The phone calls started coming long before the lights at “The Pit” flickered on for the first time this fall. “When will the senior citizen passes be available?” Aliquippa High athletic director Jennifer Damico’s office heard more than once as the latest season of Quips football ...
HARRISBURG — Altoona needed both its dynamic offense and a ball-hawking defense to hold off a scrappy Central Dauphin East squad by a 41-33 count in a steamy Thursday night shootout at Landis Field. The Mountain Lions clawed their way to 350 yards of offense while generating the defense ...
CHICAGO — Jared Jones pitched seven innings of one-hit ball, Oneil Cruz added a solo home run and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago White Sox 2-0 on Thursday night to complete a three-game series sweep. The White Sox had just two hits in losing for the eighth time in 11 games. ...
Outfielders Lonnie White Jr. and Will Taylor are highly-touted baseball prospects who both could have had promising careers in football. Smith was recruited by Penn State for football and Taylor played both football and baseball collegiately at Clemson. The Pittsburgh Pirates organization, ...
A year ago, Bedford did not have many highlights on the high school football gridiron but one was a 14-13 win over Central Cambria. Those teams meet again at Bedford tonight at 7 p.m. and both squads have their eyes set on much better campaigns in 2026. “Games like this are big, because we ...
The 49th annual Greater Altoona tournament is scheduled to take place this weekend. The best golfers in our area will open with 18 holes of stroke play at Sinking Valley on Saturday and finish with a final round at Iron Masters Country Club on Sunday. First played in 1978, the Greater ...
