Thunder Bay’s Ben Piper regrets the time he’s had to spend away from his three-year-old daughter, but he’s hoping the occasional out-of-town training will eventually pay off with a new job close to home.

Allison Gibson finished her second year as Idaho State head soccer coach last year. In her first season with the Bengals, Gibson led ISU to both a Big Sky Conference regular season title and a tournament championship. Her past experience as an athlete at Sonoma State and professional in Japan for three years has brought talent to the ISU team.

The following area students graduated from Penn State University in December. Honors are indicated as follows: ***with highest distinction; **with high distinction; *with distinction.

Researchers have discovered a brief 10-minute massage helps reduce inflammation in muscle. As a non-drug therapy, massage holds the potential to help not just bone-weary athletes but those with inflammation-related chronic conditions, such as arthritis or muscular dystrophy. While massage is well accepted as a therapy for relieving muscle tension and pain, the researchers delved deeper to find ...