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More discontent ahead for golf

By Paul Newberry The Associated Press ATLANTA — Golf’s season of discontent reaches its official stopping point this weekend at the Tour Championship. Predicting where the sport goes from here is sort of like trying to hole a shot from the fairway. The PGA Tour was woefully slow in reacting to the challenge from upstart, Saudi-backed LIV Golf. When it finally mustered a defense on the historic grounds of East Lake Golf Club, it seemed nothing more than a bunch of warmed-over ideas pulled straight from rebel tour’s playbook. Mainly, it comes down to this: The top PGA Tour ...

LL memories will last a lifetime

Every year the annual Little League World Series brings back a flood of memories for me, and I'm especially happy the Hollidaysburg kids are the first Blair County team to play for all of the marbles in Williamsport. In the summer of 1962, I was selected as a center fielder on the Altoona Little League all-star team that was fully expected to reach the Little League World Series. It was the best baseball team on which I ever played. We had a strong pitching staff, great hitters and always played well defensively. We opened play in mid-July on our home field, which was then ...

It’s been a dreary week in sports

When you awake to a dreary day, it puts you in a bit of a mood. Especially when you’re a journalist, which for some of us is essentially a synonym for grumpy cynic. Considering we’re still more than four months way from Festivus and the annual Airing of the Grievances, let’s see if there’s room for a new summer tradition. A few things that are bugging me (in no particular order): n Deshaun Watson will return to the football field this season, albeit after sitting out an 11-game suspension, paying a $5 million fine and getting some long-overdue treatment for his shocking ...

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Adding more names to Mo Valley’s ‘cradle’ The Aug. 6 article, “Cradle of high school coaches,” which spotlighted the many head coaches from the Moshannon Valley School District, was interesting and very well written. One coach who should have been included is former Glendale High School head football coach John Lloyd. Coach Lloyd was from Ramey and one of his longtime assistant coaches, George Mills, was from Houtzdale. Both men played high school football in the Moshannon Valley School District. Together, with the late Tom Terza, they coached the ...

No limit to college football movement

By Bill Contz For the Mirror Most movie-goers my age recognize Godzilla as the skyscraper-toppling terror who routinely wreaked havoc on unsuspecting citizens of Tokyo. Sci-fi enthusiasts condoning this carnage as wholesome entertainment have anointed this spike-backed behemoth as “King of all monsters.” With the addition of its new west coast affiliates USC and UCLA, the Big Ten Conference now grows to a formidable sixteen teams. As such, I contend the NCAA should this mega conglomerate “King of all conferences” and, similar to the existing superpower to the south ...

One last salute to four of our greatest athletes of all time

To call them four of the greatest athletes in the history of women’s sports is a bit of a slight. Let’s just call them four of the greatest. Period. In what should be a melancholy, reflective time for all sports fans, Serena Williams, Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles and Allyson Felix have decided it’s time to go, almost in unison, leaving behind a gaping hole that the next generation will be hard-pressed to fill. Because these four icons are more than just stellar athletes, though their accomplishments on courts and tracks around the world leave no doubt they are — and were — ...