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PHS vs. South: It was always possible

It’s official: Parkersburg’s CrossTown Showdown is headed to Charleston. Parkersburg and Parkersburg South will square off in the Class AAAA state championship at 7:30 p.m. today inside the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center. Thinking back to early January, a conversation was had within the Parkersburg News and Sentinel sports department between reporters. The Patriots had just upset the rival Big Reds 48-47 at Rod Oldham Athletic Center. The atmosphere inside the gym that night was electric. “Imagine if South and PHS met in the state championship game,” a veteran ...

Column: Crazy days and nights

One of the perks of being a scribe is having the opportunity to watch and cover a lot of great student-athletes and see their exploits. Of course, one can’t be in multiple places at the same time, but the sports staff attempts to do the best we can getting out to events. It was a treat to take in last Saturday’s Little Kanawha Conference Night of Champions at Glenville State University’s Waco Center, but at the same time the Pioneer men’s basketball team was on the road and had a 112-66 blowout win versus West Virginia Wesleyan as the G-men drained 18 triples, including an 11 ...

COLUMN: Don’t care about the Seahawks or Patriots? Let me help

I am not the best football prognosticator, as you’ve seen in these very pages. I’m not sure if I even had a prediction for what the Super Bowl LX matchup would be at the start of the season. If I did, though, I’m sure it wouldn’t have been the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. So I’m not about to tell you who’s going to win when those two teams take the field Sunday night. But what I do know very well is what it feels like to not have a dog in this fight, a horse in this race, an Avenger in this Endgame. As a fan of the Washington – what’s their name right ...

Column: Jaguars have a Strange feeling heading into playoffs

Could a local kid make an impact in the NFL postseason this year? Stranger things have happened. At 1 p.m. Sunday in Jacksonville, Fla., Jaguars tight end and Parkersburg High graduate Brenton Strange will make his NFL playoff debut. The Jags last made the postseason in 2022, when Strange was a redshirt junior at Penn State. Jacksonville selected Strange in the second round of the NFL draft in 2023, and the former PHS star athlete has played a pivotal role in the changing of culture for the 2025 AFC South champions. Strange, in his third professional season, put up career-highs ...

Monday Morning Quarterback: No quick fix for WVU

If anyone needed to see the vast canyon between the 2025 West Virginia football team and the best in the Big 12 it was on display in brutal fashion in a 49-0 rout at the hands of Texas Tech Saturday. It was a humiliating afternoon and the worst defeat at home since 1891. With the current ...

Monday Morning Quarterback: Timing’s everything for WVU

Outcomes of games on a season football schedule can often depend to a great extent upon how a team and its opponents are playing at the time the game is played. That has been even more true during the West Virginia football season in 2025. The upset loss at Ohio in the second game was a ...