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Ben’s ‘second life’ a perfect example

OK, it鈥檚 soul-baring time, but before you turn away I鈥檓 going to titillate you with the plot: It includes violence.So, I put this TV guy against the wall 鈥 gently, mind you. Well, not really gently, but I grabbed him by the lapels because he told me not to walk away from him after he got ...

Steelers defense glad to have first team back for playoffs

From the notebook of a sportswriter who just watched a miserable Steelers run defense but who doesn鈥檛 have to knock it all that much as the team heads into the playoffs:n 鈥淢issed tackles, the scheme,鈥 was how Lawrence Timmons explained away the season-high 231 rushing yards put up by the ...

What’s in store for wrestling in 2017?

With 2016 now in the rearview mirror, it is time to look ahead at what will happen in 2017.Or better yet, what could happen.While even Vince McMahon does not know what will fully happen in the WWE in 2017, it is always fun to speculate what will happen in WWE, TNA, and ROH.So let鈥檚 take a ...

Deer Lake a community trying to get history back

Deer Lake is unique. The peacefulness of this small mountain lake and community just east of Uniontown is what brought me and my family here 45 years ago from the streets of Pittsburgh. A 77-acre, spring-fed lake full of fish, frogs and the roar of the spring peepers. A family friendly ...

New Year鈥檚 Resolve: Put up that wood duck box

Ducks Unlimited magazine suggested it as a waterfowl hunter鈥檚 winter project. I viewed it as a New Year鈥檚 resolution 鈥 to put up a wood duck box.I didn鈥檛 even need to build the box. Several years ago, I鈥檇 found one in disrepair but basically intact, lying useless and half-buried in ...

Bartolomucci was a football lifer

Don Bartolomucci was a football lifer. As a player football provided him with an education, and later a career in education and coaching.Bartolomucci was a crackerjack running back on some fine Brownsville High School football teams in the 1950s. A four-year starter, he played on teams that ...