Everything you need to know about Ohio high school football in the Columbus area
Dear Subscriber,
The high school football season is right around the corner, with most schools opening on Friday, and The Dispatch has you covered with all the preview material needed for kickoff.
Our Dispatch and ThisWeek News staffs are again teaming up to provide in-depth coverage of Greater Columbus schools, and this past week we got things underway with Bailey Johnson’s series of top 10 players at each position.
On Friday, we unveiled our preseason “Super 7,” with traditional powerhouse Pickerington Central taking the top spot for the seventh consecutive season. We also took a deep dive into the top recruits in the area as well as a feature looking into whether emerging programs can maintain winning traditions.
Want to know about your league only? We have conference-by-conference predictions, and in the coming days will discuss those in depth.
All of this leads off to kickoff and our wall-to-wall coverage of a busy schedule.
Enjoy the season, and thank you for being a loyal subscriber.
Brian White
Sports editor
Other stories not to miss:
Breaking crime news reporter Cole Behrens wrote about the Columbus ties of the gunman in the break-in attempt at the Cincinnati FBI office. Ricky Shiffer, 42, was armed with an AR-15 rifle and a nail gun when he attempted to enter the FBI office. He fled the scene and led police on a chase that ended with officers fatally shooting him in a standoff in a cornfield in Clinton County. He allegedly had extremist ties and was at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to news reports.
After 42 years, one of the area's most infamous unsolved cases appears to be solved, with Upper Arlington police saying they've identified a suspect in the death of 8-year-old Asenath Dukat. Breaking news and crime reporter Bethany Bruner broke the story after discovering that Upper Arlington police had posted an update on their website, saying DNA technology advancements helped them identify Brent Strutner as the suspect in the case.
President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS Act into law Tuesday morning in a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, paving the way for the buildout of the Intel's New Albany site. The law provides $52.7 billion in aid to the semiconductor industry along with other incentives and has the potential of making it one of the world's biggest semiconductor manufacturing operations.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Preparing for Ohio high school football in the Columbus area
