By Neil Rudel nrudel@altoonamirror.com On one hand, Mag Strittmatter is thrilled that collegiate sports is celebrating the 50-year anniversary of Title IX. On the other hand, she can’t believe a half century has passed since she became Penn State’s first female scholarship ...
AUSTIN, Texas — The number of countries at the Match Play is the same as when this concept of World Golf Championships began, except for the flags. The 17 countries at the first Match Play in 1999 included Paraguay and the Philippines, Zimbabwe and Fiji. Now we have Chile and Norway, Colombia and Belgium. And still circling the waters 23 years later — in a far different capacity — is a Shark. “How much of a sense of vindication,” began the question to Greg Norman, one of the 64 players at La Costa in 1999. More than the No. 28 seed that week, he was considered the ...
The seventh annual SheBelieves Cup Tournament this year from Feb. 17-23 resulted in the fifth tourney title for the United States women’s national team. The SheBelieves Cup is part of the U.S. Soccer’s SheBelieves initiative to inspire and empower women and girls to achieve goals in soccer and beyond. The USA women won the title in a big way with a 5-0 rout of Iceland. The U.S. women controlled play throughout, but it was not until late in the first half that emerging star, Catarina Macario, opened the scoring and struck again with two goals to end the half. The Cup, played ...
The two big men standing shoulder to shoulder in The Associated Press photo taken Sunday in the mayor’s office in beleaguered Kyiv, Ukraine, were instantly recognizable to most boxing fans. Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, the sons of a Soviet major general, are both former heavyweight ...
By now you’ve no doubt seen last Sunday’s altercation that resulted in a five-game suspension for Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard. The Big Ten acted decisively in sidelining Howard, the former Fab 5 and NBA standout, for the remainder of the regular season after he slapped a Wisconsin assistant coach in the head during a post-game scrum as the teams were shaking heads. Wisconsin coach Greg Gard fueled the confrontation, but Howard turned it into a national embarrassment — one of the stories of the year in college basketball — and deserved the discipline. That Gard ...
Trout season will see some significant changes for 2022 here in Pennsylvania. The first of those will be a return to a single opening day with a single Mentored Youth Trout Day statewide. In 2007, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission adopted two separate opening days for trout. In 18 southeastern counties, trout season opened two weeks earlier than the traditional first day in the rest of the state. This format also necessitated two separate Mentored Youth Trout Days. The first day of trout season will now happen on the first Saturday of April each year rather than the ...
