You’ve read our stories on Dispatch.com and followed our posts on social media. Now, you can listen to our new podcast, The Columbus Dispatch High School Sports Report.
Each week for the remainder of the high school football season, we’ll talk for about 15 minutes, discussing the latest news, the games we covered the previous week and the contests we’ll cover Friday night. Other sports will be included as news warrants, and we’ll have additional episodes throughout the winter and spring sports seasons.
You can listen and subscribe here. Be on the lookout for new episodes every Wednesday during football season, all the way until the state finals.
The Dispatch high school sports team consists of reporters Frank DiRenna and Dave Purpura and editor Andy Resnik. DiRenna has been covering Columbus-area high school sports since 2003. Purpura has been on the central Ohio beat since 2000, other than a short detour in Houston. Resnik has been a reporter and editor in Columbus since 1998.
Listen to our podcast and read our coverage for the inside scoop!
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