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.
Butler County Soccer Association is turning 50 years old this year.
The youth program celebrated its golden year with a festival-style event Saturday, May 30, with socce...
Slippery Rock University athletic director Roberta Page said in December it would be around the spring when the university would name a men’s wrestling head coach, an...
The Butler Golden Tornado are expected to join the ranks of the growing WPIAL flag football scene.
The Butler Area School District board unanimously approved a proposal d...
Clare Kotwica’s sacrifice fly got North Catholic on the board, but the Trojanettes could not scratch over another run and fell 2-1 in Monday’s PIAA Class 4A softball tour...
"They look like a droid from Star Wars."
We go off the rails almost immediately, from pistachio chocolate to rainbow vacuum cleaners, cutting the grass and, well ... you ...
The PIAA tournaments start this week, and two champions from Butler County are hoping to extend their seasons another few days.
Here’s what to know about Monday’s first-r...
The PIAA tournaments start this week, and one of the big surprises out of the WPIAL, North Catholic (15-6), is the last Butler County team still dancing
Here’s what to kn...
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...
The PIAA baseball tournament begins Monday, with Butler County teams Butler and Moniteau in the mix.
See the full PIAA brackets below. Results and upcoming matchups will ...
The PIAA softball tournament begins Monday, with Butler County’s North Catholic making the field.
See the full PIAA brackets below. Results and upcoming matchups will be ...
