Photo courtesy of clevelandbrowns.com BEREA — A nice ending could lead to a nice beginning for Ironton’s Reid Carrico. The media covering the Browns’ preseason camp have reported that second-year player Dillon Gabriel has been the most consistent quarterback through the first four days. However, rookie linebacker Reid Carrico intercepted a pass just inside the end zone to end practice on Saturday. The two-time first team All-Ohio linebacker who played at Ohio State and West V

COAL GROVE — Reinhold Messner is considered one of the greatest mountain climbers of all-time. And while Austen Pleasants has never climbed anything like Mount Everest, he’s well aware of what it takes to climb a mountain. A mountain of a man at 6-foot-7, 330-pounds, the 27-year-old Pleasants has fought his way up the NFL playing mountain with eight different stops during his six years in the league. After being an All-Ohio lineman for the Coal Grove Hornets, Pleasants signed

Chesapeake Panthers senior pole vaulter Corey Davis signed a national letter-of-intent with the Louisville Cardinals track and field program. Attending the signing ceremony were, left to right, mother Amanda Davis, Corey, and father Scott Davis. CHESAPEAKE — When he was in elementary school, Corey Davis was told to stay away from the pole vault. It was too dangerous. But Corey Davis was the beneficiary of a gene pool that gave him characteristics of his late, great grandfathe