HUBBARD — Girard and Hubbard both entered Friday’s game against each other with hopes of winning the Northeast 8 Athletic Conference this year. But only one team left Memorial Stadium with its title dreams realized. The Indians, who beat Poland last week to claim sole possession of first ...

MCDONALD — The McDonald Blue Devils are celebrating 100 years of football this year, and they’re making it a memorable one. The Devils captured a share of the Mahoning Valley Athletic Conference Scarlet Tier title by defeating Springfield at home on Friday. The teams came into the game ...

GARRETTSVILLE — Friday’s game between Crestview and Garfield had major league implications. Whoever was left standing after the dust settled was going to put themselves in prime position to win the Mahoning Valley Athletic Conference’s Gray Tier. In addition to the league title being on ...

Full disclosure! This was intended to be a feature, a story on the life of a high school football coach who, for the first time in 47 years, is spending his Friday nights in the fall away from the sidelines. Intrigued at how Jeff Bayuk was adapting to his role as a high school football ...

Tick. Tock. Tick. … The clock and the calendar are relentless. Time marches on. Days fly by. The years pile up. Seems like only a few years ago my buddies and I were traipsing the banks of Yellow Creek in the Poland Municipal Forest, a spinning rod in one hand and a can of worms in ...

PITTSBURGH — Asked earlier this week about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ struggles on the road in Thursday night games, Mike Tomlin gruffly responded he’d gotten his butt kicked in many different ways during his 19 years on the sideline. Add one more to the list. More jarring than the ...