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Sports Columns

Down year doesn’t mean a bleak future for Lake Erie fishing

Sooner or later, life teaches us, we will experience a hiccup in the unprecedented run of years of fantastic Lake Erie walleye fishing. In fishing, as in baseball, basketball and football, we fans know we cannot win them all. Undefeated is as good as it gets, and nobody I know is undefeated. ...

Thinking of the past, present and future

Reflections look back to the good times that provide context for the opportunities that stretch out in front of us as the new year draws near. While many are chronicling the highlights of the past 12 months as a first history of 2024, my time of reflection is my initial look-see at the 12 ...

It’s not a College Football Playoff flaw, it’s just the year

Last Saturday, the college football world got it’s first look at the expanded 12-team playoff. The College Football Playoff ads were plastered all over television, YouTube channels and social media since the start of the football season. It was marketed as a chance to see more teams with ...

Another memorable year of fishing

But for some twist in the road back around about the time John F. Kennedy was president, I might be writing today about a topic other than fishing. Indeed, something about fishing lit a fire in my soul when I was a youngster. I often reflect about my earliest fishing experiences, and I’ve ...

Hiner: Make or break for Day in matchup with Wolverines

So, Ryan Day, you wanted to be the head coach of the Ohio State football team? With that title comes presssure, and for a number of successful coaches, today marked a dark day in their careers. The most notable on the Ohio State end of things was John Cooper. Yeah, he finished his time as the ...

Wollitz: Quick flashes of Muskie fishing

Who doesn’t love getting struck by lightning? It’s happened to me many times while I cast my way around northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Bolts of lightning have lit up my days while fishing for bass, walleyes and crappies. And yet, I’m here today to write about lightning ...