You may have heard by now the Penguins, up 3-1 on the San Jose Sharks, are on the verge of winning their fourth Stanley Cup championship.You may also have heard from many fans and most of those in the media that this is an inevitability, and that those folks prefer it to be at home, since the ...
You want parity, you got it in the NCAA men's basketball tournament this year.At least that's what I keep hearing, things like the tournament is wide open, anyone can win it, there will be upsets galore.I'm not buying it. Every tournament has upsets and I look at the 2016 bracket and don't see ...
The year was 1996 when California University of Pa. introduced Bill Brown as its new men's basketball coach.Twenty years later Brown is still guiding the Vulcans and has amassed more wins than any other coach in the program's history. His record currently stands at 365-206 at Cal U and he's ...
ELIZABETH -- The loss stung. The season was over.The Frazier Commodores had just fallen to the mighty Clairton Bears in the WPIAL Class A semifinals, 56-15, on Friday night and coach Mike Steeber had one last huddle with his squad before letting them leave the field for the final time this ...
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 ...
