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 ...
Former Uniontown High School basketball star Don Yates is scheduled to be inducted into the 2023 Legends Class of the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Hall of Fame on Feb. 3 at a brunch at Chartiers Country Club. The class also includes: Dan Bonner, Avonworth High School and University of ...
Brownsville High School has had a very good history of developing girls basketball standouts. One of the very best is Cara Davis Teslovich who got an early start in athletics. 鈥淚 started like a lot of kids with youth T-ball and soccer,鈥� Davis Teslovich stated. 鈥淚 really didn't truly ...
A disclaimer 鈥� this exquisite prose was written a couple days before Christmas, so as you are reading this column Saturday morning, I am obviously unaware of the outcome of the Bengals-Steelers holiday clash. Though, I have a great headline should the backup to the backup quarterback lead ...
Back in the day having two 1,000-yard rushers on a high school football team was a bit of a rarity. It has become more commonplace today. In 1984 the Brownsville Falcons on their way to an unbeaten regular season were blessed with two 1,000-yard backs in Carl Gaddis and Mike Grashion. It ...
The Fayette County Sports community was deeply saddened recently with the news that Fayette County Sports Hall of Famer Ted Nypaver passed away on Nov. 22 at the age of 88. A former South Union High School standout, Nypaver had a storied career as an athlete and a coach. He was profiled in ...
