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Steelers defense glad to have first team back for playoffs

From the notebook of a sportswriter who just watched a miserable Steelers run defense but who doesn’t have to knock it all that much as the team heads into the playoffs:n “Missed tackles, the scheme,” was how Lawrence Timmons explained away the season-high 231 rushing yards put up by the ...

What’s in store for wrestling in 2017?

With 2016 now in the rearview mirror, it is time to look ahead at what will happen in 2017.Or better yet, what could happen.While even Vince McMahon does not know what will fully happen in the WWE in 2017, it is always fun to speculate what will happen in WWE, TNA, and ROH.So letĢƵ take a ...

Deer Lake a community trying to get history back

Deer Lake is unique. The peacefulness of this small mountain lake and community just east of Uniontown is what brought me and my family here 45 years ago from the streets of Pittsburgh. A 77-acre, spring-fed lake full of fish, frogs and the roar of the spring peepers. A family friendly ...

New YearĢƵ Resolve: Put up that wood duck box

Ducks Unlimited magazine suggested it as a waterfowl hunterĢƵ winter project. I viewed it as a New YearĢƵ resolution — to put up a wood duck box.I didn’t even need to build the box. Several years ago, I’d found one in disrepair but basically intact, lying useless and half-buried in ...

Bartolomucci was a football lifer

Don Bartolomucci was a football lifer. As a player football provided him with an education, and later a career in education and coaching.Bartolomucci was a crackerjack running back on some fine Brownsville High School football teams in the 1950s. A four-year starter, he played on teams that ...

Wrestling holiday wish list

It is that time of the year where we look at the holiday wish lists that wrestlers, promotions, and fans send Santa Claus.Considering that I have SantaĢƵ number in my cell, or at least my niece and nephews think that I do, I have been able to get some inside scoop on what others have ...