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Two stand out in wide open NCAA field

A lot of prognosticators are talking about what a wide open field this yearĢƵ NCAA menĢƵ basketball tournament has, how there are so many different teams that could make a run through the brackets. ItĢƵ true, this year may be a bit like 2023 when the unlikely trio of Miami, San Diego ...

Memory Lane: Remembering Lou ‘Bimbo’ Cecconi

Western Pennsylvania sports fans were saddened by the passing of a legend from a bygone era when Lou “Bimbo” Cecconi died on Feb. 24 at Paramount Senior Living Care in Bethel Park at the age of 95. In an era before SportsCenter and the internet Cecconi was a full-fledged star going back ...

Memory Lane: Mays excelled in basketball, football at Uniontown

James “Junior” Mays forged an outstanding athletic career at Uniontown, but looking back he wishes he had done things differently off the court and off the football field. Mays got an early start in athletics and benefited from Uniontown's great playground culture. “I was playing ...

Coach DummĢƵ extra long ‘dash’

In 1996, Linda Ellis wrote “The Dash,” a poem that looks at a personĢƵ life, with the year they were born, what year they passed away, and the dash in between which represents the kind of life they lived. For longtime educator and football coach Jim Dumm, who passed away last Sunday, ...