Hard as it may be to believe, we’re already halfway through the regular season. Football always seems to fly by, and this year is no exception. Heck, we’re already starting to obsess over the District 3 playoff power points standings, and we still have five games to go.
But before we get into the regular season’s […]

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Hard to believe we’re coming up on the halfway point of the regular season already. Football season always seems to fly by, even when the playoffs extend into late November or early December.
Seems like there’s a good chance of that happening again around here. We’ve already hit the point where the wheat begins to separate […]

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We local scribes have taken some heat in recent years by our steadfast refusal to let go of the old “Manheim Magic” cliche whenever Manheim Central pulls off another one of its famous Houdini acts to win a close game. And I can see the point; the phrase first started showing up in newsprint 20 […]

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After a slow start in the opening week, I bounced my way back to respectability with my performance in Week 2: a 15-4 record, moving me up to 25-11 this season. I think my strategy of actually thinking  about the picks beforehand may have helped me a bit, so we’ll do the same for Week 3.
Lots […]

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Thanks to Clubber Lang for one of my favorite lines from the “Rocky” series.
My predictions were truly painful last week. So bad, in fact, that yours truly is currently looking up at all his sportswriting brethren in the race for the title of “Top Prognosticator.” I went 10-7, while my online colleague Jeff Reinhart is […]

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Yeah, yeah. Monday morning quarterbacks are supposed to spout off on Mondays. Give me a break. I was enjoying my Labor Day weekend. But here are a few tidbits from Friday night’s Week One action: 
So after weeks of “voluntary” preparation, two-a-days, scrimmages and film analysis, the L-L League’s 24 teams finally got to strap on the […]

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Well, Media Day is in the books. Nothing like interviewing 24 coaches in 4 1/2 hours. My head is so full of cliches it’s about to split. But I’ll just try to do this entry one word at a time, because I don’t want to overlook so many quality words and phrases.
Anyway, the last session […]

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Just finished visiting with all eight Section Two coaches as Media Day continues. Looks like your section favorite is (huge shocker) Manheim Central, which brings back a ton of veterans from last year’s squad. That team made a deep run into the District Three Class AAA playoffs — something of a surprise, given the amount […]

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Greetings, and welcome back to The Huddle! Keith Schweigert reporting in from the first of three sessions at the Lancaster-Lebanon League’s Football Media Day, which is being held at Enck’s at Kreider Farms, just south of Manheim.
I’ve just finished a whirlwind tour of the league’s eight Section Three squads, interviewing coaches and sitting in with […]

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By Kevin Freeman 
I wanted to expand a bit on the item that appeared in both the Intelligencer Journal and New Era concerning the meeting of Lancaster-Lebanon League officials Wednesday afternoon.
When voting to accept the league’s realignment for the 2010-11 season, two proposals were put to a vote, one that passed and one that did not.
First, the proposal that passed. Ephrata athletic […]

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