NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Ty Gibbs didn't question his crew chief's final pit call. "I can't do anything about it, so you just run with it," Gibbs said. Gibbs used late pit strategy and held off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell over the final 20 laps to win the NASCAR Cup Series ...
When runners and walkers begin the News and Sentinel Half Marathon Saturday they will leave the Parkersburg network of streets, roads, and highway after just one mile. For the first time in the race’s history, they will utilize the Parkersburg Ohio River Trail for a four-mile leg of the ...
Ben Jones, who played the good ol' boy mechanic in "The Dukes of Hazzard" TV series and parlayed his fame into a political career and two terms in the U.S. House, has died. He was 84. Jones had a heart attack in his home Sunday in Washington, Virginia, as he was waiting to watch his beloved ...
Tuesday, Aug. 11 High school golf: Williamstown, Parkersburg at Callaway High School Series (Oglebay), 10 a.m.; Gilmer County home match
BOSTON (AP) — Jacob Wilson's father will be very proud. All that work on the Little League fields on up has paid off. Wilson set an MLB record for his position, playing his 111th consecutive errorless game at shortstop for the Athletics and surpassing the Baltimore Orioles' Mike Bordick, ...
The full-blown tank is no longer trending in Major League Baseball. After a handful of infamous team performances in recent seasons — like the Colorado Rockies losing 119 games last season and the Chicago White Sox dropping an MLB-record 121 games in 2024 — the worst teams have been much more competitive. In fact, there's a decent chance that no team will lose 100 games for the first time since 2017. The worst teams are the Rockies (46-72), Los Angles Angels (45-73), Athletics (47-71) and Kansas City Royals (49-70), putting them all within reach of avoiding triple-digit ...
