Rex Smith

3 weeks ago | wamc.org | Rex Smith

My daughter is the latest in a line of fine tennis players in our family, so we have an annual end-of-summer dad-and-daughter tradition of spending a day at the U.S. Open. The other day we were on the phone together when early bird tickets went on sale, and within minutes we scored great seats.

1 month ago | wamc.org | Rex Smith

American history records some notorious criminals and ne’er-do-wells, but my favorite, who I learned about when I moved out west as a kid, might be a stagecoach robber on the frontier who was known as Black Bart. That wasn’t his real name – he was a dapper Englishman born with the name Charles Boles, who wore a bowler hat while doing stick-ups.

1 month ago | wamc.org | Rex Smith

You know what was fun about being a newspaper editor? Well, from my 30 years leading newsrooms, I might say a lot of things, but today I’m thinking in particular of this: picking the comics. Did you ever think of that? Somebody had to decide whether Dagwood Bumstead and Beetle Bailey would show up in your local newspaper – whether you would follow the travails of Mary Worth and Rex Morgan, M.D. – and that was part of my job.

1 month ago | wamc.org | Rex Smith

When we are young and struggling to figure out who we are, we sometimes try on labels and personas to see what fits. I was 19 years old, I think, when I was upbraided by an older and wiser fellow at my college – he was 21, and a philosophy major, for heaven’s sake, which I considered pretty exotic. He suggested that I was insufficiently radical, which wasn’t something I wanted to hear in those days when student protests were changing the nation, or so we thought.

1 month ago | newsnationnow.com | Rex Smith |Danielle Langenfeld |Jessica Dill |Talia Naquin

Lacrosse is the oldest organized sport in North America. While you can find people playing lacrosse in 62 countries, it has only appeared twice at the Summer Olympic Games. OLMSTED FALLS, Ohio (WJW) - A Bay Village lacrosse player who was seriously hurt during a game has passed away from his injuries, school officials confirmed to families. According to the school district, Dylan Veselic, a 16-year-old sophomore, was hurt Tuesday evening during a game against Olmsted Falls.