The NCAA men’s basketball tournament begins in earnest today – I know, there were First Four games played Tuesday and Wednesday, but for most bracket-picking people it tips off this afternoon – and it will do so without a “local” team. Pitt, Penn State, West Virginia, Duquesne and ...
College basketball season is again at its tipping point – the start of the season. The major colleges featured about 100 games Monday night. Many of them were one-sided affairs that played out while fans tried to figure out who is on their favorite team’s roster and what happened to the ...
Being a member of the WPIAL’s football steering committee is a thankless job. Has been for decades. For those people on the committee, putting together the pairings for the playoffs is a no-win situation. There is sure to be frustrated coaches, players and fans, no matter how you seed ...
Dale Lolley, an award-winning reporter who covered the Steelers for the Observer-Reporter for 24 years, and was the newspaper’s outdoors editor for an even longer tenure, died early Wednesday morning of cancer. He was only 56 years old. A native of Fryburg in Clarion County, Lolley joined ...
The season ended for the Wild Things in the Frontier League playoffs and with a loss, just like each of their other 12 trips to the postseason. On the surface, that would mean another maddening postseason for the Wild Things. Or was it? While the celebrating Friday night was in the visiting ...
The Wild Things reached the halfway point in the Frontier League season late Thursday night following a 6-4 loss to the Gateway Grizzlies. And when the bus pulled out of Sauget, Ill. – population 299 – and headed 500 miles south to Pearl, Miss., for a series that began Friday night ...
