ALBRIGHT: Is Amos the greatest wrestler this state has seen?

March 5, 2020

Three years ago, West Virginia’s most recent and perhaps permanent face of high school wrestling walked onto the mat as a sophomore clad in a Parkersburg South uniform. He was fresh faced, eager and more than prepared. Awaiting him was 220-pound senior Dylan Miller from Wadsworth High School out of Ohio. Each man stood chiseled. They locked hands with scowls adorning their faces on a day two of the top wrestling programs in two states collided at St. Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio. The hype for this match reached higher than any other. Braxton Amos’ ...

ALBRIGHT: Ravenswood’s Annie Hunt painted inspiring comeback picture

February 25, 2020

After spending last season on the bench away from the game she loved healing an ACL tear and heartache, believing Annie Hunt’s plans for 2019 was easy. She’d pulled herself back together after the horrible news. Information causing her mother MOV Hall of Famer Mary Beth Varney Hunt and her both pain after the fateful phone call. Annie also had waited too long. Shedding too many tears along the way and not just after learning the news. She’d done all the right things and experienced all the various pains from her injury. She’d watched herself on tape then worked, and worked ...

ALBRIGHT: Patriots’ Makenna Winans still has all-state first team credentials

February 22, 2020

Makenna Winans was always the key. There’s no getting around this in understating her importance on the hardwood for the Parkersburg South girls team this season. If you wanted to call her one of the most crucial players in the state, it wasn’t an outlandish statement, either. With a ...

ALBRIGHT: Patriots’ Makenna Winans still has all-state first team credentials

February 22, 2020

Makenna Winans was always the key. There’s no getting around this in understating her importance on the hardwood for the Parkersburg South Patriots’ girls team this season. If you wanted to call her one of the most crucial players in the state, it wasn’t an outlandish statement, ...

ALBRIGHT: PHS girls’ hoops most valuable asset? Its bench.

February 14, 2020

There are five big reasons one could point to when asked about the most crucial part of the PHS girls’ basketball team. Each one accompanied by a pair of state championship rings on their ring finger. And while the seniors are indeed valuable, once you look down the bench you start ...

BEVINS: Picking a Super Bowl LIV team to root for

February 1, 2020

As a Washington fan who cheers for the Browns as long as they’re not matched up against my Redskins, it’s been a long time since I’ve had much of a rooting interest on Super Bowl Sunday. I came close this year, since my oldest daughter is a Tennessee Titans fan, by virtue of them having more pink on their uniforms a few years back during October (Breast Cancer Awareness Month) than the aforementioned Browns. But their Cinderella run came to an end in the AFC Championship game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Because of that, neither of my Titans-fan daughters plan to watch ...