frame, finishing a 3-point play and burying back-to-back 3-pointers that sent the Inola bench into a frenzy. When Izzy Helling followed with three-straight free throws moments […]
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Dec. 3—More than 20 players from the Miami Valley have signed or made verbal commitments to a Division I school. Wednesday is the second year an early National Signing Day takes place in early December after it originally was held in the third week of the month since 2017. Prospects must sign their letter of […]
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The overall rank of the Gophers football program’s 2026 recruiting class is strong: 24th in the nation, per 247Sports composite ranking as of Tuesday morning. “A top 25 class, especially in this day and age where there’s all kinds of moving parts, I think is really, really good,” Allen Trieu, an analyst for 247Sports, told […]
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Nov. 30—Winter athletes, you got next. But let’s first reflect on the end of the 2025 prep fall sports seasons, which officially reached the finish line Saturday afternoon with the last of the state football championship games. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement MAKE IT THREE: Gianna Rahmer of Eldorado won her third straight Class 5A cross country […]
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