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Turkey season opens this weekend and I can’t think of a better way to usher in the new season than in the manner in which I was treated to last Saturday by the Warrior Trail Gobblers Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation. The event was hosted at Hunting Hills Shooting Preserve in ...

The firing last weekend of Boston manager Alex Cora and five of his coaches had a trickle-down effect in the Red Sox system, one that has given former Waynesburg University baseball player Kyle Sasala an opportunity of a lifetime. When the Red Sox’s mass firing of coaches happened, Chad ...

Like it or not, the transfer portal has changed college basketball, not only at the Division I level but Division II as well. We’re in a new era. And the winds of change have swept through the men’s basketball program at Penn West California for the second consecutive year. The Vulcans, ...

His reputation and coaching acumen are incomparable. The man is beloved and revered anywhere he’s played and worked. Yet, he is as genuine and down to earth as one could find in the baseball world. He leads with caring and concern for those in his charge, including family, friends, his ...

Unusual guns: Nothing like a Savage 24

One of my favorite parts of being an outdoors writer is pretending to be a gun writer of sorts. Not just because of my long-term admiration for writers such as Col. Jeff Cooper, Gene Hill and Elmer Keith, but rather because of my long-standing affection for the strange and unusual ...

Sports, by its nature, rewards the aggressor. You can’t win a team championship without an aggressive defense. Baseball and softball teams that are aggressive on the basepaths often can create scoring opportunities for themselves and force the opponent into mistakes. Being aggressive in ...