ByDave bates Contributing writer Let’s be honest from the get go. This is nothing more than a personal shopping list of items I’d choose to receive for Christmas if I were to go shopping for myself. That being said, if anyone can get a copy of this into my wife’s hands before Christmas ...
At 60 years of age, the anticipation of the first day of deer season still gets me. I have a number of friends and acquaintances that have given up or find reasons not to hunt anymore. The reasons are plentiful: “We don’t eat deer meat.” “Not enough people in the woods to move ...
Last year the South Fayette girls basketball team might have shocked some people when it took down four-time defending champion Archbishop Wood in the PIAA Class 5A title game. The Lions won’t be sneaking up on anybody this year. With what they’re returning, they seem as primed as any ...
By John Sacco For the Observer-Reporter newsroom@observer-reporter.com Pittsburgh has celebrated plenty of big wins and had more than its share of painful losses. These are the 10 most-aganozing defeats That the Pittsburgh sports scene has been suffering for a while now is a frustrating ...
By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter I’m not going to pretend. This fall has been the toughest on record for which to give thanks … at least at the start. I completely missed out on an 18-day bird hunt of a lifetime to Wisconsin this autumn. Having just retired, I had made ...
By John Sacco For the Observer-Reporter Pivnick and Pintar cleared way to greatness at W&J Tom Durbin, the former offensive line coach at Washington & Jefferson, once told Todd Pivnick and Kevin Pintar they were going to make him famous. The two – a left guard and tackle ...
