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Negative Tweets, KISS, T-shirt ‘help’ Pens

Hockey players can be a very superstitious bunch, from playoff beards to when to and not to touch a conference trophy to goalies talking to goal posts.Their fans can be just as obsessed as to what causes good luck and bad luck.Of course, it's all in people's heads. We all know nothing like that ...

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 ...

Memory Lane: Leon Pettit

Baseball in Western Pennsylvania has a rich history. While doing some research recently I uncovered another baseball gem from the past: Leon Arthur Petitt.Born in Waynesburg, PA on June 23, 1902, Pettit took a long winding road to the Major Leagues. He toiled eight years in the minor ...

Slight bump in Raw’s rating a move in the right direction

On Monday, RawĢƵ rating bumped up to an average of 2.98 million viewers as compared to 2.61 last week.While it isn’t a huge number, the 2.98 is a move in the right direction for WWE.A little more than a week ago, reputable wrestling journalist Dave Scherer posted a piece online at ...

Weather pattern changes moving summer in, finally

Like the song says, “Times they are a changing,” and so it is with the weather in our area.The past week was a continuation of the wet, cool and cloudy weather that visited us for a good portion of the month of May. A large upper-level low-pressure system stalled out over the Mid-Atlantic ...

Geibel Catholic grad Lonigro still working in baseball

Baseball has always been a part of Greg LonigroĢƵ life, so much so that it became his lifeĢƵ work.Lonigro was a three-sport athlete at Geibel Catholic High School in the 1980s where he played baseball and basketball and was on the golf team.“My senior year was the first year they had ...