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National HS football hall of fame moving to new location
Still-developing plans have Brook Park in Ohio slated to be the home of the Cleveland Browns’ new $2.4 billion dome stadium in 2029. Another football locale is coming to the city much sooner. Next summer, the National High School Football Hall of Fame will move into town. A “letter of...
Lernerville Speedway to welcome High Limit drivers for annual Don Martin Silver Cup
Dirt track racing is alive and well in America. But as an outdoor sporting event, the weather can throw the proverbial monkey wrench into the best planning. In 2025, Lernerville Speedway has been treated to one rainout after another, having just five live events so far. Rain has canceled quite...
Shaler assistant track coach wins axe-throwing championship
When Adeline Kubicsek got a job at LumberjAxes in Millvale, little did she know that it would change her life. Despite the covid-19 pandemic beginning shortly after she started, the job sparked her passion for axe throwing. “I look at it as the easier your throw is, the less you...
Neal Shipley hanging tough, seeking 3rd win on Korn Ferry Tour
Neal Shipley will enter the final round of the Korn Ferry Tour Price Cutter Charity Championship on Sunday four strokes behind leader Chandler Blanchett. The Mt. Lebanon native and Central Catholic graduate shot a 4-under par 68 during Saturday’s third round at Highland Springs Country Club in Springfield, Mo., and...
Fox Chapel native Jack Katsonas excited for opportunity in Tampa Bay organization
Jack Kartsonas prefers to dominate one task at a time. On a recent Wednesday, the former West Virginia University standout and Fox Chapel native was only worried about the quality of the steak he was cooking and not about the challenge of leaping into minor league baseball. Kartsonas, who played...
Hampton pair playing lacrosse on international stage
Former Hampton lacrosse star Emi DiLiberto figured she had nothing to lose when she reached out to the Argentina women’s national team in spring 2024. Then things got loco. “It’s a crazy story,” DiLiberto said. “My father found a contact form online. We filled it out and laughed it off....
Shipley second at Korn Ferry Tour’s Price Cutter Charity Championship
Neal Shipley went to bed Thursday in a three-way tie for the lead at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Price Cutter Charity Championship in Springfield, Mo. But because severe weather suspended play at Highland Springs Country Club, when the round was completed on Friday morning, he trailed Chandler Blanchet by a...
Annual Freeport International Baseball Invitational set to begin
Chuck Sarver pored over the schedule Friday morning, checking on the nearly two dozen teams that will descend on Freeport and its surrounding communities this week for the annual Freeport International Baseball Invitational. The FIBI president said the schedule — which includes the return of the Aussie Drop Bears organization...
Golf notebook: Penn-Trafford grad Nick Turowski qualifies for US Amateur; Neal Shipley leads again
West Virginia sophomore and 2024 Penn-Trafford graduate Nick Turowski qualified for the U.S. Amateur Championship in San Francisco by placing third in the final local qualifying at The Club at P.B. Dye in Ijamsville, Md., on Thursday. The U.S. Amateur will be played Aug. 11-17 at the Olympic Club. Turowski...
Neal Shipley closing in on PGA Tour card
Neal Shipley has almost secured a spot on the PGA Tour in 2026. Another win for the Mr. Lebanon native on the Korn Ferry Tour this season would earn him an automatic promotion to the PGA Tour, effective for the next full-field event. Shipley shot an 8-under par 64 on...
Turf Wars II delivers hard-hitting outdoor card to Highmark Stadium crowd
Light rain briefly fell during Turf Wars II on Saturday at Highmark Stadium, but there were no light punches in the forecast for the seven fights on the card. Four of the bouts ended via TKO. The main event of the evening featured the event’s promoter, Bill “Hutch” Hutchinson (21-3-4,...
Mt. Lebanon’s Neal Shipley scores comeback win on Korn Ferry Tour
BERTHOUD, Colo. — Trailing by seven shots entering the final round, Mt. Lebanon’s Neal Shipley won The Ascendant for his second Korn Ferry Tour victory of the season and his career, shooting an 8-under 64 on Sunday for a one-stroke margin. The 24-year-old Central Catholic graduate finished at 18-under 270...
America’s Mile race draws thousands of runners to North Shore
Just a short distance from the first night of the annual Picklesburgh festival on the Roberto Clemente (Sixth Street) and Andy Warhol (Seventh Street) bridges, a couple thousand runners and walkers took to a North Shore road course Friday evening as P3R and VisitPITTSBURGH hosted the America’s Mile. This year,...
Murrysville evens District 31 Legion series; Unity surprises Latrobe
What a difference a day makes. After playing one of its worst games of the season, Murrysville responded with one of its better games. Pitcher Ethan Raver allowed five hits and an unearned run to lead Murrysville to a 4-1 victory against Bushy Run in Game 2 of their best-of-three...
Roush wins Falling Rock Classic; Hansberry, Severns win match play titles
West Virginian Ty Roush posted an even par during the second round Tuesday at Nemacolin Woodland Resort’s Mystic Rock to win the Falling Rock Classic. Roush finished with an even par 144. He won by two strokes over John Aber, Easton Renwick and first round leader Devin Gee of Oakmont...
Pittsburgh boxer tests undefeated record during all-female ‘Taylor vs. Serrano 3’ fights on Netflix
Pittsburgh boxer Mary Casamassa is still trying to fully absorb the notion that her next fight will not just take place at the legendary Madison Square Garden, but will also go out live to the world on Netflix. “I don’t know if it’s entirely sunk in yet, to be honest,”...
Latrobe clinches District 31 Legion baseball title; playoffs begin Monday
Latrobe clinched the District 31 American Legion regular-season title by defeating Bushy Run, 8-3, on Sunday. The Jethawks won their final two games to win the title. They defeated Unity, 3-2, on July 4. Bushy Run halted Lower Burrell’s seven-game winning streak with a 5-4 win Saturday. Hempfield clinched second...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: WWE’s Monday Night Raw color men from Western PA at center of debate
Pittsburgh has a rich pro wrestling tradition: Kurt Angle, Bruno Sammartino, Larry Zbyszko, Shane Douglas, me. But now, internal debate in WWE involves two Pittsburgh-born talents: Pat McAfee and Corey Graves. Plum’s McAfee had been the color analyst on flagship telecast Monday Night Raw since January. He succeeded Monroeville’s Graves,...
Short-handed Riveters defeated in inaugural playoff game
Piper Coffield would have loved to have six of her teammates alongside her during the Pittsburgh Riveters USL W Central Conference semifinal playoff game Friday at Highmark Stadium. But the Mars graduate knows how things work in the summer at the pre-professional level. As the summer gets later, players have...
Norwin grad JJ Matijevic keeps slugging in Mexican Baseball League
To follow JJ Matijevic online in the Mexican Baseball League, fans might have to make an extra click to translate the league website into English. No translation is needed when it comes to Matijevic still chasing his dream of playing at the game’s highest level. Watch him swing a bat...
Lower Burrell American Legion stays hot, blanks Hempfield East
The Lower Burrell American Legion baseball team picked a great time to get hot. Lower Burrell knocked off the top team in the District 31 standings for the second consecutive day. On Monday it was Latrobe (11-4), and Tuesday it was Hempfield East (11-4-1). Jake Smith tossed an eight-hit shutout,...
District 31 American Legion teams jump into busy final week of regular season
It is going to be a busy week for baseball teams in District 31 American Legion. There is a week left in the regular season, and teams are scrambling to get in all their games before Sunday. District 31 President and Latrobe coach Jason Bush said things are proceeding smoothly....
‘I just wanted to come back and show love:’ Skyy Moore hosts Before Your Eyes Summer Jam
Sunday marked the fourth time Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Skyy Moore gave back to his hometown of New Kensington. He returns each time for the kids, hoping to inspire the younger generation. “It’s all about the kids that look up to me,” Moore said. “For everybody that had a...
Quaker Valley graduate Adou Thiero headed to Lakers in 2nd round of NBA Draft
Quaker Valley graduate Adou Thiero is headed to the Los Angeles Lakers. Thiero was chosen with the sixth pick of the second round of the NBA Draft on Thursday night, 36th overall. The Lakers were apparently eager to pick him, moving up from 55th with a pair of trades to...
West Mifflin’s L.J. Mooney is eager to make his own path into the NHLVideo
The comparisons are always going to be there. And frankly, L.J. Mooney and cousin Logan Cooley don’t do much to dissuade them. They have been working out together for several years, even after Cooley made the jump to the NHL in 2023. And that habit hasn’t changed in the early...
