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 ...
Before I get to my thoughts on Super Bowl LVIII, here’s what the next generations of Downey prognosticators think. Great-nephew Collin Downey, a middle-school student in the Hempfield Area School District, simply stated, “Kansas City Chiefs, 31-17.” Nephew Brian Lohr hit the prediction ...
The McLee family is a storied name in Fayette County athletics. Darrin McLee is another member of the clan who made his mark on the hardwood for the Uniontown Red Raiders. “I started playing sports at an early age,” McLee reported. “I went to Lafayette Junior High School and I'm from ...
It has been 40 years since West Virginia center Georgeann Wells broke the barrier and became the first woman to dunk a basketball in a college game. On Dec. 21, 1984, Wells went on to make history. Playing at Elkins Randolph County Armory against the University of Charleston (W.Va.), with ...
Upon further review … Apparently, Beth Swink is the fifth individual with ties to Connellsville to be inducted into the WPIAL Hall of Fame. I must’ve had a fan’s perceived accuracy of NFL officiating these days when searching the list. (More on this later). As I scanned the ...
On Jan. 19,1974 a seismic event occurred in college basketball when a Pittsburgh kid, Dwight Clay, hit a corner jump shot to end UCLA's 88 game winning streak. Clay, born and raised in the Hill District in the early 1970s, was a star basketball player at Fifth Avenue High School (now ...
