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.
It wasn’t exactly hot this week during heat acclimatization, but the sounds of pads, panting and whistles filled the air around Butler County.
Those sounds portend the qu...
Fourteen days remain until the start of the high school football season. Fourteen days until fans get to see the payoff of an offseason of weight room training, playbook ...
No Butler County girls tennis team had a better 2024 season than North Catholic. Really, no school had a better tennis year than the county’s Catholic school, which saw b...
Coaches are not sleeping on Slippery Rock this season.
The PSAC unveiled its preseason coaches poll Thursday, and the conference voted The Rock the No. 1 team in the PSAC...
In two weeks, the games count.
The 2025 PIAA high school football season kicks off Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, across the Commonwealth, and all 11 Butler County area teams wi...
North Catholic’s boys golf team returns several key pieces from last year’s district championship squad, as does a girls team that took home bronze.
Karns City loses one ...
Slippery Rock University’s Athletics Hall of Fame Committee unveiled its class of 2025 last week.
The seven-member class will be inducted during a banquet Sept. 12 at the...
Fresh off an NCAA Division II Tournament semifinal appearance, Slippery Rock University football is set to host five home games this season.
The 2025 campaign begins Sept...
Former Union/A-C Valley track and field star Evelyn Bliss can now call herself a national champion.
The Bucknell University rising junior won the United States Women’s Ja...
Four Butler County clay shooters were part of a Beaver County team that finished second in the USA Clay Target National Championship on July 13.
Wes Scott (Moniteau), Mon...
