Some had begun to doubt the deal would get done, but the Steelers remained steadfast that they would get star linebacker T.J. Watt signed before the start of the season.
We who are elderly have a hard time keeping the visiting great grandchildren busy as we are limited in what we can and cannot do.
Not many collegiate and professional football players have experienced what Joseph Righetti did in a relative short period of time.
The Steelers opened training camp with questions on their offensive line. Some of those have been answered. Others, not so much.
I was out in a deep snowfall in winter hunting with my late wife, Eileen. The snow had fallen all night and was deep and heavy, making walking a struggle.
Old Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone but when she got there the cupboard was bare because there was a pandemic?
A week-by-week trip through the most interesting games of the local high school football season.
Once Darrell Harding was loose and in open space, he became one of the most dangerous and prolific running backs in Washington County and Pennsylvania history.
A year after the daily worries of COVID-19 virus protocols, social distancing, masks, pods, fear over contact tracing, possible stoppages in play and even forfeits, there was a sense of normalcy in high school football camps this summer.
The Steelers are still keeping their new offense under coordinator Matt Canada under wraps and will do so throughout the preseason.
I’ve always thought of September as the prelude to things to come.
When the Steelers say they go into every season intent on winning the Super Bowl, some people roll their eyes.
I was thinking about the importance of binoculars today. I am used to people borrowing my binoculars by now, so I didn’t even comment when Jim said let me use your binoculars to scan that cave above us on that hillside.
It was one preseason game, and the offense was very vanilla in terms of presnap movement and all of the bells and whistles, but the Steelers seem to be picking up new offensive coordinator Matt Canada’s offense.
The fruits in the trees are starting to ripen, attracting many animals. Squirrels, deer and rabbits are all out there eating away. It’s as nature planned. Where there is food, the animals will magically appear.
Could 2021 bring the two-point conversion back into vogue in Pittsburgh?
Its early but already I am starting to see large numbers of deer.
You have to hand it to Pirates general manager Ben Cherington. He’s determined to make Pittsburgh a contender.
In the summer of 1999, Ashley Josay Zullo, a top-notch softball player at Monessen, was involved in an automobile accident, suffering head, knee, and other injuries. Today, she's full of life as vice president of Thiel College.
In today’s world of 24-hour sports channels and social media handy on every cell phone, people around the globe can be instantly bombarded with video and stories about anything in baseball, whether it’s Shohei Ohtani’s latest home run or the Pittsburgh Pirates scoring three runs on a hit tha…
Bralin Jackson hit a single through the right side to score Andrew Sohn for what turned out to be the game-winning run in Washington’s 7-6 win over the New Jersey Jackles in Frontier League action.
After hunting, reloading and such for 60 years, you get a feel for what works and what sells. Some people’s differences of opinion are based on fact while others are based on hype.
In a small way, McDonald native Marty Schottenheimer will be going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday, Aug. 7.
His competitive fire and desire pushed Justin Schrader to give baseball one more try – pitch one more season.
George Block writes a weekly outdoors column for the Observer-Reporter.
The NCAA has been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. And it still can’t get things right.
Eileen and I waved as we passed our farmer friend, who had told us to go ahead, up his hill to hunt groundhogs. He told us he was taking care of a problem with a groundhog in his melon patch. This fellow has been such a good friend and we had been to his beautiful farm many times, so this wa…
AUGUSTA, N.J. – John Jones hit a tiebreaking two-run single to cap a four-run sixth inning as the Sussex County Miners defeated the Wild Things 4-2 Wednesday night.
Keep this in mind and you will not be surprised: Baseball’s amateur draft is not an exact science. Never has been. Never will be.
Journey Thompson has been a force for the Peters Township High School girls basketball team ever since she entered the ninth grade.
David DeCastro’s release on Thursday came as a surprise – sort of.
It’s a beautiful day in summer and I’m sitting here just daydreaming about the last hunt I took with my good friend Monte Hunnel of Jefferson and my son-in-law Mike. It was late fall two years ago when Mike, Monte and I arrived at Macon County Outfitters in northern Missouri.
It began a few weeks later than originally planned, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and with plenty of concern and trepidation.
The past week’s weather was an improvement on the prior week’s hail, rain and muggy heat. I say just about anything would be an improvement. I have been busy with friends, out sitting in fields, sighting in groundhogs and shooting at the club, in between bouts of storms.
The NFL is pretty much done fooling around when it comes to COVID-19.
STATE COLLEGE – At one point, West Greene High School’s softball team considered a 4-win season a success.
Not in her wildest imagination did Dawnelle Mock think she would be one of the driving forces at The Meadows racetrack and in the harness racing industry.
Now that OTAs have wrapped up, we’re beginning to get an idea what the offense will be for the Steelers in 2021.
Thursday was a sad day for the Pittsburgh sports world.
My daughter likes to tell the story of the time she came home from work went downstairs to her big upright freezer to get a pack of something for dinner. She opened the fridge and there was a large garbage bag in there. Now this bag was pretty big, and she didn’t remember putting it there, s…
She has been a long-time fan of the popular old sitcom Golden Girls. Takes one to know one – or four.
The Steelers began their OTAs in earnest last week, with more than two-third of their roster showing up for the voluntary workouts.
With the summerlike weather heading our way, who can’t start to think about groundhog season. The farmers are all out planting fields and the young groundhogs born this spring are starting to emerge from their burrows. Soon it will be time to become the sniper. I suspect I am not the only fa…
Mention the word barn to a farmer, and he will tell you it’s a wonderful place to store bales of hay, keep your tools organized and provide a place to park your tractor.
So, Tim Tebow is now officially part of the Jaguars’ offseason roster, trying out with Jacksonville as a tight end.
It was a beautiful early May spring morning. The light was just coming up in the woods. Eileen and I were hunting turkey up on top of a hill in our camo gear. I was perking at the edge of the field and Eileen had her shotgun, which we had painted with camo colors the night before.
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