Author: Wes Blankenship

• This high school hired a 19-year-old to coach its track and field team

  Cincinnati’s Woodward High School hired Eric Richards to coach its track and field team when he was just 19 years old. Holy crow. I’m not sure if I should be impressed or offended. Talk about an over-achiever in the game of life. What is this guy trying to prove? You literally have an entire life…

  Wes Blankenship

  May 2, 2023

• Coffeetown radio voice talks stadium fall, near-death experience

  Only an act of God can make legendary Coffeetown radio voice Max ‘The Axe’ Bell hold his tongue. The Copperheads’ athletic program pays its announcer to share his thoughts with fire, passion and vinegar after all. His wages are hardly life-changing. But the job recently changed Bell’s life forever. “It ain’t much in the bank,”…

  Wes Blankenship

  April 30, 2023

• Derrius Brooks was a Harris County blur – true story

  Derrius Brooks was a Harris Country blur. That’s not just me saying it, either. Just ask the people who watched him run. He did it regularly under the halogen lamps and stars about half an hour away from Columbus, Ga. and a kick return away from the Georgia-Alabama line. Yes, Brooks could probably run to…

  Wes Blankenship

  April 28, 2023

• Coffeetown HOF: HS baseball player saves UPS driver’s life

  Walker Brietz proved himself to be a Coffeetown Hall-of-Famer with his rock-solid performance during a ‘save’ situation. And the East Mecklenburg High School senior utility player wasn’t even holding a baseball when he did it. Brietz lives with epilepsy. He knows what a seizure looks like. So when he saw a UPS driver in an…

  Wes Blankenship

  April 23, 2023

• Powderpuff ‘Meat our Goals’ Fundraiser Game ends in barbecue brawl

  Coffeetown High School’s Annual Powderpuff ‘Meat our Goals’ Fundraiser Game Sponsored by Frank’s Fish Farm ended in an unhinged barbecue beatdown. And a legendary girls’ basketball standout started the whole thing.

  Wes Blankenship

  April 21, 2023

• Arizona high school baseball player tried to play with broken back

  

  Nathan Dierker and his grandfather survived a violent car crash in February. Before the calendar turned over to April, Dierker was ready to inflict his own pain on baseballs in the batter’s box. Only one problem kept the Tempe, Arizona ballplayer from game action: Doctors told Dierker to cool it, as he still had a…

  Wes Blankenship

  April 21, 2023

• Coffeetown baseball team overcomes ump, hornets in opener

  

  Coffeetown baseball took the sting out of a horrific showing from umpire Sparky Hemingway to win its first game of the season over Bolt HS.

  Wes Blankenship

  April 21, 2023

• Coffeetown HS celebrates the launch of ‘GoCoffeetown.com’

  

  Welcome to Coffeetown, y’all.

  Wes Blankenship

  April 21, 2023