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Prep Talk Live tonight from Canisius at St. Joe's; keep us updated with #preptalkscores

2012-01-27T18:35:00-05:00

Last week, the PrepTalkTV team was all over Western New York. Tonight, our focus is on one game, as it should be. We'll have a live blog going below from the terrific 7 p.m. matchup of top-ranked large school Canisius at No. 3 St. Joe's. Tweets to the hashtag #preptalkscores will automatically show up there. So if you are out at one of tonight's many other good matchups, and you're updating that game via Twitter, be sure to include that hashtag. I'll have periodic tweets updating the game at @KeithMcSheaBN, but most of my updating will come in the live...

Clinics for WNY football coaches kick off Feb. 6

2012-01-27T18:04:30-05:00

Monday Night Football continues for Western New York's football coaches with the offering of weekly clinics free to members of the WNY Football Coaches Association. Meeting are held at the Elks Lodge in Lancaster, 33 Legion Parkway at 7:30 p.m. Membership dues are $25 per coach or $90 for an entire staff. Cost is $10 per clinic for non-members. The first meeting is the day after the Super Bowl, Feb. 6, featuring UB football coach Jeff Quinn Chuck Huber has put together an impressive lineup that includes: Feb. 6: Jeff Quinn, Head Coach University at Buffalo, "The UB Run game."...

Live chat (Jan. 25): Video start (with no cough button), Canisius-St. Joe's, marveling at the logic, commentary as sharp as Ben Drake's suits

2012-01-25T15:15:00-05:00

Tonight at 9, we'll get our weekly live chat started with a video segment with myself and PrepTalkTV partner Lauren Mariacher. As always, anything in the world of high school sports -- or our coverage of it -- is up for discussion. That includes a ton this week: Tuesday's St. Mary's win, today's Archbishop Walsh-at-Canisius game (which I'll check out before the chat), Friday's Canisius at St. Joe's game, today's Prep Talk column, the basketball polls, how The News voted in them, my Power 10 and whatever else comes up. I promise I'll get to your question or comment in...

More on St. Mary's huge win at Bishop Timon-St. Jude (with video interviews & highlights)

2012-01-25T11:47:19-05:00

St. Mary's recorded a huge win Tuesday night with a 73-71 victory at Bishop Timon-St. Jude. I updated the game via Twitter, posted the box score and details on our scoreboard and the writeup and a photo led our High School Extra in today's paper. Here's more, starting with video interviews with the victorious Lancers (classy job by St. Mary's coach Dan Gill starting his postgame comments by lauding longtime Timon coach/athletic director Jim Palano, who will be retiring at year's end): I walked in at halftime and immediately saw that St. Mary's was ready to play in South Buffalo....

How The News voted: Canisius No. 1, St. Joe's No. 3, see you on Friday

2012-01-24T07:06:00-05:00

Every week during the basketball season a panel of voters participates in The News' large and small school boys basketball polls. And every week we let you know, like the title says ... how The News voted. Here is a link to previous ballots: last week -- Jan. 17 (MLK edition), Jan. 10 (back from the break), Dec. 20, Dec. 13 (the tipoff). Here are this week's polls, and here's our ballot: LARGE SCHOOLS 1. Canisius (9-4) [last ballot: 1] -- I'm sticking with these guys, Friday night guests of the guys who beat Aquinas. 2. Niagara Falls (9-3) [2]...

PrepTalkTV interview: St. Francis RB Akeel Lynch on picking Penn State

2012-01-23T19:49:50-05:00

Photographer/videographer Mark Mulville & I headed to Athol Springs this afternoon to talk to St. Francis standout senior running back Akeel Lynch about committing to Penn State: More to come in Tuesday's paper and we'll certainly discuss Lynch's choice during Wednesday evening's live video chat. ---Keith McShea (@KeithMcSheaBN on Twitter) buffalonews.com/highschools facebook.com/preptalkblog twitter.com/bufnewspreptalk

St. Francis RB Akeel Lynch commits to Penn State (with tons of links & video)

2012-01-23T10:46:34-05:00

St. Francis standout running back Akeel Lynch has verbally committed to Penn State. He did so via his Twitter page late Sunday night: "Making my dreams become a reality. #weare #pennstate". Lynch, a 6-foot, 204-pound native of Toronto, originally verbally committed to Boston College last July 15 (our story is here; watch our video interview with him that day about his decision on the blog). At the time, he said he selected BC over Penn State. That was long before the news broke -- in November -- of the child sex abuse charges against former Penn State assistant Jerry Sandusky....

PrepTalkTV (Jan. 20): 500th win for Pine Valley's Nobles; wins by Cheektowaga, Ken West and Tonawanda among our six stops

2012-01-21T02:43:48-05:00

It was a busy night in the gyms and a busy night for PrepTalkTV: Highlights and interviews from six games, discussion of even more and a look ahead to next week: Check out our 2012 basketball debut -- a big win for Williamsville East (Jan. 17). Our weekly football episodes from the fall are available here, while you can watch additional videos at Prep Talk Live. More sports and seasons are documented in PrepTalkTV episodes are on our video page -- click "PrepTalkTV" there for the archive. ---Keith McShea (@KeithMcSheaBN on Twitter) buffalonews.com/highschools facebook.com/preptalkblog twitter.com/bufnewspreptalk

Busy night: Prep Talk Live, #preptalkscores, PrepTalkTV

2012-01-20T15:53:28-05:00

The PrepTalkTV team is heading out to several locations during a busy Friday night of basketball. We're doing another experiment tonight as we run around to different games. We're setting up a Prep Talk Live blog below, like we had during football season. Tweets to the hashtag #preptalkscores will automatically show up there. So if you are out at a game and on Twitter, be sure to include that hashtag. That's what I'll be doing (@KeithMcSheaBN on the tweeter) as I bop around to different games. At certain stops I'm hoping there will be enough time to open my laptop...

Live chat (Jan. 18): Video start, Prep Talk 101, big wins for Honors boys & O'Hara girls, apples & oranges and a great close by Andrew Webster

2012-01-18T14:43:29-05:00

The video chat is back. Tonight at 9, we'll get our weekly live chat started with a video segment with myself and PrepTalkTV partner Lauren Mariacher. As always, anything in the world of high school sports -- or our coverage of it -- is up for discussion. That includes this week's basketball polls and Prep Talk's Power 10 rankings. I promise I'll get to your question or comment in the chat -- but please be patient. It can get busy fielding all of the questions and I can only answer one at a time. And PLEASE don't enter your question/comment...