Behind the Mic: Top Tens
As the year comes to a close, it’s time for my annual thoughts on the Yahoo Year in Review. This is their annual look back at the top sports stories (and other trends if you wish to search Yahoo for those). Comparing the list to last year’s Top-Searched Sports Teams and Top-Searched Athletes, you will…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Football Ends; Telethon Begins
High school and college football have come to a close. It was certainly an exciting season with the highlights easy to recall: the outstanding individual running backs at the high school level – Shane Simpson, Saquon Barkley, Michael McDaniel, Harry Hall and others. The quarterbacks were outstanding – to name a few, Travis Edmond, Doug…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: HS Football Playoffs Recap
It was another interesting high school football playoff season, with plenty of drama, surprises and exciting finishes. Today, we take a look at the bigger schools in the Lehigh Valley and their playoff runs in the district and state tournaments (more comments and opinions of this year’s high school football season, as well as Penn…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: Joe’s Take — Greatest LV Football Players
First of all, a very happy and healthy Thanksgiving Day holiday to all of our faithful “SportsTalk” viewers and blog readers. We’ve gotten some wonderful feedback about the show and our blog the last few months and appreciate all the positive responses. We hope to continue earning your interest and attention as we transition to…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Overlapping Seasons!
There are a couple of weeks every year when the college basketball, college football, and high school football seasons overlap. This past week was particularly challenging because I was doing my first college basketball game on Wednesday, the District XI AAAA football championship on Friday night, the Lafayette-Lehigh two-hour pre-game show on Saturday afternoon, and…
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