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3 moves to boost Pirates’ chances

To be fair, I didn’t think they would be doing this well.I am referring to the Pittsburgh Pirates, who, after pulling off a walk-off victory on Memorial Day, sported a 24-28 record. While I, like most fans, am not pleased with the team being four games below .500 the day after Memorial Day, I ...

Uniontown’s Wilhelm was one of Fayette County’s earliest baseball stars

Does the name Harry Wilhelm mean anything to you? If you are a fan of Fayette County baseball it should.Wilhelm was regarded as one of the diamond greats of Fayette County back in the day, he also was a childhood friend of General George C. Marshall, and played on the same team with the great ...

Bucs by Numbers: One stat to rule them all?

One offensive metric to rule them all?Sometimes I wonder if there are too many baseball statistics.That thought has nothing to do with sabermetrics. One can look at the back of any baseball card from older eras of the game and see a stat-line as long as the card. Those cards and those ...

Was starting Murray a tough decision?

PITTSBURGH — Penguins coach Mike Sullivan called his goaltender choice for Game 4 an incredibly difficult decision.Was it really?Sullivan believes in Matt Murray. He stuck with him in the playoffs last season long after Marc-Andre Fleury was available. He installed him as the No. 1 goalie ...

Hurdle stuck with bad batch of ingredients

PITTSBURGH — ThereÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a TV cooking show that gives chefs an assortment of ingredients and challenges them to make a meal of the random mix.They might get chicken thighs, artichokes, peanut butter, bananas and bamboo shoots. The impossible task is to take those items and create a meal that ...

Mon Valley Memories: Charleroi’s Kemp was great all-around athlete

Fans of the old American Football League remember Jack Kemp as an All-Pro quarterback who later went on to be a successful politician — he even ran for the office of Vice President on the same ticket with Bob Dole in 1996. Well, local football fans also remember another signal caller named ...