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An impressive performance

As the Heisman Trophy winner and consensus favorite as top pick of the NFL Draft, nobody would predict Fernando Mendoza to fall to the bottom of the first round. But if the reigning Super Bowl champs somehow nabbed him with the 32nd pick, he’d immediately be handed a Seattle Seahawks jersey ...

Picks-burgh palooza

PITTSBURGH – Arizona resident Dave Kruper remembers rooting for the Dallas Cowboys when he was a kid growing up in the 1970s and 1980s. Kruper was born in Brownsville, and lived there until his parents moved to Phoenix when he was 3 years old. "We moved to Arizona in the '60s and the ...

Football fever!

Our intrepid reporter Karen Mansfield was up before dawn to make the trek into Pittsburgh to talk to fans gathering for the first day of the 2026 NFL Draft. She arrived early to capture some photos before the thousands descend upon the North Shore in advance of tonight's festivities, which ...

NFL Draft’s impact on wider region appears uncertain

Although business and municipal leaders across western Pennsylvania are betting on a surge of revenue from the upcoming 2026 NFL Draft, which is projected to bring over half a million visitors to the region, reality may not live up to expectations. According to officials from regions ...

After Mendoza, QB draft board could go quiet fast

Don't expect a run of quarterbacks to go off the board in the first round of this year's NFL draft like what happened in 2021 and 2024. There figures to be a long gap between Fernando Mendoza's coronation as the expected No. 1 pick by the Las Vegas Raiders and when the second quarterback on ...

Sewing up a place in history

An estimated 500,000 to 700,000 people will turn out for the NFL Draft events this week. And most, if not all, of them will encounter a piece of Greene County. Waynesburg company Embroid’em was tasked with providing 14,000 pieces of apparel — including screen-printed T-shirts, jackets, ...