There are three phases to football: offense, defense and special teams.You usually need to excel in all three to win a close game, especially in the playoffs.Frazier did just that on Friday night in its 14-13 WPIAL Class A quarterfinal victory over Shenango at Chartiers-Houston.After surviving ...
If you looked at the South Side Beaver at Frazier football sum from Friday night's game, you'll see this last entry in the scoring sum: "(run failed)."But there was so much more to it than those two simple words when the WPIAL Class A first-round playoff battle between the Rams and Commodores ...
<em>(Rob Burchianti would like to hear from you, baseball fans. If you have a great ballpark experience you'd like to share, email him at rburchianti@heraldstandard.com and he may reprint your account.)</em>Traveling to different baseball parks around the country has ...
If you鈥檙e a longtime Uniontown basketball fan odds are you recognize the name 鈥淒euce鈥� Skurcenski.And not in a good way.For those of you who don鈥檛 know the story, the Red Raiders were playing Farrell in a PIAA state basketball playoff game in 1988 when Deuce, serving as the official ...
First, let me say we in the 蘑菇视频 sports department appreciate when you call in results to us.With 16 high schools and a three-man staff we depend heavily on phone calls to help us write up stories. Obviously, we can't cover every game ourselves.Having said that, please, all you ...
PITTSBURGH -- There's an old adage in baseball that good pitching always beats good hitting.If you don't agree with it, then you weren't watching the Pirates' 5-4 victory over the Tigers in Pittsburgh's home opener at PNC Park on Monday afternoon.Detroit entered the game unbeaten at 6-0 and as ...
