Curt Conrad

MANSFIELD — The opportunity to play in the Big Ten was just too good to pass up for Mansfield Senior’s Angelo Grose. The ultra-athletic rising senior cornerback verbally committed to Michigan State early Sunday afternoon, just hours after returning from his official visit to MSU’s East Lansing campus over the weekend. Grose is the ninth […]

SHELBY — For Shelby quarterback McGwire Albert, adjusting to a new head coach has been a lot easier than, say, a two-mile run. Albert and his Shelby teammates took part in the 179th Herc Challenge earlier this week at Arlin Field. The Whippets and first-year coach Robert Mahaney used the event, which included a two-mile […]

MANSFIELD — The way Mansfield Senior football coach Chioke Bradley and Shelby’s Robert Mahaney see it, any competition is good competition. Both Bradley and Mahaney watched from the super-heated turf at Arlin Field on a steamy Wednesday afternoon as the Tygers and Whippets took part in the second 179th Herc Challenge, presented by the Ohio […]

MANSFIELD — North central Ohio’s four biggest high schools will all compete in the same computer points region during the upcoming football season. The Ohio High School Athletic Association recently released its divisional breakdowns and regional alignments for the 2019-20 school year and while no ground-shaking developments were unveiled, there were a couple of changes […]

LEXINGTON — Jared Schaefer and Caden Flynn didn’t practice the play during the week, but it wasn’t completely without precedent. The Clear Fork teammates hooked up on a 59 yard scoring strike late in the first quarter as the South all-stars raced out to an insurmountable first-half lead and cruised to a 46-32 win over […]