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Good old summer time

The anticipation is over ... summer is here!Yep, the sun reached its apex in the sky at 12:24 a.m. Wednesday, signaling the time for vacations and all-star seasons for youth baseball.The first day of summer, unfortunately, also means the days will be getting shorter as the season works its way ...

How ’bout those Pens!

The Penguins' retention of the Stanley Cup really shows you can't keep a good man down, or the next man up, either.Even if that man is Sidney Crosby and he has several opposing defensemen and forwards sitting on him, or imprisoning him to the ice with their sticks and any other hockey ...

The perils of baseball in April

I'm holding the Pittsburgh Pirates personally responsible for this current stretch of weather we're enduring.Why them? Well, after an unsuccessful sojourn to Boston to open the MLB season this week, the local Boys of Summer return home this afternoon to open the home portion of the schedule ...

Basketball in March is maddening

So, has college men's basketball made your March maddening yet?If not so interested in college basketball, betcha the emergence of "orange cone season" and the accompanying "Stop/Slow" flip signs have you wondering about your travel bracketology!(A little side note ... Travels into Latrobe for ...

Sure is Steelers’ playoff weather

There's a scene in "The Green Berets" where Captain Nim, played by George Takei, looks skyward to miserable, rainy, monsoon-like conditions and comments, "This sure is Charlie weather," alluding to perfect enemy strike conditions.The same can be said for the Steelers about Sunday's predicted ...

A Christmas cadence

Twas Christmas morn, and all through the landShrieks of joy and laughter echoed, as children said, "Isn't this grand?";The presents were arranged around the tree with great care,waiting for anxious youngsters to go on a tear; Beleaguered, bleary-eyed moms and dads, with coffee cups filled to ...