Over the past two basketball seasons the Uniontown Red Raiders have faced the formidable Lincoln Park Leopards three times in the PIAA and WPIAL playoffs. Last season the Raiders were downed by the Leopards in the PIAA tournament, 85-64, on their way to a Class 4A state championship. This ...
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 SportsCenter 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 ...
