Thursday marked the ninth year that High School Football America released a preseason national high school football ranking. Since our first rankings in 2012, I’ve always said I really don’t like creating a preseason poll. With our algorithm still one…
I know it’s been a while since I penned a First and Fisher, but thanks to Easton (Pennsylvania) football, it’s time to dust-off the column on Good Friday. Earlier this week, the Easton Football Twitter account posted pictures of its…
Today marks the 35th anniversary of National Girls & Women in Sports Day. On today’s Rewind Wednesday we celebrate the day with a 2017 podcast interview with Katie Hnida, who in 2003 made history by becoming the first female to…
Growing-up in eastern Pennsylvania, I always thought that one of the coolest school nicknames was the Galloping Ghosts of Abington High School. Last night, as I was wrapping-up our Friday night coverage, it dawned on me that I should research…
Growing-up in the Lehigh Valley in eastern Pennsylvania, you couldn’t help but root for local racing legend Mario Andretti from Nazareth, especially after he won the Indy 500 in 1969. That win launched Mario to international stardom. For the first…
I wanted to take a few moments to thank everyone who has taken the time to visit High School Football America over the last month. We’ve had three straight record-breaking weeks of unique visitors to our website, plus we’ve set…
With more-and-more newspapers going online, instead being tossed onto the front porch or a home’s lawn, I’ve been wondering what will happen to the athletic scrapbook in the digital age? For those of you too young to know about scrapbooks,…
After weeks of writing mostly coronavirus pandemic high school football stories, I decided that it was time to return to my weekly column called First & Fisher that I began writing when we took High School Football America to Los…
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Lots of fog in Mystic, Connecticut this morning, but it’s warm 48 degrees. Energy levels are high as Trish Hoffman and I get ready to travel about 25-miles north to Norwich for the 148th meeting of Norwich…