View of the Mountain; by Mason Smith
We are approaching the end of the regular season for high school basketball. Teams a starting to turn green in the District 11 power rankings, signifying their playoff berth in their respective class for the district tournament. Pocono Mountain East and West boys continue to stand atop the mountain, with West continuing to lead from…
Read MoreVIDEOS: HS Hoops Midway Point 2025
It always gets here faster than you think, but this week marks the passing of the halfway point of the high school basketball regular season in Pennsylvania. There’s some interesting matchups this week (see our broadcast schedule page here on our website) and, with a few exceptions, it’s mostly divisional opponents facing each other for…
Read MoreView of the Mountain: Early January 2025; by Mason Smith
The new year is officially upon us, along with the start of the second half of basketball season. We have a good sample size of every team, and all six public schools in the Poconos can be divided into three categories on the boys’ side. At the top is Pocono Mountain East and West High…
Read MoreVIDEOS: More HS Highlights of 2024
Things are heating up for high school sports early in 2025! Tuesday on ATVN we’ll have two great boys basketball matchups as Liberty plays Freedom and Allentown Central Catholic plays Whitehall–all four teams have had impressive starts to the year to date! Then on Wednesday, a rematch of one of the biggest wrestling matches in…
Read MoreVIDEOS: 1st Highlights of 2025
First of all, we want to wish a wonderful start to the new year to all our viewers/readers here at The SportsTalk Shop and look forward to another great year of covering local sports in our coverage areas in 2025! We start off our first blog of the New Year with a look at some…
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