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 ...
Imagine being a college basketball player and not losing a game during your first season. And the second season. And winning two national championships. That sounds like something that only happened to players from the UCLA dynasty under legendary coach John Wooden. It also could happen to ...
Joe Righetti has been known as many things in his 77 years. He has been called one of the best all-around athletes ever produced by Beth-Center High School and Waynesburg College. He was known as a national champion, All-American and record holder in college. He was a professional football ...
Though Fort Cherry is still playing football, the high school winter sports seasons will begin Friday. If that late-November start date seems a bit early, that’s because it is indeed earlier than normal. For several decades the start of the PIAA’s winter sports seasons was the first Friday ...
At the start of this month, we had 11 local high school football teams competing in postseason play. Now, we're down to just two, and it’s not a surprise as to who they are. Peters Township in Class 5A, and Fort Cherry in Class A, will be playing this week to run it back. Both won WPIAL ...
As the high school football playoffs move into their second weekend, let’s harken back a few years to when the PIAA adopted a six-class system for the sport, expanding from the previous four-class setup. We were told that six classes mean the gap in enrollment, from the largest to smallest, ...
