My brother Seth and I are the only Milwaukee Brewers fans we know. Growing up in Altoona in the 1990s, Seth cheered for the Indians, and I rooted for the Red Sox. We both liked Richie Sexson, Cleveland’s 6-foot-8 first baseman who sometimes played left field. When he got traded to ...
The Indianapolis Colts have two Blair County high school football stars on their roster in Luke Rhodes (left) and Kevin Givens this season. Givens, a standout at Altoona, was signed this past weekend by the Colts after spending the past eight seasons with the 49ers. Rhodes, a Hollidaysburg ...
Bellwood-Antis hosts Bald Eagle Area in an intriguing District 6 Class 2A football quarterfinal Friday at John R. Hayes Stadium at Memorial Field. Both teams began the season 3-0, but while Bellwood-Antis has sustained that success for most of the season and earned the No. 3 seed in the ...
When a program has never won a district title, sometimes that goal seems so far-fetched it isn’t even on anyone’s radar. That’s why emotions were overflowing following Central Cambria’s 2-1 victory in the District 6 Class 2A girls soccer championship game at Mansion Park on ...
JOHNSTOWN — The District 6 Class 2A boys soccer championship matchup between top-seeded Westmont Hilltop and second-seeded Central Cambria was that proverbial game that neither team deserved to lose, but that circumstances required one team to suffer that unfortunate fate. After the two ...
Brandon Lowe has been named an N.L. Silver Slugger Award finalist among second basemen by Louisville Slugger. Lowe, who is looking to win his first Silver Slugger, is joined by Milwaukee’s Brice Turang. Lowe hit .260 (152-for-584) with 29 doubles, 35 home runs, 96 RBI, a .331 on-base ...
