Jake Merda Adams came to the Butler Eagle in May 2024 as its new sports editor.
A Temple University graduate and native of Northampton, PA, he previously worked as the sports editor of The Carlisle Sentinel, sports planning editor for the Wisconsin State Journal and assistant/interim sports editor for the Louisville Courier Journal. He moved back to the Keystone State in 2023 and now lives in Mars with his fiancée and their dog and cat.
Adams has led award-winning sports coverage at the national and state level and covered PIAA champions, state record-breakers and Big Ten football and basketball.
Outside of the office, he likes to run, do yoga, play the occasional video game, try new restaurants and get back to the City of Brotherly Love whenever he can.
Since the regular season ended, WPIAL and Big 56 released all-star teams in baseball, softball and boys volleyball, and the KSAC did the same in baseball, softball and tr...
Can Freeport’s Mackenzie Magness defend her PIAA pole vault title? And who else will join her on the podium at Shippensburg University this weekend?
Derek Pyda, Jake Merd...
The PIAA Track and Field Championships begin Friday at Shippensburg University, and Butler County teams have a chance to bring home several state medals.
Here’s what you ...
The Pittsburgh Steelers will host Denver in a 3 p.m. Black Friday game this season.
And while that won’t get in the way of the dates of the WPIAL football championships, ...
The NFL is announcing its full 2026 schedule Thursday night, but many of the dates, times and opponents for the Pittsburgh Steelers are already out after more than a week...
We won't make the Jim Mora "Playoffs?!?!" joke this season.
It's a Derek Pyda and Jake Merda Adams episode this week on Eye on Sports, and they're breaking down a couple ...
John Grogan’s retirement as Mt. Lebanon’s athletic director following 25 years was short-lived.
North Catholic announce Grogan’s hire Wednesday morning as its next AD, en...
Spring rains have played havoc on much of the 2026 spring high school sports season.
The WPIAL Individual Track and Field Championships are feeling the bite, as well. The...
It’s been a series of Western Pennsylvania false springs of late, but golf weather is increasing in regularity in the Butler area.
And that means one thing: time to get o...
BUTLER TWP — Michelle Jacobson just missed qualifying for the WPIAL Track and Field Championships last year in the shot put with a season high of 32 feet, 8 ½ inches.
A r...
