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Mike Drago

Mike Drago has written about sports at every level for parts of six decades, most notably at the Reading Eagle for the past 38 years. Mike has written a virtual history of Berks high school football and in 2013 was inducted into the Berks County Football Coaches Hall of Fame.

Unbeaten Saints out in front of the pack as Berks Conference play set to open

Dec 13, 2023

2023 Berks basketball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Berks Catholic has served notice in the opening weeks of the basketball season that it’s as good as ever and a top contender for its…

Saints squash previously unbeaten Braves

Dec 13, 2023

2023 Berks basketball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Berks Catholic carved up another top opponent Tuesday night, knocking off previously unbeaten Octorara 80-47 on the Braves’ home…

Penn State recruit Caleb Brewer was a ‘such a damned bull’ on Wyomissing’s front lines

Dec 12, 2023

2023 Berks football coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Caleb Brewer ended his junior season with a torn MCL in his left knee and a broken bone in his right wrist. The Wyomissing lineman…

Buzzer-beater sends Reading High to first road victory

Dec 11, 2023

2023 Berks basketball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Losses build character. So do last-second wins on the road. The latter, of course, are a whole lot more fun, especially for a young…

Muhls’ emerging Alex Collado is Weeber/Langdon Team of Merrill Lynch Player of the Week

Dec 11, 2023

Matt Flowers saw flashes of what Alex Collado could do last season and throughout the summer. Now the Muhlenberg coach is seeing that ability on a nightly basis. “If you watched the body of work he did all summer long, and…

Wyomissing’s Ryker Jones: ‘You know he’s out there coming for you’

Dec 11, 2023

Ryker Jones was 6 years old when Wyomissing won a state football championship in 2012. He was in awe of the Spartans’ best player, linebacker Alex Anzalone, so much so that he was reluctant to approach him after that historic win…

The best of the best of the Lancaster-Lebanon League: The Big 37

Dec 10, 2023

A 37-team league produces a lot of outstanding football players, and the Lancaster-Lebanon League has done that in abundance since 13 teams from Berks County joined two dozen others from Lancaster, Lebanon, and Chester counties for…

With Madyx Gruber on the ball, Bulldogs have a real shot

Dec 9, 2023

2023 Berks basketball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union (Corrected to show that Madyx Gruber is a junior.) When Easton switched to a zone defense early in the second quarter Saturday…

Despite big deficit, Eagles never stopped fighting in season-opening loss

Dec 9, 2023

2023 Berks basketball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union It certainly wasn’t easy for Exeter basketball coach Jeff VanGorder to watch his team give up 91 points his first night on the job. …

Season-opener a coronation for Berks Catholic sophomore Kingston McKoy

Dec 9, 2023

2023 Berks basketball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union For most of the past four seasons Josiah “Jay-Jay” Jordan pretty much controlled the action on the floor for Berks Catholic. He was as…

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