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Spending time with South mat

Friday was one of those rare days, almost like having a Saturday off from work, where I didn鈥檛 find myself getting ready to cover a basketball game somewhere in the Mid-Ohio Valley. I figured what better way to spend part of the late afternoon and early evening than taking in some wrestling practice with the three-time defending state champion Parkersburg South Patriots. After head coach Shaun Smith finished practice, I took the opportunity to chat with three-time state champion Josh Humphreys, who is the top-ranked 152-pounder in the Mountain State. The journey for Humphreys to ...

Parkersburg South’s Allie Taylor raising her game on the hardwood

One of my favorite things about sports is the fluidity. Things are always changing from one minute, game, or season to another. This is especially true for high school sports, where graduation is the great equalizer (well sometimes, but in this case the scenario works) and presents ...

This week in MOV鈥坅thletics

Pardon my rant at the beginning of the column... Let me just say, if the PHS boys aren鈥檛 ranked in the Top 10 this week I really have no idea what is going on with the voters. Jeff Mennillo鈥檚 team now owns wins over the No. 2, No. 4 and No. 6 ranked teams in the state in a two-week time period, which is impressive and deserves recognition. Okay ... Rant over. The Big Reds have a chance to pick up another big victory Tuesday night when the eighth-ranked team in Ohio鈥檚 Division I makes a stop at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to the fieldhouse. Logan comes in off a tough loss to W.Va. ...

Picking Patriots, Eagles again

In this era of binge-watching shows online and networks seeming afraid to air reruns, we鈥檙e getting a repeat Super Bowl. It鈥檚 been 13 years since the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles faced off in Super Bowl XXIX, and though a lot has changed, three factors remain the same: Tom Brady is the Patriots鈥� quarterback, Bill Belichick is their coach and the Eagles are underdogs. But unless you鈥檙e an Eagle or Patriot fan 鈥� or harbor an immense dislike for one of the teams 鈥� you might not have any emotional investment in the game itself. That doesn鈥檛 mean you won鈥檛 ...

Roane County’s Lucille Westfall is hidden gemstone

For the love of the game. Not many people know this, but the great Michael Jordan loved the game of basketball so much he had a clause put into his contract stating he could play basketball whenever he wanted. Outside of the season, pick-up games over the summer, special celebrity contests ...

Miller does a lot for the Big Reds

A captain in two sports, soccer and basketball, and a pretty good player in both too. That鈥檚 Parkersburg High School senior Parker Miller, who is planning on majoring in college in such things as exercise physiology or medical microbiology among others. 鈥淏ut I don鈥檛 know for sure yet,鈥� he said. So he鈥檚 smart too, with his GPA so far this year being 4.0. Miller said he 鈥渓oved soccer from playing it as a little kid on travel teams that were pretty good, so that鈥檚 when I started getting good at it.鈥� Growing up, Miller also played football 鈥渁ll the way up until high ...