YOUNGSTOWN — More than a week has passed since Youngstown State’s improbable second-half meltdown against Yale in the first round of the FCS playoffs. While the eight remaining teams in the playoffs are preparing for the quarterfinals this upcoming weekend, the Penguins have entered the ...

BERLIN CENTER — Both sets of Blue Devils seemed content to play at a blistering pace in the first quarter of Monday’s Western Reserve-McDonald league game. But come the second quarter, it became clear that only Reserve could finish what it started. After an opening period in which the ...

Not even Shedeur Sanders being named Cleveland’s starting quarterback the rest of the season on Monday could quiet the second-guessing about Kevin Stefanski’s failed 2-point conversion decisions in the 31-29 loss to Tennessee. The two conversions on Sunday were poorly executed, and ...

PITTSBURGH — Aaron Rodgers was smiling. But he wasn’t kidding. Not long after a 27-22 victory over Baltimore on Sunday in which the Pittsburgh Steelers somehow pulled themselves back from the brink, their future Hall of Fame quarterback did what he’s done in his unique (if occasionally ...

The 2025 high school football season came to a close this past weekend with the crowning of seven state champions. Closer to home, the season concluded a week earlier when two local teams were eliminated in state semifinal games. Despite those setbacks, the season provided area football ...

BEAVER TOWNSHIP — Long considered one of the area’s most enthusiastic and animated scholastic football coaches, Andy Hake has also been one of the state’s most successful head mentors over the past three decades. Since 2009, beginning at Western Reserve, then at Valley Christian and ...