The holiday sports season has always been a time for Christmas high school basketball tournaments.Let鈥檚 take a trip back in time to a glorious period in Uniontown High School basketball history when the Red Raiders had a holiday tournament streak that was truly remarkable.Uniontown was a ...
Fayette County has a rich baseball history. The Fayette County League and the Big Ten were bastions of great baseball. Fayette County also had some brief but interesting periods of professional baseball.The Uniontown Coal Barons were in the Pennsylvania鈥揙hio鈥揗aryland League (1906鈥�1907), ...
During her playing days at Uniontown 5-foot-7 Denise DeSimone was a sharpshooter on the basketball court, even though she feels she got a late start playing the game.鈥淚 really started late,鈥� DeSimone said. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 think I started playing basketball until I was about in eighth grade. It ...
On this Memorial Day holiday weekend I thought I would clean out some items from my Memory Lane notebook:1. Pitt continues to ignore Hyatt legacyIt is a mystery why The University of Pittsburgh continues to turn a blind eye to the greatest basketball player in the history of the school. That ...
Bob Grazzini was a classic late bloomer as a basketball player at Belle Vernon High School.Grazzini played junior varsity basketball at Bellmar before the merger of Bellmar and arch-rival Rostraver formed Belle Vernon Area in 1965-66. Grazzini was a mainstay of the first Belle Vernon basketball ...
By his own admission, Norm Mast was a classic late bloomer and overachiever.鈥淚 would probably characterize myself as a late bloomer all throughout my athletic career,鈥� Mast stated. 鈥淧hysically, skill wise, it took me longer than a lot of the other guys on the team to get to the point ...
