The Mirror and the local sports community mourned one of its pillars in the wake of former sports editor Jim Lane’s passing Monday at age 85 (see obituary here). Jim was long retired by the time I joined the sports desk as a part-timer nearly 10 years ago, but he was still a regular in the ...

The last time is now. Dec. 13 marks the end of the line in the career of one of the best professional wrestling has ever had to offer. John Cena will enter a WWE ring one final time Saturday night to take on Gunther, winner of “The Last Time is Now” Tournament, at Capital One Arena in ...

John Cena’s WWE career retirement tour is winding down with only four more in-ring appearances left for one of professional wrestling’s GOATs. It wasn’t very surprising when fans learned that Cena would face AJ Styles at last weekend’s premium live event, Crown Jewel, in Perth, ...

The winds of change may be coming in the long-running video game console wars. My college roommate reached out to me last week asking my thoughts when he said he and his wife were considering getting a Playstation 5. After rolling back over and going to sleep for a few hours because I’ve ...

Faithful readers of “Penn State Gameday” in their Friday Altoona Mirror may have noticed in my comment from Week 1 I mentioned that I would not be watching what became the Nittany Lions’ win over Nevada last weekend. Nay, I elected instead to spend the first full weekend of college ...

In professional wrestling, the phrase "card subject to change" is pretty standard. You never know, even in scripted sports, if an injury can throw the entire show's trajectory into chaos, sometimes affecting every other story going on. In some scenarios, stories can pivot and change based ...