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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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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We interrupt The Huddle’s offseason hiatus to bring you some sad news: Scott Feldman has stepped down as head coach at McCaskey. Click here for an updated story with quotes from the coach.
Feldman’s decision is not entirely unexpected. In fact, the only real surprise is that he lasted this long. His frustration level with what […]

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Not much going on as we hit the high school football dead zone between the end of the 2008 season and the start of 2009 spring practice, but I do have one bit of news to report: Nick Schmalhofer, Lancaster Catholic’s star offensive and defensive lineman, has given his verbal committment to the University of […]

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KEITH SCHWEIGERT, Online Sports Editor
By now, the aches and pains are fading, and the numbing cold has left their fingers and toes. Lancaster Catholic’s football team and their fans woke up this morning to the reality that their season — a record-setting, 13-2 ride — came to an end with last night’s 37-14 loss to […]

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KEITH SCHWEIGERT, Online Sports Editor
While I was blogging live from Lancaster Catholic’s 45-7 rout of Wyomissing last Friday in the District 3 Class AA semifinals, some Crusader fans in the audience wondered where quarterback Kyle Smith’s career numbers stack up against the Lancaster-Lebanon League’s elite.
I didn’t have that information at my fingertips then, but after […]

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By KEITH SCHWEIGERT 
Dave Caldwell is a former New Era sports writer who went on to a great career covering college football for the Dallas Morning News and now writes on a free-lance basis for the New York Times. He recently sent me the link to a story he wrote about coming back to his alma […]

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