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Mixing two adult sports

With scholastic sports on a break until August, many kids — and their parents — are spending the summer playing recreational sports. Many sports, like football, wrestling and baseball (unless you play for Lilly’s City League team), get harder or impossible to participate in the older you get. If you can find a league, you also run the risk of injury which could keep you away from a full-time job. Two sports that remain popular for adults into their 80s though are running and golf. Other than being exercise that people can easily find places to participate in, the sports ...

Excellent rotation has Pirates hopeful for playoff berth

Pitching is the engine that drives the team vehicle at almost all levels of baseball, and in that respect, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ prospects look very promising in the second half of this Major League Baseball season. Despite an offense that has registered a team batting average of just ...

Glover shows how quickly fortunes can change in golf

GULLANE, Scotland — Lucas Glover is in a far better position than he was a year ago when he was fighting for job security, not any form of privilege. What hasn’t changed is the urgency. Everyone knew it was going to be a sprint this year because the PGA Tour switched back to a calendar season. The starting line was in January, not the previous September. Only four tournaments remain before the top 70 move on to the FedEx Cup playoffs. That’s one reason Glover was among 28 players who went to the John Deere Classic before flying across six time zones to the Scottish Open this ...

Pirates might be selling at trade deadline

Notes and observations about Major League Baseball as the All-Star Game approaches: n It’s starting to look like the Pittsburgh Pirates could be sellers rather than buyers at the season’s July 30 trade deadline. Barring something like a 5-1 resurgence on their six-game road trip that starts Tuesday night in Milwaukee with a three-game series against the National League Central Division Brewers and winds up with a three-game weekend set against the woeful Chicago White Sox leading up to the All-Star break, the Pirates are substantially out of the running for the NL Central lead ...

Volunteers needed to report turkey sightings, count others

The Annual Pennsylvania Wild Turkey Sighting Survey is currently underway and runs through Aug. 31. This project is important for managing wild turkey populations throughout Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission is looking for reports of turkey sightings this summer from the public. “The turkey survey enhances our agency’s internal survey, which serves as a long-term index of turkey reproduction and is used in our turkey population model,” Game Commission Turkey Biologist Mary Jo Casalena said. “Participants should report all turkeys seen, whether gobblers, hens ...

Caught off guard by presidential handicap banter

It sounds like the punchline for a joke — “I tuned in to watch a presidential debate last Thursday night, but a ‘golf handicap’ fight broke out!” Like many Americans, I tuned in to watch last week’s presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, hoping to gain some insights about each candidate’s views as the election campaign begins to ramp up. While many important topics were covered early on, the debate took an unusual turn toward the end of the evening. Answering a question about his fitness, Trump began talking about his golfing prowess, only to be ...