Fake field goal! Going for it on fourth down at your own 28! Heck yeah, sign me up for all of that! “You play … to win ... the game! You don’t play to just play!” That was the famous rant by then-Jets coach Herm Edwards back in 2002. The quote symbolizes that football coaches and ...
PITTSBURGH — The Altoona Area High School girls soccer team kept its season alive on Wednesday night with a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory over Allderdice in the District 6-8-10 Class 4A semifinals at Cupples Stadium. Altoona’s Ajaycia Alexander buried the game-winner with 17 seconds ...
PHILIPSBURG — Hollidaysburg entered the District 6 Class 3A boys soccer playoffs as the defending champion, but junior Micah Blake didn’t get a chance to be part of that team due to a knee injury. He’s making up for lost time. After scoring the game-winning goal in a semifinal win over ...
The 2026 scholastic soccer season has been one of the most exciting in many years, highlighted by a number of outstanding teams and games, but the District 6 4A girls final stands out as the single-most exciting game between two longtime rivals. The Altoona Lady Lions had not had the type of season head coach Marc Frye had envisioned. They did play an incredibly rugged schedule with some of the state’s top teams, but through some very unfortunate injuries of very key players, they endeavored to persevere through the season. Coming into the 4A championship game, few would have placed ...
PHILIPSBURG — On the surface, playing in a double-overtime semifinal game while your championship opponent had a bye seems like a disadvantage. But for the Hollidaysburg girls soccer team, its victory over Central Mountain in that round helped propel the Lady Tigers to a 2-1 win over ...
Texas Rangers prospect Paxton Kling, a standout baseball player at Central High School and Penn State, has been doing quite well for himself in the team’s organization. His “Fall Stars” selection proves it. Kling was picked on Wednesday to play in the Arizona Fall League’s Fall Stars ...
