Shoe Laces, Wooden, and Hot Dogs

Super Bowl LX (that’s sixty for you non-Latin majors!) takes place in Santa Clara, California, this coming Sunday between the Seattle Seahawks, representing the...

Snow, Wind, and Titles

I’m assuming everyone’s been hunkered down the past 24 hours or so as Mother Nature vented her wrath on West Central Ohio, along with...

College Football, a Young Ref, and Ermal

As the college football playoffs championship game is getting ready to kick off Monday evening in Miami, an interesting item caught my eye that...

A little bit of this and a lot of that

We spent some time in last week’s column taking a look at high school basketball league and conference standings, both boys and girls, so...

A Busy Start to January Sports and Statistics

As the old saying goes, “And now we welcome the New Year, full of things that have never been”. And I know that 2026 will...

Football, Zone Defense and New Year Wishes

Well, we’ve arrived at that time of the year when events of 2025 are remembered, and the promise of 2026 is looked forward to...

Christmas Trivia and “The Mouse”

As we head into Christmas week (on an optimistic note the daylight hours have begun to  lengthen!) it’s time to break out some holiday...

Disapointments, Bowl Games, the NBA, and Mother Goose

Man, it’s tough being a fan of professional football in Ohio these days isn’t it? Both the Browns and Bengals continue to disappoint the...

OH MY!! O-H, I-U!!!

Pass the A-1 sauce, maybe a little lemon, some garlic and/or oregano perhaps. I’m ready to eat crow after predicting in my last column...

Brutus, Charlie Brown, and Superman

That huge sigh of relief spreading throughout Buckeye Nation was a result of THE finally taking down the Wolverines for the first time since...