Weightlifting

High school athletes from across the area are signing on to play at the college level. Here is a running story of athletes who have signed on, and football players that have signed at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech. Blacksburg Geinda...

Five days before the pomp and circumstance of National Signing Day, I watched the nation's fastest high-school football player, Levonte "Kermit" Whitfield, in a much less glamorous endeavor. He was sweating it out at a Jones High track practice....

Although the big news on South Sumter's campus Wednesday was Keanu "Keke' Neal signing with Florida for football this year's group of seniors, one of the best in the program's history, had four other players sign. Joining Neal, who is featured in...

No, but UCI must go Philip Hersh Chicago Tribune Cycling gets to stay in the Olympics on one condition: the International Cycling Union leaders who turned a blind eye to doping (best case) or enabled it (more likely) must go. Ex-UCI President Hein...

People who want to lose weight are better off running than lifting weights -- or even than doing both, researchers at Duke University say. The researchers compared people who did aerobic exercise -- running, swimming, walking, for instance -- with those...

Spruce Creek’s girls weightlifting team got five first-place finishes Wednesday night and captured its 16thconsecutive Five Star Conference championship. The Hawks finished with 54 points, ahead of Orange City University (40) and New Smyrna...

The high school football season may have finally ended with the 2A and 4A PIAA title games on Saturday in Hershey, but the scholastic awards season is just getting started. Six Morning Call area players will be among the 51 players from the eastern half...

Leesburg girls weightlifting coach Joshua Boyer has been watching his team dominate competition in Lake, Sumter and Marion counties for a couple of years now. So on Saturday, he took his Yellow Jackets to the New Port Richey River Ridge tournament to...

Here are the rare moments from South Dakota sports in 2012 from the State Sports Writers Association: Jan. 2: Northern State women’s basketball coach Curt Fredrickson earned career win No. 700 — second most in NCAA DII women’s...

When Hagerty's girls weightlifting team defeated Lake Howell and Lake Brantley in a tri-meet Wednesday afternoon, the performance set a couple of records for the Huskies. The victories gave the Huskies an 8-1 record, making this the most victories in...

If you're going to fall and break something, you should at least have a good story to tell. I have broken nine bones. No, I was not abused. Some stories are better than others. The last bone I broke, the ulna in my left arm, involved a ski jump. Good...

The high school girls weightlifting season is heading into its championship portion of the season with the Five Star Conference Meet being held Wednesday, the Seminole Athletic Conference meet on Jan. 10 and the Super Metro Conference meet on Jan. 16....