EDITOR’S NOTE: Tenth in a series. Staff writer Rick Ryan has seen a lot come and go in his newspaper career. Following are recollections from his days at the Wheeling Intelligencer (1978-90), Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times (1990-94) and Charleston Gazette-Mail (1994-2020).
When I heard that the North-South football and basketball all-star game organizers would try to hold those events despite the complications of the coronavirus pandemic, I thought it was a noble undertaking.
It involved some intense, investigative journalism, but I believe I’ve discovered the most significant loss in sports attributed to the coronavirus pandemic:
As you know by now, I’m a racing guy. If you can drive it fast and turn it left, I’ll watch it.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Ninth in a series. Staff writer Rick Ryan has seen a lot come and go in his newspaper career. Following are recollections from his days at the Wheeling Intelligencer (1978-90), Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times (1990-94) and Charleston Gazette-Mail (1994-2020).
As everyone knows, these are unusual times. Here are some things that I miss and some things that I don’t miss.
This will be the toughest, most difficult season in the history of collegiate football.
It’s easy to see the small picture.
The recruiting landscape in college football these days is … challenging.
In a span of just under four months in the fall and winter of 1984, three things happened — I was born, Michael Jordan made his NBA debut and LeBron James was born.
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I made a typographical error in my column last week: I meant to say that we need more sports, not less. In my defense, I’d been washing and folding my American flag and wasn’t focused on my Samsung Galaxy Book S keyboard.
We are missing sports. Now that we have no live sporting events, the national networks are filling the time by showing old games. They are also making lists.
There is one group of people who are underestimated and often underappreciated in the sports world.
I know everyone wants a triumphant return of sports, that glorious day when the games we all love come back, when folks who mark their calendars every year for opening day get their wish and stands are full and crowds are loud. The balance of the sporting world is restored and every team in …
How many times have we heard the following remark from Marshall University fans?
As of late last week, we know the new scheduled dates for the three-week prep sports summer practice period in Kanawha, Putnam and several surrounding counties — July 6-25.
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A while ago – the exact year escapes me – I determined that someway somewhere in some manner or some fashion most of us in America had somehow lost our minds.
The southern coalfields of West Virginia lost one of their greatest athletes in late April.