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Royal Rumble one of biggest nights of the year in WWE

One of the biggest nights of the year in WWE, the 33rd Royal Rumble, took place Sunday night.The event, which was over in time for this edition, emanated from Chase Field, the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, in Phoenix and between 25,000-30,000 tickets were sold with the configuration and ...

Feeding winter birds — big birds — a treat

Readers who feed birds know how the antics of small but energetic creatures can cheer a winter day. The comings and goings of chickadees, titmice, blue jays, nuthatches and woodpeckers offer welcome diversion. Male cardinals are especially striking. Their vivid red, posed against the winter ...

Strong winds and a full moon make for great shelling

The same arctic air mass that brought zero temperatures to Southwestern Pennsylvania earlier this past week also was responsible for temperatures into the mid-forties all the way down the coast of Southwest Florida. Along with the cool temperatures, the strong cold front brought 25 to 40 mph ...

Steelers’ needs at LB won’t be easy to find

From the notebook of a sportswriter who can’t think of a worse call that decided a bigger game than the pass interference call not made in New Orleans:n But then someone on Twitter called it the worst since “Ben was gifted a TD in the Super Bowl.”n Sigh. That third-down play at the ...

LH’s Knoyer happy with season so far

Logan Knoyer, a junior on the West Virginia Wesleyan menĢƵ swimming team, is happy with how his season is going and is excited with what lays ahead.“I am very happy with how the season has gone so far and I believe that I am doing better up through this point in the season as compared to ...

Easy to blame Big Ben … but that doesn’t make it right

It was Week 13 of the 2017 season and the Steelers were cruising along with a 9-2 record. They had won three of those games by three points, and were about to win another by the same margin that Monday night. But they also lost Ryan Shazier, the heart and soul and best player on their defense, ...