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Close-up view of Monessen, Charleroi rivalry

Friday night, the biggest sports rivalry in the Mon Valley is renewed for the first time since Aug. 31, 2007, when Monessen hosts Charleroi at Memorial Stadium in the football season opener for both.Monessen won the last match-up, 28-17.The layoff will end at eight years, 11 months, and 26 ...

Never can get enough of the Olympics

The Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, are over, and I am sad.The Olympics were outstanding. One exciting day after another. From the soccer games that were contested before the Summer Games officially opened on Aug. 5, to the closing ceremony Sunday night, I was mesmerized.I ...

Thoughts on several Steelers

From the notebook of a sportswriter whoëƵs just going by what heëƵs seen and heard to tell you what I know about ...- <strong>Ladarius Green.</strong>ThereëƵs been so much back and forth written about him that no one, IëƵm sure, knows what to believe. But I will ...

Tonight’s SummerSlam could be the best in event’s history

The WWE presents the 29th-annual SummerSlam on the WWE Network tonight, and the card might be the strongest in the eventëƵs history.It will also have the most matches as well as there are 13 bouts scheduled and it is a safe bet that the event, which starts an hour earlier at 7 p.m., will run ...

Harrison should just get it over with

This one seems like a no-brainer for James Harrison.I mean, check out the help heëƵs getting from around the internet:n ëƵThe NFLëƵs desire to be all-powerful, to have inexorable and unreasonable domain over its players, has in fact left those players, every one of them, open to blackmailëƵ ...

Brownsville’s Columbia starred in early 1950s

Brownsville High School has always had a strong baseball tradition and has sent numerous players on to professional baseball. One of the names on that list is Dave Columbia who was a standout infielder for coach Charlie Slick in the early 1950s.Columbia played baseball on the sandlots in ...