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Next week, when basketball teams across the Commonwealth clinch a trip to the state championship game fans will inevitably throw Hershey Kisses into the air. It's become a rite of passage, a way to celebrate a trip to Hershey, where…

For the great teams, the ones with big ambitions -- state title ambitions -- the Berks Conference Tournament is just a warm-up race. A prelim. When you're Reading High with Lonnie Walker IV, Berks Catholic with Donovon Jack or…

When Reading High visits Muhlenberg Tuesday night there'll be a lot more going on than just basketball. It'll be Rick vs. Matt, the first meeting as head coaches between Reading High's Rick Perez and Muhlenberg's Matt Flowers. …

Wyomissing rarely pulls off an upset in football. The Spartans have been so good for so long they're usually favored to win. That wasn't the case this week when the school went before the PIAA Board of Directors to appeal a…

It's hard to imagine a person, industry or institution in America that hasn't been negatively affected by COVID. We're closing in on one million deaths in the United States; close to 60 million have been infected by the virus. …

Commercial fisherman know when they cast their large nets for tuna they're bound to pull up a few dolphins in the process. It's unavoidable. The same goes for the PIAA's Competition Formula, which bumps a school's football team…

For years Tony Zonca considered Reading High's 1982-83 team his personal favorite among the 50 or so Red Knights basketball teams he has watched. The team included Pat Tulley, Charlie Chisholm and Rodney Hodge; it was coached by…

I haven't been to every high school football stadium in the nation so I can't say for sure but Wyomissing's A-Field has to be one of the nicest venues in the country. It's an idyllic setting, tucked away in a quaint neighborhood,…

We thought we were past this, didn't we? As the numbers dwindled, and the state eased back on restrictions, it appeared as though this COVID nightmare was in the rear view mirror. As we headed into summer, and toward the…

I had no idea who Charlie Fisher was until a few months ago, when I was covering Conrad Weiser is a District 3 basketball playoff game. Fisher was coaching Manheim Central, which was at a considerable size disadvantage but able to…