MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown Blades 12-and-under hockey team took the ice at the Morgantown Ice Arena Saturday morning with a chance to move into first place in their division in the PAHL (Pittsburgh Amerature Hockey League). Taking on first-place Lawrence County (Pa.), the Blades fell ...
BECKLEY — Judah Price's first three years in high school were best summarized as "second best." The Independence senior running back finished as the state runner-up as a freshman and junior in the state wrestling tournament, the state runner-up last year in football and was second on the ...
Ironton (Ohio) boys basketball coach Chris Barnes pointed to Mondrell Dean as the reason the Fighting Tigers lost 68-61 to Hurricane in high school basketball Wednesday night. "We couldn't stop Dean," Barnes said. "He was the difference." High school football teams in West Virginia know ...
BRIDGEPORT — This time a year ago, nobody knew for sure if Bridgeport’s Kamar Summers was going to play football again. He had suffered his second major knee injury, a torn ACL on his right knee, late in the regular season. That injury came on the heels of a torn MCL on his left knee ...
HUNTINGTON — J. R. House is the third base coach with the Cincinnati Reds. The player who won the honor — premier high school quarterback in West Virginia — named for House also will take his talents to southwest Ohio. Huntington High quarterback Gavin Lochow, a University of Dayton ...
When I read that wolves that had a parasite had a much higher chance of becoming the leader of the wolf pack, I was astounded. A parasite affected the behavior of a mammal. How could that happen? I found it all rather interesting, and I think you will, too. There is a microscopic organism that can only reproduce in cats, but it can thrive in most mammals. That parasite is Toxoplasma gondii, and a study of 26 years of wolf data analyzed the blood of 229 wolves and found the disease in some of the wolves. After reviewing all the blood data for 26 years, they ...
