Shareik Flowers: Muhammad Ali Sports often transcend competition and creep into the political world. Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos are more renowned for their black power salute at the 1968 Olympics than they are for their world-class speed, and Colin Kaepernick's anthem ...
By Cory Giger cgiger@altoonamirror.com There are so many questions about the future of college football right now because of the coronavirus, and many of them boil down to one big thing -- money. There not only are financial uncertainties for universities, conferences and TV networks, but ...
By CORY GIGER cgiger@altoonamirror.com Penn State Athletic Director Sandy Barbour doesn't know exactly when the next college football season will begin, but she sounded confident there will indeed be a season, even if that means delaying it until next spring because of the ...
By SHAREIK FLOWERS sflowers@lockhaven.com MILL HALL- The coronavirus' sudden disturbance suspended the Winter Championships and spring season until further notice. There's no telling when, or even if, PIAA sports will resume this season-- so The Express has decided to reflect on some of the ...
By Cory Giger cgiger@altoonamirror.com Penn State football coaches have had to learn how to become online professors during the coronavirus shutdown, trying to get their message across through video chats to players who are spread across the country. Defensive coordinator Brent Pry ...
By Cory Giger cgiger@altoonamirror.com Penn State has a new offensive coordinator in Kirk Ciarrocca, so missing spring practice because of the coronavirus certainly could present some challenges for the team this fall. Then again, Ciarrocca was able to make a lot of inroads with the ...
By AARON JAMES ajames@lockaven.com With the shortened academic and athletic 2019-2020 year, it has given us time to reflect on some memorable moments, performances, and accomplishments before everything came to a screeching halt. Jersey Shore athletics have had a remarkable year that ...
The offseason is a time that I’ve written about on numerous occasions. It is a time that I believe is critical in the development of players. It is a time that I love as a coach because it is one that allows for much growth among athletes. That is at least among athletes who want it. ...
By SHAREIK FLOWERS sflowers@lockhaven.com The ramifications of the coronavirus enforced a complete halt of the PIAA athletic calendar. The Winter Championships have been delayed since mid-march, while the spring season has yet to officially commence. And with Governor Wolf ordering all ...
Over the course of the past few weeks, sports fans around the world have had to grasp on to memories and historic moments in sports history to fill the void of a currently sports-less world. Social media has been filled with polls, comparisons, countdowns, and "Top 10" lists throughout the ...
By MICHAEL RENDOS For The Express The Society for American Baseball Research is an organization dedicated to the study and dissemination of any type of information regarding one of America’s greatest pastimes – the game of baseball. One of the organization’s informational articles ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A stint in the XFL has landed three players jobs with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The team signed defensive end Dewayne Hendrix, safety Tyree Kinnel and linebacker/long snapper Christian Kuntz to one-year deals on Monday. All three played in the XFL under the startup league ...
By CORY GIGER For The Express Penn State has a chance to enjoy a great football season this fall -- if there actually is football -- but a lot of what happens months from now on the field will depend on what the players do at home over the coming weeks and months. There's no spring ...
LOCK HAVEN— March is National Athletic Training Month and Linda Platt Meyer ‘83 is just one of hundreds of Lock Haven University athletic training alumni influencing the profession. For the last three decades, Meyer has been an educator, an industry advocate and public speaker. It’s ...
By CORY GIGER For The Express Penn State’s football season is scheduled to kick off in 162 days, which seems like a long time away, but the reality is there’s simply no way to know right now how the sports world — or the world in general — will look at that point because of the ...
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH— Six months ago, Stefen Wisniewski’s Sundays consisted of spending the afternoon watching the NFL on TV wondering if his phone was ever going to ring. The veteran offensive lineman tried not to fixate on the circumstances that led to him sitting ...
By: SAM KUPERMAN For The Express With the ramifications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the end of the 2019-20 NCAA athletic season was drastically sped up. While we don't have live sports to give us a break from our current reality, we can look back at some of the best ...
It's been two weeks and a day since almost the entire sports world dove head-first into a complete shutdown. Absent is March Madness. Gone are the NBA playoffs, NHL Playoffs and the NCAA Winter Wrestling Championships. As of today the status for the PIAA Winter Championships and spring ...
By AARON JAMES ajames@lockhaven.com Those who were able, or fortunate enough, to play high school athletics know looking back on the prime of their lives how much we didn’t appreciate what we had when we had it. We hold those memories closer every day that has passed, and still continue ...
By SHAREIK FLOWERS sflowers@lockhaven.com MILL HALL-Being a sports reporter is one of life's greatest privileges-- and I'm blessed to have landed a career in a field I've had enthusiastic interest in since I was a child. In elementary school I remember my father returning home from work ...