James Franklin and Mike Tomlin have plenty in common for the 2025 football season. Both are winning but highly criticized head coaches who will be feeling the pressure with high expectations locally. Tomlin’s Steelers don’t open up until next week but when it comes to the area’s ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Frank Andrews was 17 and sitting quietly in church when the tears started to fall. "I didn’t know what was going to happen to me," he recalled. "I was a very severe stutterer, and I didn’t know what would become of my life." That moment of uncertainty marked the ...
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Brownsville’s football program has struggled mightily in recent years and hasn’t had much stability at the head coaching position. A year ago, the Falcons’ third as an independent, David Martin III began the season as coach and former coach Von Braddock stepped back in on an interim ...
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When you are a wrestler of Rocco Welsh’s caliber, there really isn’t an offseason. The 2023 graduate of Waynesburg Central High School, who decided on March 29 that he would transfer to Penn State after competing for Ohio State, won the U23 national championship in freestyle at 86 ...
