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ALBRIGHT: Can the Red Sox repeat as World Series champions?

American League champion Boston Red Sox dipped in 24 karat gold a dominant Major League Baseball season Sunday night with a World Series championship. National League winner Los Angeles became the final victim of a group responsible for a franchise-record 108 regular-season wins. Manager Dave Roberts’ Dodger club and their fan base proved unable to learn from previous playoff opponents’ mistakes of trolling the Red Sox after their lone win in the best-of-seven series in a 4 games to 1 beatdown. Boston stomped the second- and third-best teams in the majors and 100-plus game ...

Barker tried hard to ‘stop the bleeding’

JACKSON — With a 2-0 advantage in sets and needing one more to secure a berth in Saturday’s OHSAA Division IV district final volleyball match at Jackson High, top-seeded Waterford High seemed almost a lock to advance this past Thursday night But fifth-seeded Bainbridge Paint Valley proved to be an underdog with a bite, and rallied to defeat the Wildcats in the next three sets of the semi. No one in green and white saw that coming. Waterford won the the first two sets with relative ease. In fact, in the opening game, the Wildcats never trailed and won 25-17. In the second game, ...

A diving extraordinaire

Many people were always awed whenever mom effortlessly knifed into the pool water after a dive off the board. Barely a ripple. She reminded me of the late actress/diver Esther Williams in the movies, and I often told her that whenever I saw or talked to her on the phone -- and she would just ...

COLUMN: Instant replay could have helped in the Fort Frye vs. Waterford football game

BEVERLY — Eric McCutcheon probably wishes high school football had instant replay. The Waterford High head coach definitely would’ve liked a review of Wildcat quarterback Peyten Stephens’ run for a 2-point conversion with less than a minute remaining in Friday night’s game at Cadet Field. If the Wildcat signal caller had made it, the contest would’ve been tied at 22-all, and the Waterford-Fort Frye rivalry contest probably would’ve had to have been settled in overtime. (There was still some time remaining on the regulation clock.) But the refs apparently ruled that Stephens ...

COLUMN: Parkersburg South’s Grant Hussey has summer to remember

Baseball gifting big, shiny packages to Parkersburg South’s Grant Hussey shouldn’t be surprising by now. The Patriot dedicates sizable quantities of time, sweat and energy to the sport he has loved since childhood. This fall giving up basketball to focus on baseball fulltime. Effort not ignored by the baseball gods. Already a recipient of prodigious diamond talents, Hussey unwrapped the summer of a lifetime shortly after Hurricane eliminated the Patriots from the Class AAA high school regional tournament, 4-3, on May 24. Three months spent playing ball in front of college ...

Sports Talk: Are we sure big time college sports betting is a good thing? 

While Ohio won’t be ready in time to accept college sports bets, three other states make history this weekend as the first outside of Nevada to allow mass legalized collegiate gambling in the United States. New Jersey, Delaware and Mississippi become first states flaunting victory after a battle N.J. governor Chris Christie started in 2012. The federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) was ruled unconstitutional on May 14, 2018. An outcome opening the flood gates for individual state’s self-governance of a particularly favorite American vice. (We ...