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Sports & Outdoors

Top-100 pick Blankenhorn right at home with Twins

Minnesota Twins third-round pick Travis Blankenhorn seems to be settling in just fine with the Elizabethton Twins after ... Read more

July 28, 2015

Sports & Outdoors

7 assistants to back Coach Jarrett at Happy Valley

Jason Jarrett is entering his first season as the head football coach at Happy Valley, but he will ... Read more

July 24, 2015

Sports & Outdoors

Happy Valley hires Peters to coach softball

An Elizabethton graduate will take the helm of the Happy Valley softball program, as Bonnie Peters was announced ... Read more

July 23, 2015

Sports & Outdoors

14 Appy League Standouts MLB All-Stars

By Collin Brooks Correspondent Collin.Brooks@Elizabethton.com A rare off-day swept through the Appalachian League on Tuesday as the Major ... Read more

July 15, 2015

Sports & Outdoors

Construction on indoor softball facility underway at Elizabethton High School

Even though it’s summer, there are plenty of things going up on the Elizabethton High School campus. The ... Read more

July 9, 2015

Sports & Outdoors

WBEJ announcer Dale Fair recalls terrific 1970s Cyclones season

Dale Fair is entering his 34th season calling Elizabethton Cyclones football games on the radio with John Holtsclaw ... Read more

July 2, 2015

Sports & Outdoors

Dereck Rodriguez poised to follow in dad’s footsteps

This whole pitching thing seems to be coming along just fine for Elizabethton Twins right-hander Dereck Rodriguez. After ... Read more

July 1, 2015

Sports & Outdoors

Forbes was Hampton’s ‘gutsy linebacker’ in ’56

As the anchor of John Pansock’s Hampton defense during the Bulldogs’ first Watauga Valley Conference Football Championship team ... Read more

June 29, 2015

Sports & Outdoors

‘Mr. Deadlift’ Peoples set records, invented weightlifting equipment

New Carter County Sports Hall of Fame inductee Bob Peoples was a world-renowned weightlifter, but he wasn’t into ... Read more

June 25, 2015

Elizabethton Twins

Twins’ draft picks played together before

With the Elizabethton Twins starting their season last night, there was no time to sit around and watch ... Read more