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Arm injuries hindered Fairchance-Georges’ Voithofer

Arm injuries for pitchers go with the territory in baseball and many a promising career has been derailed because of them. Case in point is former Fairchance-Georges standout Matt Voithofer.A three sport athlete for the Runners, Voithofer excelled at baseball and also played basketball and ...

Summer of ’88 a season of extremes

After lots of rain and flash flooding across Southwestern Pennsylvania recently, weather patterns have changed and Mother Nature treated us to some September-like weather this past week. The cool mornings of the past few days reminded me of a similar pattern that happened in 1988.In that year, ...

Rushing the season: Time to buy hunting license

We’ve not quite reached the Fourth of July, so something about the timing seems amiss, but itĢƵ time to think about purchasing hunting licenses. Then again, the days are getting shorter now (My wife hates when I say that).Still, thereĢƵ no real urgency about buying a license unless you ...

Cena returns to Smackdown Live

John Cena returns to Smackdown Live, Tuesday night, and it will be his first WWE appearance since he wrestled at WrestleMania.Look for Cena to announce that he is a free agent and will appear on both Raw and Smackdown moving forward.Could this lead to a Cena match against Roman Reigns at ...

Memory Lane: Connellsville’s Mike Tremba

Mike Tremba is another in a long list of great baseball talent that was produced in the city of Connellsville.Tremba was an outstanding infielder/pitcher at Connellsville High School in the mid 1970ĢƵ. He was part of two section championship teams in 1975 and 1976. The 1975 team finished with ...

‘GLOW’ debuts on Netflix

Netflix debuted a new show titled “GLOW” — Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling — on Friday.The show, which I have not had time to watch yet, goes back to its early days even before its pilot episode which was filmed in December, 1985, and the promotion began running shows in 1986.GLOW ran in ...