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Penn Cambria’s Niebauer to retire as wrestling coach this week

Todd Niebauer coached the Penn Cambria wrestling team through some of the program’s best dual meet and postseason success. He also helped navigate the Panthers through heartbreaking tragedy. Niebauer, who has amassed a 216-177 record in 24 years as Penn Cambria’s head coach was inducted ...

Trailblazing class of women entering HOF this weekend

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Dawn Staley and the 1996 Olympic women’s basketball team paved the way for the WNBA and players such as Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne and Chamique Holdsclaw. The team that started the Americans’ 30-year Olympic dominance will be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial ...

New model of college sports is a turnoff

I enjoyed Neil Rudel’s Aug. 6 column leading into the Penn State football season. 1. First, to address his question about predicting the season. My word is uncertain. A lot — a whole lot — of new moving parts — players, coaches, opponents, the entire lousy system of what used to be college sports (see No. 2). He and I have corresponded about this for a couple of years, since the disastrous Peach Bowl against Ole Miss when, in my opinion, so many Penn State players quit on the team. 2. College sports is no longer “college” sports. It’s “professional” sports ...

Summer heat wave has shot at history

Wildfires were burning in North America and Europe. Deadly heat waves parked over cities and the world’s oceans were the hottest ever recorded for this time of year. A strengthening El Nino is forecast to be off-the-charts, spiking global temperatures and warping weather all over. While it may seem like the planet is baking through a record-shattering summer from hell, it’s not quite in record territory. Yet. So far this is only the third-hottest year, behind 2024 and 2025, climate statistics show. But give 2026 time. Because of a one-two punch of accelerated human-caused global ...

Officials will not release cool water from Colorado River

Federal officials recently announced that they will not release cool water this year from one of the Colorado River’s major reservoirs, which would have protected a threatened native fish downstream but put more strain on already struggling hydropower production. In an email obtained by The ...