WHEELING — King Football is back! After almost nine months, the sport makes its triumphant return to the Ohio Valley with the 76th installment of the OVAC Rudy Mumley All-Star Football Game. The annual summer spectacle unfolds tonight at Wheeling Island Stadium with kickoff slated for ...
ELM GROVE — For the second night in a row, Wheeling Post 1 never got the big hit it needed and dropped a narrow contest to Parkersburg Post 15 at the I-470 Sports Complex. After Parkersburg sqeaked by Wheeling 4-3 in Thursday’s semifinal, Post 15 claimed the Area 1 tournament with a 2-0 ...
WHEELING — When the 76th OVAC Rudy Mumley All-Star Football game kicks off at Wheeling Island Stadium tonight at 7:15 p.m., it will mark an important anniversary for the game and its namesake. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the so-called ‘Rudy Game’ in which Mumley resurrected the game after a brief hiatus. As the story goes, Mumley mortgaged the house he shared with his sister Lily for $15,500 in order to fully fund the game in 1972. “At that time Sam Mumley, who was (Rudy’s) nephew, was in charge of the OVAC and Rudy had approached them and they said they ...
WHEELING — The Wheeling Central Catholic High School Athletic Hall of Fame is adding a pair of special honorees to climax its 2022 class. The Hall of Fame Committee has chosen two more passionate and dedicated individuals to receive the Maroon Knights’ Distinguished Service Awards — Bob Fitzsimmons and Terry Murphy. This dedicated tandem will join previously announced Hall of Fame inductees David Contraguerro, Ricky Yahn, Clayton Fitzsimmons, Paula Jo Thomas, Rose Palmer, Kimberly Bower and Cristin Williams Roberts. All of the honorees will be feted during the Maroon ...
WHEELING — The year was 1972! Richard Nixon was in the White House, the Dallas Cowboys were Super Bowl Champions and a postage stamp cost six cents. Life was pretty good. For guys like Shadyside grad Larry Falbo and Magnolia grad Rob Rothlisberger, life was really good. They had not only just graduated from high school, but 50 years ago they were preparing to play their final high school football game as part of the Ohio-West Viginia All-Star Game, which is now known as the OVAC Rudy Mumley All-Star Football Game. Falbo and Rothisberger are two of the players who will be on ...
