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WHP Facebook Share Icon Twitter Share Icon Email Share Icon When asked what could be behind a surge of COVID-19 cases in young people, White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci pointed to youth sports as a possible factor. "School sports, particularly team sports, which people engage in close contact without masks. I think that's what is explaining these surges of cases in young individuals." Fauci said. But representatives of Central PA youth sports leagues pushed back, saying they had seen little to no difference. "I wouldn't be able to give you a good answer if its worse, better...

Monday is the deadline by which Gov. Tom Wolf must make a decision about whether to deny or grant local officials the exclusive authority to make decisions about holding school sports and activities and who can attend them. Although the governor has publicly said he would veto the measure identified as House Bill 2787, a bipartisan band of House members gathered in the Ryan Office Building next to the state Capitol on Wednesday for a news conference to urge him to change his mind. “It is truly time to give people their voice back and ensure children have their best...

The story is at first aggravating to hear but the more we learn about it the better the outlook for this country becomes. A pair of high school football players in Morrow, Ohio, ran out on the field before a game holding a Blue Lives Matter and Red Lives Matter flag. They were later suspended over the display, for introducing a political message to the game. It was a sign of pregame social signaling, and as we have come to learn there is a glaring set of double standards on such issues.  For years we have been lectured that Colin...

Pa. police are learning that if you play football, they will come – even amid the coronavirus. This high school pigskin phenomena of attracting crowds far larger than coronavirus-inspired limits allow has law enforcement officials in Allegheny County scratching their heads, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh reports: Over the past weekend, many high school games in western Pa. appeared to exceed the limits on crowd size set down by the Allegheny County Health Department. Parents and fans said it was their right watch -- and they showed up in droves. Now, Allegheny County officials tell KDKA they are considering enforcement options...

Sunbury officials and Shikellamy school leaders are saying they are not concerned with an email from the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association telling them to follow Gov. Tom Wolf’s recommendation of no more than 250 people at outdoor gatherings. The email from PIAA executive director Robert Lombardi was forwarded to Shikellamy board members by Superintendent Jason Bendle on Thursday ahead of a vote to allow 500 fans inside the stadium for the Sept. 18 home opener. Shikellamy school director Jenna Eister-Whitaker said the board read Lombardi’s email prior to Thursday’s vote. They voted 9-0 to allow 500 fans contingent on a...

At its first opportunity, Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff said the chamber will attempt to override Gov. Tom Wolf's planned veto of a bill that would allow schools the choice to hold fall sports and decide how many spectators can attend them. Aug. 20, 2020 Joe Hermitt | jhermitt@pennlive.com By Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com The Pennsylvania House Republican leader vows a veto override vote will happen in the near future if Gov. Tom Wolf carries through with his planned veto of a bill that would give local school officials the exclusive authority to decide whether to allow sports and...

Science. Michigan’s crazed governor/tyrant ordered all high school and college football, soccer and volleyball athletes to wear face masks — even during competition.

After Gov. Tom Wolf recommended schools hold off on sports until 2021, Republican lawmakers characterized the governor’s decision as out of bounds. The governor offered his recommendation on high school sports at the end of a news conference Thursday about efforts to increase testing for the coronavirus. The Wolf administration said Thursday afternoon it is a strong recommendation but not an order or mandate. Local school boards could make the final call on sports, the administration said Thursday afternoon. Last week, the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, the governing body of high school sports, said fall sports could proceed but without...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two teenage boys sued the Minnesota State High School League on Wednesday, alleging it maintains unconstitutional rules that bar boys from joining girls’ competitive high school dance teams. Dmitri Moua and Zachary Greenwald filed a federal lawsuit with help from their parents and the Pacific Legal Foundation, which has worked on similar cases with students in at least two other states. The two 16-year-olds want to try out for their schools’ dance teams in suburban Minneapolis, but the league’s rules prohibit boys from competing on girls’ dance teams, according to the lawsuit. The suit argues the rules...

Minnesotans are currently facing a fast and furious onslaught by the transgender lobby, which seems to be dictating policy to the Minnesota State High School League. The MSHSL decides policy for all extracurricular activities in public, private, religious, and home schools. It’s currently in the process of outlawing all sex distinctions in high-school sports. On December 4, it plans to install an athletic policy granting transgender students the choice to play on either boys’ or girls’ teams. In this scheme, there would be no accounting for sex differences in high school sports on the field or in locker rooms, bathrooms,...

As first reported by the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia (Penn.) Episcopal Academy rowers James Konopka and Nick Mead made the ultimate sacrifice during their Under-17 doubles race at the Head of the Schuykill regatta on Sunday when they abandoned a promising start to help rescue two fellow competitors who had capsized. With temperatures unseasonably cold and Philadelphia (Penn.) St. Joseph's Prep rowers Joe Leonard and Andrew Burrichter struggling with their boat and treading water in the icy river, Konopka and Mead made a snap decision to give up a promising start that could have landed them in the medals to...

LAST MONDAY, Sean Fisher of Waldwick collapsed while running drills. It was reported he may have had an undetected heart condition. Fisher died that day. It was his 13th birthday. On Tuesday, Douglas Morales of Cliffside Park died of injuries sustained during a football practice the previous week. He ruptured a blood vessel to the brain. He was 17 years old. Communities are in mourning, young athletes are unsettled by the untimely deaths of teammates and parents are trying to figure out what happened and how to prevent it from recurring. While each case is different and it’s too early...

A budding teenage athlete has died after 'overdosing' on a common topical muscle cream. The medical examiner announced on Thursday that the 17-year-old track star, Arielle Newman of Castleton Corners, N.Y., died from a toxic dose of sports cream, the Staten Island Advance reported. Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's officer told the Advance that the Notre Dame Academy track star's blood contained lethal amounts of methyl salicylate, the active ingredient found in muscle rubs such as BenGay and Icy Hot. Borakove said the petite girl used the topical medication excessively, allowing the poisons to accumulate in her...

Sep 19, 2005 10:57 am US/Eastern (1010 WINS) (PARSIPPANY, N.J.) A high school football game was postponed this weekend after a parent allegedly threatened a coach for benching his son. Parsippany police have charged 44-year-old Robert Stanel with making terroristic threats toward coach Gerry Moore. Moore benched Stanel's son for arriving five minutes late on Saturday, when the team was scheduled to visit rival West Essex. According to police, Stanel threatened to kill Moore. Stanel denied that, saying he told Moore he would -- quoting here -- ``come looking for him later.'' There was no physical contact between the men....

ROUTS FUEL SCHOOL SPORTS DEBATE By Mike Freeman Lakeshore Public Academy in Hart, Mich., has only 50 students and just a handful of sports teams. Academics, not athletics, are supreme. So it is a complete surprise that Lakeshore has become the subject of a debate on sportsmanship and fair play in high school sports. It began when the Lakeshore girls' basketball team lost to Walkerville High School early this season. Lost badly, in fact, 115-2. The blowout was perhaps the most troubling of what many coaches and educators say has been an increasing number of lopsided games across the country...