Inside the World of Women’s Roller Derby in WheelingKarin Butyn March 13, 2023“This sport is so empowering,” Krystal, more aptly known as Green Eggs and Slam, explains as we discuss the following...
Wheeling and WesBanco Arena To Serve as Host for The Basketball Tournament’s 2023 West Virginia RegionalProvided March 2, 2023The Basketball Tournament (TBT), the 64-team, $1 million winner-take-all event, today announced that Wheeling and WesBanco Arena will serve as...
Wheeling Lightningbirds Inspire All Of Us To Try Something NewLindsay Ammirante November 29, 2022Growing up in Wheeling allows for some pretty special core memories. From your trips through the Oglebay Festival Lights to...
Bowling Meets Golf This Weekend in WheelingKaden Bednarek September 23, 2022What do bowling, golf, and winding country roads have in common? The answer is Irish Road Bowling, and this beloved...
The Secret Lives of Wheeling’s PigeonsKate Wietor January 5, 2022Pigeons. Doves. Rats with wings. All names for Columba livia— our humble city pigeon. Have you seen the flock of...
This Popular Sport is Taking Wheeling by StormRich Wooding January 4, 2022As folks from across the Ohio Valley hit gyms en masse in an effort to kickstart new healthy habits in...
The Era of the Ironmen, Wheeling’s Semi-Pro Football TeamRich Wooding December 29, 2020It was a chance encounter. A Columbus, OH attorney who had just launched a mid-west semi-professional football league came to...
The Inspiration, Wisdom, And Courage Of Ann ThomasSteve Novotney June 3, 2020Editor’s note: This week, Weelunk will pause our normally scheduled programming to highlight stories that feature Black narratives. We have...
Wheeling’s Women Are Slam DunksStacey Miller Sacco May 4, 2020Wheeling loves sports. This is evident by the high participation in every Ohio Valley Athletic Conference event. You know it...
Cracks, Whizzes and Cheers: Eight Decades of American Legion BaseballNick Musgrave July 5, 2019efore the advent of television, Wheeling families found entertainment among the sounds of cracks, whizzes and cheers of the local...
Our South American Odyssey: Day 7Jason Koegler April 8, 2019Day 6 brought practice, Day 7, April 3 2019, was Game Day. It seems all of our efforts in fundraising,...
Our South American Odyssey: Day 6Jason Koegler April 6, 2019We have been in in Cordoba, Argentina now for three days and on Tuesday April 2 2019 we were ready...
Our South American Odyssey: Day 5Jason Koegler April 4, 2019ast you heard from us it was Day 4 and the boys were holding a “sleepover” with their host families....
Our South American Odyssey: Day 1Jason Koegler March 30, 2019t was 5 a.m. on Thursday, March 27, 2019, when 14 boys from the FC Wheeling United U-14 soccer team...
Sports Complex Addition for The HighlandsSteve Novotney November 9, 2017A goal adopted by the Ohio County Commission a decade ago will finally be realized at The Highlands when a...
My Summer of GolfWeelunk Staff September 13, 2017The leadership of Oglebay Park and the Wheeling Park Commission decided to DO SOMETHING this year about the state of...
WOTC Offers Youth and Adult Summer Camps at OglebayDebbie Pickens June 6, 2017Let this be the summer that your family begins the sport of a lifetime! The Wheeling Oglebay Tennis Club wants...
When “Big League” Basketball Came to WheelingChris Rouhier May 25, 2017When “Big League” Basketball Came to Town: The Short-Lived West Virginia Wheels In 2009 and 2010, as a then-junior at...
Cardinals Are Sweet SixteenChris Myers March 12, 2017And it’s on to the Cardinals first NCAA Division II Regional Final! Wheeling Jesuit put together a 24-5 run starting...
Wheeling’s Golden CoreJason Koegler November 10, 2016This isn’t a sports story. It’s not a sentimental story. It’s not a “glory days” story. It’s a story of...
Sauter Returns for Pro Hockey’s 25th AnniversarySteve Novotney October 15, 2016He bawled like a baby when he returned to Wesbanco Arena yesterday, and that’s not exactly how hockey fans in...
Nailers Coaches Prepping Team for Home OpenerSteve Novotney October 11, 2016It may seem like a wait-and-see situation for fans of the Wheeling Nailers, but the team’s coaches have not approached...
CCHS Airs Excitement Over Broadcasting HonorSteve Novotney October 2, 2016“I like broadcasting because it helps me step out of my comfort zone. It also helps me with my speech...
CCHS Homecoming: Beach Day and Sports World Guest SpeakerKaitlyn Carpino September 29, 2016As an alumna of Central Catholic High School, I was thrilled to learn that I would have the opportunity to...
The King and OglebaySteve Novotney September 26, 2016Arnold Palmer Recalled by Oglebay’s Randy Worls He knew it would spoil, but the child didn’t seem to care, so...
Koslik Peddles Her Way to Nation’s CapitalSteve Novotney September 14, 2016It rained. Ok, so it actually poured. A lot. On her. At times, in fact, the rainfall seemed to be...
The Curse, The Crown, And The ClownsJon-Erik Gilot September 11, 2016How The Cleveland Cavaliers Restored My Hope In Humanity…And The Cleveland Browns When a friend asked me this past spring...
“Coach” Sam Andy: 1940 – 2016Steve Novotney August 2, 2016He fought for what he believed in whether he was a coach, a teacher, a member of the Ohio County...
ECHL Hockey Legend’s Cup Is OverflowingSteve Novotney June 9, 2016He admits it. He told a little fib during his very first hockey tryout. Patrick Kelly grew up in a...
Nailers Earn Trip to Cup FinalsWeelunk Staff May 25, 2016For the first time since 1993, Wheeling, W.Va, is going to the ECHL’s Championship Series. On Tuesday night, the Wheeling...
The Toppers Take TexasLeeRoy March 28, 2016The No. 5-ranked West Liberty University men’s basketball team, playing in their fifth Elite Eight in six years, came up...
Central’s Harler A Winner On And Off CourtSteve Novotney February 13, 2016“The average person would lay there. Be different. Be great.” That is what one of two posters taped directly above...
WJU #2, WLU #3Weelunk Staff February 10, 2016Ohio County is becoming NCAA Division II’s Tobacco Road. Wheeling Jesuit University and West Liberty University are not only...
Help Celebrate WJU’s National ChampionshipPhilip Stahl January 17, 2016 Wheeling Jesuit University (WJU) has planned a week’s worth of events for the campus and the community to celebrate...
Donatelli: ‘I’m As Ready as I Ever Will Be’Steve Novotney December 19, 2015He doesn’t know. He didn’t know on Dec. 13, the day after Mike Johnston was fired as the head coach...
Ronell Green – Wheeling’s Boxing ChampSteve Novotney October 7, 2015He stayed calm, and he listened; he followed the game plan; he paced himself; he was patient; he kept his...
Are You Ready For Some (Injury-Free) Football?Justin Kiger August 27, 2015Go ahead. Sing it to yourself. We all hear it in our heads — that familiar Monday Night Football tune....
‘The Sportsical’ – A Dream Come TrueSteve Novotney January 18, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Jakob Bedway enjoys sports – even hockey, despite his father’s objections. “Watching hockey can be tough...
