08/16/09 Austin Spitler is one of the strongest players on the Ohio State football team -- "hillbilly strong," to hear his teammates tell it. The fifth-year senior linebacker admits that, at least in some ways, the description fits. 08/16/09 Two days after receiving an electric shock serious enough to hospitalize him, Normangee football standout Whitley Reed was scheduled to be released from the hospital Saturday, said his coach, Brian Mullinnix.His older brother, Brian Reed, an Iraq war ... 08/16/09 Before Saturday's Blue Mountain League baseball playoff game against Martins Creek, Hellertown pitcher Nick Bowen told a reporter there would be a fifth game on Sunday, guaranteeing that Hellertown would win to stay alive. 08/16/09 1. Heritage Christian (14-1 last season): In seven short years, coach Ron Qualls built Heritage Christian from a startup program into a state champion. Now the pressure is on to keep the Eagles among the elite. Quarterback Jackson Kirtley put up huge numbers as a junior (3,618 passing yards and 48 touchdowns) and now is working with former Warren Central coach Kevin Wright as offensive ... 08/16/09 Classified employee Eddie Chacon, 33, has spent most of his life either playing or coaching in the Hemet Unified School District. But now Chacon is being told by the district that because he is a classified employee he can't coach for pay, although he will still be a volunteer assistant football coach at Hemet Tahquitz High School. 08/16/09 Oakmont High School senior Tyler Kuresa no doubt has caught the eyes of major league baseball scouts with a busy summer that included an impressive performance in the Area Code Games that concluded Monday in Long Beach. 08/16/09 About 375 acres of grass caught fire near the northwest intersection of Hawkeye Road and FM2450 in Denton County on Saturday. No structures sustained fire damage, but several buildings, including an airplane hangar, were threatened by the flames, said Battalion Chief Ken Gold of the Denton Fire Department. 08/16/09 One of my favorite books to read and re-read is by a former Sports Illustrated writer, Leigh Montville, called "Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero." Although the portrait that Montville paints of Williams as a great but flawed man is vivid and electrifying for a baseball fan such as I, there are an number of smaller descriptions of the people in Williams' life that Montville uses to ... 08/16/09 The following people were booked Friday, Aug. 14 through Sunday, Aug. 16 into the Highlands County Jail: 08/16/09 State police in Jonestown said they issued several citations during a Driving Under the Influence checkpoint on Route 72 and on other state highways in Lebanon County between Saturday night and early Sunday. 08/16/09 The president of Udrea investigation commission, the Liberal Ludovic Orban, turned against himself both PDL and Tourism Ministry which cornered him for criticizing Elena Udrea. Yesterday, PDL Cluj president, Deputy Daniel Buda, asked Orban publicly to resign from office and also from the commission. 08/16/09 While UCF will be getting accustomed to playing without its starting secondary from 2008, the Knights will have the luxury of an experienced defensive line. Possibly the most important piece of that line is senior defensive tackle Torrell Troup (Conyers, Ga.), who could gain national attention as one of the country's best at his position. | 
