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Wondering what might have been with a win

There is plenty of news to look at this week in the current collegiate sports landscape or of that in the near future, so letÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ get to it.As I watched Game 1 of the College Softball World Series Monday night between Florida State and Washington and then Game 2 Tuesday night, I couldn’t help ...

Is Reigns tainted?

For a few weeks now, the game plan was to discuss Roman Reigns and whether he had become the modern-day Lex Luger.But with the new Raw deal between WWE and NBCUniversal breaking two weeks ago and with the WWE deal with Fox for Smackdown Live breaking last week, the focus went in that ...

Best time to view our regional brand—Mountain laurel

The name rolls off our tongues around here without thought to its source. I remember the first time I heard it. We were in our eighth-grade homeroom at the old North Union High School when someone announced over the wall-mounted speaker that the chosen name for the new consolidated district ...

What happened to spring?

After the lingering cold and snow of April, Mother Nature decided to skip the rest of spring and get right down to the business of summer. May has been more summer-like rather than spring with temperatures frequently in the mid- and upper-80s instead of the low 70s, which is the average for ...

CWS gets underway

While the majority of college sports fans focus on the relatively new football playoff or the cash cow that is the March Madness basketball tournament, they may actually take a backseat to baseball and softball when it comes to doing the postseason right.The college football playoff is still in ...

Pitt continues to ignore Hyatt’s legacy

On this Memorial Day holiday weekend I thought I would clean out some items from my Memory Lane notebook:1. Pitt continues to ignore Hyatt legacyIt is a mystery why The University of Pittsburgh continues to turn a blind eye to the greatest basketball player in the history of the school. That ...