缅北禁地

close

Columnists

Cold forecast heats ice-angling fervor

A friend who writes about the outdoors for a newspaper in eastern Pennsylvania coined a phrase I like and have borrowed often. He calls those who trudge onto a frozen lake, bore a hole through the ice, then drop down a line, the 鈥淔rozen Chosen.鈥 He鈥檚 an avid ice-fisherman himself and with ...

The cold is going to be around awhile

Winter weather has settled into Southwestern Pennsylvania and looks like it is going to stick around for awhile as the forecast for the next 10 days calls for below normal temperatures. Normal temperatures are 40 degrees for the high and 19 for the low, and we have been experiencing ...

WVU sloppy in loss to Utah

West Virginia played its bowl game Tuesday, while Penn State gears up for the Fiesta Bowl.Also in this column we take a look both the early signings by both schools as well as those at Pitt.<strong>鈥橢ers sloppy in loss</strong>Playing without star quarterback Will ...

A Christmas Eve tale

With apologies to Clement Moore, my attempt of an updated version of his classic poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," or as the poem is more commonly known, "Twas the Night Before Christmas."'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the National Football League,Officials, in the booth ...

Women’s Royal Rumble is set

A few weeks ago in this column we looked at a women鈥檚 Royal Rumble match.And while I thought it wouldn鈥檛 take place at next month鈥檚 Royal Rumble, it is indeed taking place.This past Monday on Raw, Stephanie McMahon announced that the first-ever women鈥檚 Rumble will take place at the PPV, ...

A pleasant December bike ride

This past Monday and Tuesday, I had occasion to be in Pittsburgh to close up our small townhouse for the winter. Many city people have cabins in the mountains and reside full time in the city. We do the exact opposite; living full time in the mountains and maintaining a small historic town ...