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.
Some teams are starting to separate themselves in the early going.
Butler, Knoch, Karns City and Freeport all improved to 2-0 last week, and Seneca Valley sits at 1-0. B...
One of the centerpieces of Freeport girls soccer’s first WPIAL Class 2A championship roster has found a college home.
Junior Cecelia Schlegel will join the Iowa women’s s...
Butler County teams largely stayed close to home last week and even made visits to one another.
This week? Not so much. Nine teams are on tap tonight, with the majori...
Yeah, yeah, yeah ... it's football season or whatever. But today is Brendan Howe's last show, and we're ... sending him out in style?
He's off to Yinzer pastures and refl...
After spending Week 1 playing close to home, Butler County teams are hitting the road.
Most of them, anyway.
We’ve got our first Thursday game of the year when Seneca Va...
Here at last.
The 2026 PIAA football season is here at last. Eleven Butler County teams kick off tonight at 7 p.m., and the Butler Eagle will have you covered all night w...
Everyone starts 0-0, including the Butler Eagle sports staff.
The PIAA football season is a day away, and eight county-area games are on the docket. Fans get a rare treat...
It’s a loaded group.
Eight Butler County first-team all-stars from the 2025 PIAA cross country season are back. There are state and district medalists, seniors all the wa...
The defending Butler County Girls Runner of the Year and a trio of Butler runners are back.
And that’s not all. Nine all-county first-team selections make up this year’s ...
We are ready for some football.
The countdown has already begun for that and all the rest of the fall sports, and the Butler Eagle is gearing up for the 2026 PIAA season ...
