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For a 300-pound high school lineman Jven Williams is fast. How fast? Well, last week he went from 0 to 60 in a matter of moments. On Sunday few people outside Wyomissing knew his name; by Saturday the junior two-way tackle…

Reading High has postponed its football game Friday against North County (Md.) and likely will have to cancel its Week 6 game with Gov. Mifflin after the program was suspended following a brush with COVID. Red Knights coach Andre…

The Exeter Black Knights were like a meteor. They burned brightly for a short time, then were gone. Never forgotten, though. A half-century after they dominated their basketball opponents they are still spoken of in legendary…

Listen to Mike Drago and Jeff Reinhart of lancasteronline.com talk about the opening week of play in the Lancaster-Lebanon League on the Mike Drago Sports Podcast: Week 5. This is the 50th anniversary season of football in the L-L.…

Dave Stafford, who impacted generations of local basketball players, has died; he was 69. (Photo courtesy of Reading Berks Basketball Association) Stafford was Reading High's leading scorer as a senior in 1969-70 and went on to…

Eighteen months after the PIAA was forced to shut down its basketball and swimming championships due to a raging pandemic the state's high school governing board is still wrestling with the long tentacles of COVID-19. Last fall, in…

"Play where your feet are." That's the motto that's kept Twin Valley grad A.J. Alexy grounded as he worked his way through the minor leagues, past a shoulder injury and a COVID shutdown, and now in the major leagues where he's made…

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…

The show DeShawn Wilson put on Friday night at Lebanon was nothing new to his Reading High teammates and coaches. "What he did Friday he does every day at practice," said Red Knights coach Andre Doyle after Wilson scored five…

Jerry Kapp grew up in a basketball family; he always imagined he'd play that sport in college. His father, Jerry, was a top player at King's College and played for the Washington Generals (foils for the Harlem Globetrotters). …