May 9 is a very important date to me. And for many reasons, too. It’s the day after my sons, Dom and Vinny, turn 23! It will be one week to the date after my beloved cousin, Rich DeLeo, celebrates his birthday on May 2. It’s also one week to the date that I will celebrate No. 61 on May ...
Lydell Mitchell has lived a dream for most of his life, going all the way back to his days growing up in New Jersey to the football fields at Penn State and then in the National Football League for nine seasons. If you don’t believe that, you can just ask him. Better yet … maybe you’ll ...
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series on the Blair County Sports Hall of Fame’s class of 2026 honorees: How long has Lori Elgin loved basketball? You can trace it back to her roots as an elementary student at St. Mary’s, a parochial school in Altoona when she was Lori McConnell. ...
Stop me if you heard this one before. You know what … don’t because I’m in a bad mood and this is going to be me venting. A pastor at my church in Duncansville once said to me that God doesn’t give you more than you can handle. Well you know what … God must think the world of ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — On an afternoon when the defense played well enough to get the team a win, the offense belonging to the Hollidaysburg Lady Tigers did not, and it was a matter of you can’t have one thing without the other. Trinity definitely had the one thing and that was its long-range ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Hollidaysburg and Altoona Area girls basketball teams had not played in a week or more when the two met up Thursday night to make up a game that had been postponed from earlier this month. Both had won their respective District 6 titles in 6A and 5A, respectively. It ...