Some items -- some of them shocking -- from former Blizzard sports editor's "Scanning the Field" column in the 1940s (Editor's note) --...

CHRIS ROSETTI D9and10 sports.com PITTSBURGH – Redbank Valley football coach Blane Gold ran the Pittsburgh Marathon in under four hours...

(This column appeared in the March 29, 2022, edition of The Derrick and The News-Herald.) When I started at The Derrick back in the...

(Editor's note: This article appeared in the March 22, 2022, edition of The Derrick and The News-Herald.) Friends, colleagues and former...

(This is an edited version of Pat Patterson's obituary submitted by the Barranco Severna Park, Md., Funeral Home and Cremation Care.)...

I was on the phone talking to Oil City basketball coach Bob Lynch before the start of the 1971-72 season. It was my second year on the...

Hard to believe, but it had been 50 years – fifty – since the Oil City boys qualified for interdistricts in the PIAA basketball playoffs....

(This story originally appeared in the Jan. 18, 2022, edition of The Derrick and The News-Herald.) He appeared destined to be one of the...

No matter how many yards you want to give him -- and it ranges from 464-492 -- there is no doubt that Oil City sophomore Ethen Knox...

Apparently some Franklin fans were asking if the eight three-pointers Easton Fulmer made Monday in a 41-point effort against...

ANOTHER UPDATE -- Blane Gold was named Class 1A co-Coach of the Year Dec. 28 by the Pennsylvania Football Writers and three of his...

The only way a high school football team can accomplish what the Franklin Knights did 50 years ago is to win the state championship –...

(This article appeared in the Aug. 20, 2021, editions of The Derrick and The News-Herald.) This is a piece dedicated to Oil City’s...

Oilers hoist Pat Patterson after beating Franklin. (Editor's note -- Pat Patterson died March 18, 2022.) --- One thing about the Oil City...

Update as of Dec. 30: Red Law is over 2,000 career yards rushing -- and still counting. ​ As I said on Dec. 17 in this space, I'm not...

I stand corrected. For years I believed – and told anyone who would listen – that Oil City never won a district championship in boys...

The football seasons for both Oil City and Franklin in 1920 – 100 years ago -- were fairly unspectacular, record-wise. Oil City started...

February marks the 50-year anniversary of two of the three highest scoring individual games in Venango County history, including the...

I wrote a piece that soon will be in The Derrick/The News Herald about Mike Emick and Mark Garbacz and their scoring heroics 50 years ago...

Ted Marchibroda was a football player ahead of his time when he quarterbacked the Franklin Nurserymen from 1946-48. Everybody knows he...