TWO-A-DAYS: Even with QB Ortega gone, Coatesville is still loaded and ready to roll
You can underestimate the 2020 Coatesville football squad, but take note: you do so at your own peril. Yes, for the first time in...
Hartzell, fast start fuel Pennridge in win over CB West
DOYLESTOWN >> Shane Hartzell waited more than a year to strap the pads on again, so he wasn’t going to waste it. The Pennridge...
Archdiocese cancels fall sports for Philadelphia Catholic League, plus Bishop Shanahan, Pope John Paul II
The Philadelphia Archdiocese’s Monday decision to cancel all fall sports for this season reverberates far beyond the Philadelphia Catholic League. Two other members of...
Inter-Ac League pushes back start of fall sports at least three weeks
With every school district and private school in the state apparently on its own when it comes to playing sports in the coronavirus era,...
MOORE: My job depends on high school sports, and I still don’t think they should be played
In a public, four-plus hour Zoom meeting this week, the school board and superintendent in my home district discussed many important issues. One stuck...
Chester County football coaches take one step at a time in summer of uncertainty
With the PIAA still planning — as of this story’s publication, at least — to start the 2020 football season as scheduled, Chester County...
Pennridge’s Hartzell commits to Villanova
The wait for a campus visit turned out to be well worth it for Shane Hartzell. A rising senior at Pennridge, Hartzell only needed...
IN HIS OWN WORDS: Coatesville legend Derrick Morgan on why investing in places like his hometown can change the future
When the bus doors opened every morning outside Coatesville High School, I knew that each one looked different. I just didn’t fully process what...
RACE TO THE TOP: Football coaches proud to make social issues, like racial inequality, a part of their locker rooms
A high school football locker room is often a portal where young men are transformed into grown men. Athletes emerge, driven to prove themselves...
On front lines of fight against coronavirus, Betsy St. Clair is making her family proud, even from a distance
Betsy St. Clair has made the daily commute from West Chester to Philadelphia, and back, for more than three decades. But amidst a sea...