USFL coming to Akron?
Got an email this morning (Tuesday, 6/26), which included this, from PR man Greg Ball: “As you may have heard, executives from the United States Football League (USFL) will be visiting Akron this week (Tuesday afternoon through Thursday morning) to meet with local officials about the possibility of placing a USFL team there. Jaime Cuadra [...]
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Football weather tonight at WHS
Optimism is on the rise with Wooster High football, which I guess usually is the case when a new head coach comes in, as Doug Haas has done at WHS. Stopped up to watch the first of his 10 summer practices Monday night at Follis Field, where, once the sun went away, it felt like [...]
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Knights have all of the pieces
After returning from the 60-day disabled list, I was only able to cover a few h.s. baseball games this season. Add in that we have Kevin Lynch covering Holmes County and it was a rare opportunity for me to see West Holmes in a regional semifinal. I couldn’t have been more impressed. The Knights completely [...]
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Competitive Balance an issue?
What can we do? One of the big hindrances to area teams has been the strength of the private parochial schools in every high school sport in Ohio. Time and time again, a private school, has eliminated an area team from the state playoffs regardless of the talent on that team. In fact the private [...]
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Daily Record photographer Dan Starcher stopped by Doylestown HS to catch a few innings of the Chippewa-Norwayne Freshman Baseball game. Maybe we will be seeing these guys in the near future!
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Let the kids play
Over the years I have heard some of the most interesting things come out of parents mouths and sometimes it just leaves me flabbergasted. Let me quote some with a few minor edits: — “More people show up to watch my daughter run cross country than some schools draw on a football Friday Night.” — [...]
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It’s all in the name and we try our best
In 10 years working here at The Daily Record, I can truly say that parents of high school athletes never cease to amaze me. As a young man walking out into the real world at 18, I was told that the retail industry was a tough world in which to make my way. Admittedly, now [...]
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Wooster Lacrosse
It’s amazing what a new year, a new coach and just simple change in mentality can do for a program. From being on the outside looking in at the Wooster lacrosse team, I have been thoroughly amazed at how far this team as come. A year ago this was a team built on individuals with [...]
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Ohio State Spring Game
With The Ohio State University spring game right around the corner, I am left pondering what type of team we will field next year, how the recruiting classes will shape up and when all the haters can stop hating. First and foremost is the game, Scarlet vs. Gray. For Ohio State Fans, this will be [...]
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More Brownie bits
Like many others in Northeast Ohio, I can’t get enough of the Browns, even though they’re an NFL laughingstock right now. As next week’s draft stands now, GM Tom Heckert has three of the first 37 picks. While I’d like to see him stand pat at No. 4 and grab Alabama RB Trent Richardson, I’ve [...]
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