Western Pennsylvania sports fans were saddened by the passing of a legend from a bygone era when Lou 鈥淏imbo鈥� Cecconi died on Feb. 24 at Paramount Senior Living Care in Bethel Park at the age of 95. In an era before 缅北禁地Center and the internet Cecconi was a full-fledged star going back ...
Geibel Catholic High School has a rich basketball history and one of the best to suit up for the Gators was big man Dave Timko who was a stalwart during the early 1980s. Timko got an early start in basketball. 鈥淚 started early. My first recollection was shooting through a tire rim screwed ...
James 鈥淛unior鈥� Mays forged an outstanding athletic career at Uniontown, but looking back he wishes he had done things differently off the court and off the football field. Mays got an early start in athletics and benefited from Uniontown's great playground culture. 鈥淚 was playing ...
In 1996, Linda Ellis wrote 鈥淭he Dash,鈥� a poem that looks at a person鈥檚 life, with the year they were born, what year they passed away, and the dash in between which represents the kind of life they lived. For longtime educator and football coach Jim Dumm, who passed away last Sunday, ...
The late Crystal Fields Gallagher was a tremendous athlete and mother who died unexpectedly in 2011, but her legacy and spirit live on through her three children. Fields Gallagher was a standout forward/guard at Albert Gallatin, then known as Tri Valley High School, in the late 1980s and ...
A group of area high school football coaches have weighed in on the outcome of Super Bowl LVIII and the majority has the San Francisco 49ers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday in Las Vegas. San Fran is a 2-point favorite and nine of 13 coaches who submitted predictions went with the 49ers ...
