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A wonderful day for a 5K

I hope everyone had an enjoyable, relaxing Thanksgiving day.I joined around 800 folks or so on a brisk and breezy holiday, and unexpectedly dry, morning, coursing around the streets of Uniontown in the annual Turkey Trot. The race benefits the work of the Salvation Army, but also is a wonderful ...

Well, the NFL has spoken.Myles Garrett will have to pay for a ticket for at least the remainder of the season if the pass-rushing specialist wants to catch a Cleveland Browns game in person.I do my exercising around lunchtime most days and flip channels around when I'm eating lunch before my ...

Pirates turn the table

I feel I should apologize to the Pittsburgh Pirates after I left to enjoy the sun on Sunday afternoon.After the once-not-a-worry bullpen collapsed yet again, turning a 4-4 tie into a 7-4 deficit in the top of the eighth inning, I disgustingly turned off the TV and hopped on my bike.Nothing like ...

Warning: The author of this column is going to sound like "he's a bitter, old man," so be prepared to grouse about his views on basketball and roll your eyes as his nephews and nieces occasionally do.If I was preparing to play a high-flying, stand-25-feet-from-the-rim basketball team in the ...

Athletes anxious for Christmas, too

With apologies to Clement Moore ... ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;Andrew McCutchen rested, content is his warm ...

Cold start to Thanksgiving

Television weather folks, oops, meteorologists, are enamored with the wind chill factor.The temperature dips below 50 degrees and the weatherman/woman rolls out the dreaded wind chill factor.I have my own system of cold classification, which I am going to unveil now.The warmest of the cold ...