I ran into Calvin Bailey a lot in my days at the Gazette and the Gazette-Mail. Most of the time, it came when I was out covering a high school game.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Seventh 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).
EDITOR’S NOTE: Sixth 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).
EDITOR’S NOTE: Fifth 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).
EDITOR’S NOTE: Fourth 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).
EDITOR’S NOTE: Third 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).
EDITOR’S NOTE: Second 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).
EDITOR’S NOTE: First of 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 Citizen-Times, N.C. (1990-94) and Charleston Gazette-Mail (1994-2020).
Our email accounts at the newspaper get flooded with a steady stream of junk, but one particular item caught my eye earlier this week when it crossed into my inbox.
Wednesday was supposed to be the day that the boys state basketball tournament tipped off. But the coronavirus shot down that notion before it ever started.
In all the years I’ve covered high school football in West Virginia (hint: it goes back to the 1970s), I can’t recall a season quite like this one when it comes to the Kennedy Award.
I used to joke with fellow reporters years ago that I didn’t look forward to interviewing coach John Messinger after South Charleston football games because he was such a talker that it put me in a deadline pinch.
Not every conversation with a high school football coach this time of year deals with X’s and O’s. Sometimes, you go a little bit deeper.
With all the current chatter concerning the four-class basketball proposal for West Virginia high schools, one question seems to have been lost in the shuffle.
Dave Morrison has spent a lifetime helping high school athletes around West Virginia get a little more publicity for their accomplishments.
The balance of power in Mountain State Athletic Conference football used to reside squarely in Kanawha County, with Capital, George Washington and South Charleston leading the way.
Starting Monday, a brand new day dawns for prep baseball teams in West Virginia.
By the time the next basketball season rolls around, the Mountain State Athletic Conference will be down to 11 teams, as Ripley is scheduled to depart following fall sports.
I started following Gonzaga basketball about 20 years ago when I drew the Zags out of a hat in our NCAA office pool two straight seasons, right about the time their program started taking off.
Things could get interesting in the months to come if you read between the lines in the recruitment of Mingo Central’s Jeremy Dillon.
The moment when you really know there’s something spiritual about football:
This marks the third year that Kanawha County schools has employed an earlier start date for classes, with students reporting on Aug. 10.