Gettysburg college gridiron

Higher expectations have filled the air at Gettysburg College at the start of the 2009 campaign — and for good reason.
Based on how the Bullets ended the 2008 season, thoroughly dismantling a Franklin & Marshall team (54-21) despite a hailstorm of weather, one would think the optimism is high.
With starting quarterback Matt [...]

Fall sports launch: News and notes from Monday

Evening Sun assistant sports editor Dan Graybill was at South Western, New Oxford and Hanover yesterday for the beginning of football camp. Below are excerpts from his story, which you can read here.
South Western:
For South Western, it’s the first of many practices over the next two weeks.
The Mustangs have a benefit [...]

Fall sports launch: Delone Catholic football

This afternoon I caught up with Littlestown and Delone Catholic football. What I found at Littlestown was a vocal group ready to make believers out of anybody. And at Delone, I saw steady amounts of speed across the board.
First, Littlestown.
Let’s start off with a recap. The Bolts were the most explosive offensive [...]

Fall sports launch: First day of football practice

Today marks the start of the fall sports calendar. That means if you were anywhere near a high school campus this morning, you probably saw groves of teenagers running around in pads, with sticks and kicking balls to and fro.
I won’t get into girls’ tennis, field hockey, volleyball and boys’ cross country and [...]

Sunday entertainment

Before I post a video that ran two weeks ago on ESPN’s news magazine show, E:60, I want to give you some recent news out of the Baltimore Ravens camp. Wide receiver Marcus Smith, who was competing to earn the No. 4 slot on the team, injured his right ACL during the Ravens first preseason [...]

Column Excerpt: Writer takes race on first hand

Below is an excerpt from Cory Mull’s Sunday column. He ran the Adventure Race of the Hanover YMCA last Saturday and detailed his account. Make sure to pick up a copy of today’s edition.
Twenty miles into the most exhausting race of my life, I began to wonder “Is this really worth it?”
The realization [...]

South Western sophomore interns at Ravens training camp

Soon-to-be South Western High sophomore Jacob Dube has been afforded an opportunity that many his age can only dream of doing.
Certainly, it helps that his dad is the Director of Video Operations with the Baltimore Ravens.
But that’s the world — connections are the pathways to opportunities.
Lucky for Dube, because he’s been working [...]

YAIAA Football: Training Camp

As the beginning of the high school football season nears on Monday, you won’t hear many complaints.
It’s that time of the season.
Not only are the kids excited about the game. You can sense a certain optimism in area coaches as well, many who are hoping to rebound off lackluster 2008 seasons. [...]

Tim Hibbs transitions to York

There was a whirlwind of controversy surrounding the hiring of former Biglerville coach Tim Hibbs when York High decided to tab him as the new head football coach in June.
Mainly: Can he transition from country boys to city boys successfully?
But those same questions seem to be tempering, at least in Hibbs eyes, as [...]

NFL Preseason: Ravens-Redskins

We’re officially entering the start of the fourth quarter, where the game seems to be heading into a twilight of nobody’s and nothings-is-happening-situations. Because that’s the case, I’ll try to go over some of the positive points of tonight’s preseason game against the Washington Redskins.
Positive:
* Joe Flacco. 9-for-15. 103 yards. Zero touchdowns or [...]