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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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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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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 By KEVIN FREEMAN, Sports Staff
You know that Bob Locker and the rest of Warwick’s football team would like to win a section championship. But minutes after Friday night’s 16-15 victory over Reading, Locker reminded his team of another goal.
The District Three playoffs.
 The season is one game past the midway point and the postseason is front […]

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Keith Schweigert checking in…it seems silly to start worrying about the district playoffs when we’re only halfway through the regular season, but for those who are interested, here are the District 3 power point standings, which are used to determine the playoff fields:

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Warriors’ football coach chats about playing Ephrata for the George Male Trophy
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com

It is called the George Male Trophy.
And it is awarded annually to the winner of the L-L League football game pitting backyard rivals Ephrata and Warwick.
Warwick has won the annual backyard scrap the last two years in a row – and the […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
blogs.lancasteronline.com/jeffreyreinhart
Here are my L-L League Section 1 football preview capsules, with teams listed in predicted order of finish:

WILSON BULLDOGS
COACH: Doug Dahms (3rd season; 20-6 overall).
PIAA CLASSIFICATION: Quad-A.
THE SCHEDULE: Governor Mifflin, Manheim Central, @ Downingtown East, McCaskey, @ Cedar Crest, Hempfield, @ Reading, Manheim Township, @ Penn Manor, @ Warwick.
REINHART SAYS: Where to begin? […]

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