Ray Melnikoff's highlights Muncy High School 1,442 views 0:56 Video: Ray Melnikoff highlightsWatch the Lackawanna Trail running back plow over tacklers in 2019.In the winter of 2019, MaxPreps reached out to high school coaches nationwide to find 100 of the most under-recruited players in the country. The response was well received. With Class of 2021 players unable to attend showcases or spring football due to COVID-19 restrictions, we decided to move up this year's survey. The response was enormous. In less than a week, more than 500 surveys were returned, highlighting why these players, almost all with little or no college attention, would help any FBS, FCS, Division II or Division III program. We have broken the responses into regions, starting today with the Northeast, which includes high school players from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Here are Class of 2021 players whose coaches think … [Read more...] about Northeast high school coaches select most overlooked 2021 football recruits
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It’s looking bleak for Van de Beek as Fernandes keeps Manchester United on trophy track
The eye-catching selection of Van de Beek ahead of Fernandes for this FA Cup clash of giants at Old Trafford was all about "rotation", according to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. United's manager clearly felt his team could combat a faltering Liverpool team without their star man, albeit leaving him on the bench in case of emergency. "Donny needs to be playing games as well and it's a big game for Donny to come into," Solskjaer told the BBC. Van de Beek has not started a Premier League game since he was hauled off with United trailing at half-time at West Ham in early December, and he might not be starting any soon either given how this game transpired. A 66th-minute switch of the Portuguese for the underwhelming Van de Beek proved pivotal, and the delightful free-kick from Fernandes that settled an absorbing game 3-2 in United's favour was one that had been conceived on Saturday. "I think he stayed about 45 minutes after training yesterday shooting free-kicks, so I was quite … [Read more...] about It’s looking bleak for Van de Beek as Fernandes keeps Manchester United on trophy track
Remembering a Forgotten Protest: Vince Matthews, Wayne Collett and the 1972 Munich Olympics
They are the lost souls of protest, nearly five decades on from an act that was both misunderstood and reviled in its own time and largely forgotten or ignored since, even as it becomes more historically relevant by the day. They were two young Black American athletes – Vince Matthews from New York City and Wayne Collett from Los Angeles, more alike than the distance between their homes, yet different in ways that had defined their pasts, and would shape their futures. They were both fast, both strong. And fearless. Most of all, fearless. They ran the 400 meters, after all, and the track and field event they call the quarter (-mile) is not for the meek. The race of their lives was the 1972 Olympic 400 meter final in Munich, Germany ( West Germany, at the time). At 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7, eight runners pushed away from starting blocks and staggered halfway around the first turn of the rust-colored, all-weather track. Matthews was in lane two, wearing high white socks; … [Read more...] about Remembering a Forgotten Protest: Vince Matthews, Wayne Collett and the 1972 Munich Olympics