Steve Stout

NORTH LEWISBURG – Longtime Triad football coach Payton Printz left recently to become an assistant at Minster, and it seems only appropriate that the school hired a true Cardinal to replace him. Joe Cardinal takes the Cardinals’ reins after a successful assistant-coaching stint in Tennessee, and he said he likes what he has seen of […]

The Urbana High School football team returns almost every starter from last season except one – quarterback Levi Boettcher, who elected to not play football this year so he could focus on basketball. UHS will start 5-foot-11, 200-pound sophomore Preston Shields at quarterback this season as the team seeks to improve upon last year’s 2-8 […]

After leading the Winthrop (S.C.) University women’s basketball team to the NCAA tournament in 2014, things haven’t gone very well for head coach Kevin Cook. Cook, an Urbana University graduate and member of that school’s hall of fame, led Winthrop to only six wins the last two seasons before being suspended on Jan. 25 for […]

While most of today’s football fans probably hadn’t heard of Hall of Famer Yale Lary, his death last week at the age of 86 hit one local family hard. Lary was a nine-time Pro Bowler as a safety and punter for the Detroit Lions from 1952-64, and was a teammate of the late long-time Urbana […]