Author: Beaver County Radio

Winds of Change in the NFL!!!! The hammer has fallen on big name coaches

The NFL will have a plentiful amount of new head coaches next season as the hammer has dropped and a handful of coaches have already been handed their walking papers. Mostly recently John Fox of the  Chicago Bears being given a New Years day present of a pink slip. The regular season ended yesterday and so did the tenure of coaches such a Jack Del Rio from the Oakland Raiders,  Jim Caldwell from the Detroit Lions,  and what has to be one of the biggest surprises the Indianapolis Colts firing of Chuck Pagano.  Who will be the next to be handed walking papers in the coming days?

Stay tuned to Beaver County radio for more and tune into the sports report every morning during  A.M. Beaver County with Matt Drzik from 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. . You can also hear Matt’s daily sports report on the noon day report with Pat Septak.

Happy New Year

Revelers around the world have welcomed the new year with tight security, prayers, fireworks and a crystal ball. Some Californians rang in 2018 by smoking marijuana, minutes after the state joined the list of places allowing recreational pot. In New York, as the glittering crystal ball dropped in Times Square, a crowd of about one million rang in the new year. Earlier, spectacular fireworks lit up the skies in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

President Trump Holds New Year’s Party

President Donald Trump welcomed in the new year with a lavish party at his private club in South Florida. Joining friends at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump told reporters that he expects the new year to be tremendous and predicted the stock market would continue to gain ground and that companies return to the U-S at a rapid clip.

Beaver County Commissioners Considering Legal Options.

Beaver County Commissioners are considering their legal options after Judges John McBride and Dale Fouse ordered a reassessment of all county property by mid June of 2020. Commissioners met Friday afternoon with solicitor Garen Fedeles and his assistant Nate Morgan but came up with no course of action regarding the court ruling. County property has not been assessed since 1982 and the court order stipulates that the county must have a contract with an outside firm to do the assessment by mid June of this year.

Pot Goes On Sale Today In California

More than six dozen marijuana retailers have been licensed to start selling recreational pot in California today. The start of legal retail marijuana sales comes more than two decades after California paved the way for legal weed by passing the first medical marijuana law in the U-S. Alex Traverso, a spokesman for the state’s bureau of cannabis control, says the agency worked thru the weekend to process as many licenses as possible.

Costa Rican Air Crash Kills 10 Americans

Costa Rican investigators are looking into what caused a charter aircraft to crash in woods in the country’s northwest soon after takeoff, killing 10 U-S citizens and two local crew members. A relative and a rabbi identified five of the dead as a family from a New York City suburb who were in Costa Rica on vacation. The pilot was a cousin of a former Costa Rican president.

Steelers Second Round Playoff game day and time have been set!!!

The Steelers don’t know who their opponent will be in the Divisional Round of the AFC Playoffs, but the team now knows when they will play.

The Steelers will host a home playoff game at Heinz Field on Sunday, January 14 at 1:05 p.m. They will play the highest seeded team remaining after the AFC Wild Card round.

The potential opponents for the Steelers would be Jacksonville, Kansas City or Tennessee. The Steelers beat both Kansas City and Tennessee in the regular season, and lost to Jacksonville.

This is the first time since the 2010 season that the Steelers have hosted a Divisional Round playoff game, when they defeated the Baltimore Ravens, 31-24, en route to Super Bowl XLV.