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Looking back on the best, worst Super Bowls

It’s Super Bowl Sunday and I will have the best seat in the house.In my living room.With a big-screen television and lots of munchies and beverages.Having covered 30 Super Bowls – 12 behind the total of John Clayton of ESPN – I can recall the good old days, when no such thing as radio row ...

In 1967, Art Richardson, a world history teacher at Trinity High School, approached athletic director Milton Decker with the wild idea of starting a boys soccer team.“He thought it was a good idea, Richardson recalled. “He got us a field, a budget and I was the coaching staff.”The first ...

Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the high school wrestling hotbed was Washington and Greene counties, fans could count on complete coverage in the newspaper and on radio and television.Television?That’s right. Many matches could be seen on TV. The station was Channel 3, a cable ...

John “Buzz” Walters is one of many highly successful wrestling coaches from the area. Very few collected the number of wins – 300 overall, including 284 at West Greene – Walters accumulated as a head coach.Walters is a 1952 graduate of Mapletown High School, where he was a two-year ...

Sammy Angott is the only world boxing champion that Washington County has produced.A Washington native, Angott won the world lightweight (135 pounds) title for the first time in 1940 and had a 16-year career in the ring that included 94 wins. During his career, Angott’s family remained in ...

The Running Man: Don Zenner

I’ve been to the halls of fame for pro football, baseball and basketball, and all three are impressive venues. They are filled with interesting history, trophies, plaques, medals and busts of those fortunate enough to be enshrined.There is a spot in downtown Washington that reminds me of ...