GREENFIELD – The Brent Eaton era at McClain High School has begun; but if you are looking for the new Tigers boys basketball coach to talk about himself, you will be hard pressed, as he doesn’t want this season to be about him – or anyone else. He just wants the upcoming MHS season to be about his players.

 Where is the safest place to be during a tornado in Cincinnati?
 Give up?
 Paul Brown Stadium, because there is never a touchdown there.

 Well it looks like the days of the Bengals, not the Bungals, being the punch line of every NFL joke are over, as those jokes are now used for the Ohio team up north.

The McClain Tiger football program recently held their football awards program, honoring the 2009 football team.

The McClain Tiger football program recently held their football awards program, honoring the 2009 football team.

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There was a certain amount of controversy concerning the select-ion of the All-SCOL football team at the end of the 1963 season. It seems that these honorary all-star teams are always arbitrary and nearly always, in some way, controversial. All the coaches wanted to get as many honors for their players as they possibly could. Former Hillsboro sports writer Don Edwards questioned Wilmington’s getting nine players on the offensive and defensive All-SCOL teams, when Hillsboro got none. “If Wilmington had all the good players and Hillsboro had none, how did the Indians beat Wilmington on their home field?” he wondered.

If you like competitive, fair, but tough competition, Week 10 of the NFL season is the thing to watch this weekend.

Local high school girl soccer players play in 2009 SE District Coaches Association  All-Star game, at Rio Grande.

The Southern State Lady Patriots tipped off their 2009-10 season with a home win against Miami University Middletown 69-66 at the Patriot Center last Friday, in Hillsboro.

Former Fairfield High School standout and current Bluffton University sophomore volleyball player Courtney Zimmerman is apart of the current Bluffton team that has reached the Division III NCAA Regional Tournament with wins this past weekend.

The 2009 Paint Valley Lady 'Cats Classic will be held on Friday, Nov. 27 and Saturday, Nov. 28 at Paint Valley High School with 24 teams playing in the event.

Bill Damron took the reins of the McClain football program in the fall of 1963, as  51 boys reported for the opening practice. Overall, the team would be slightly bigger than the 1962 team, but team speed was still mediocre at best. Dale Allen, Jim Legg, Fred Raike, George Barnes and Sam Borst would serve as Damron’s assistant coaches.

The lights have gone out for the year on Friday nights in Highland County, and this sports editor is saddened by that fact of life.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has announced that among the special honors it will present at the upcoming annual NCAA National Convention will be the “Inspiration Award” to the 2007 Bluffton University baseball team. This is one of the NCAA’s top awards. It is given when there is a worthy recipient (not necessarily every year), and is considered for the NCAA as a whole (Division I through Division III.)  Normally this is an individual award, but this is the first time it will be awarded to an entire team, including the team members who died.

The game was dominated by Southern State sophomore and Hillsboro graduate Tirrell Cumberland who opened the 2009-10 Patriots season with a 45 point effort, but it was Wright-Patterson Air Force Base who gained the win, defeating SSCC 116-99 Monday evening at the Patriot Center, in Hillsboro.