INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Penn State football was all but leveled Monday by an NCAA ruling that wiped away 14 years of coach Joe Paterno’s victories and imposed a mountain of fines and penalties, crippling a program whose pedophile assistant coach spent uncounted years molesting children, sometimes on university property. The sanctions by the governing body [...]
There will be youth football in London following two large donations to the London Area Boys Football League (LABFL).
By LUKE MEREDITH The Big Ten and Pac-12 have scrapped plans to schedule games against each other in all sports, with Pac-12 officials saying there were too many complications with football schedules to pull it off. The leagues announced Friday that they’ve suspended the scheduling plan that both agreed to in December, well before a [...]
By NANCY ARMOUR For decades Penn State was considered special, immune from the corruption of college athletics by virtue of Joe Paterno’s high ideals, long list of victories and even longer list of graduates. Now, to many people outside Penn State and even some insiders, that’s been exposed as an illusion. A blistering report [...]
By MARK SCOLFORO PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing Sandusky to prey on other youngsters, according to a scathing internal report issued Thursday on the scandal. “Our most saddening and [...]
Officiating classes for high school football will be start August. The classes will be held at London Community Center. After completion of the course you will be licensed by the Ohio High School Athletic Association and eligible to begin officiate football this season. For more information, call (740) 852-3062.
By Gregg Rettig Managing Editor Fire investigators believe an arson fire burned the storage facility for the London Area Boys Football League on Monday night. Keith Smith, president of the league, said at least an estimated amount of $30,000 worth of equipment was lost in the blaze. The league is scheduled to open play in [...]
AP Sports Writer Kurt Voigt spent more than a year getting to know Arkansas State receiver Allen Muse Jr. Like Muse, Voigt lost his father to suicide.
