Bishop Guilfoyle Academy won its first District 6 Class 3A boys basketball championship since 2021 when the Marauders knocked off Forest Hills, which had beaten them for the Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference title just a couple weeks before. Thanks in part to that championship and the ...
In what turned out to be the best season for Altoona girls basketball in more than 20 years, senior Zaelinh Nguyen-Moore and coach Chris Fleegle were recognized by area coaches and media as the Altoona Mirror Girls Basketball Player of the Year and Co-Altoona Mirror Girls Basketball Coach of ...
Anyone who has ever fished or enjoyed the Little Juniata River has one man and one association to thank, said Lee Pryor, a director of the Little Juniata River Association. That man is Bill Anderson, who is the “driving force” responsible for fundraising hundreds of thousands of dollars ...
Usually the Altoona Curve clubhouse is subdued prior to a game as the team prepares, but Friday night, all eyes were on the debut of their former teammate Konnor Griffin. Nearly every member of the Curve roster and coaching staff watched as Griffin took the field for the Pirates and his MLB ...
PITTSBURGH — All of the emotions were there, from joy to jitters and everything in between. Well, almost everything. The one thing Konnor Griffin didn’t feel when the Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop — all 19 years and 344 days of him — ahead of his big league debut Friday against the ...
Last Sunday, I was standing in front of my seat, dead center of the court, behind the benches of UConn and Duke, during a timeout with just 27 seconds left in the game and Duke holding a 72-69 lead. Amidst the deafening noise from the fans, I watched Dan Hurley of UConn and Jon Scheyer of ...