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People Forget How Good Andrew Johnson Really Was at North Hills

She Was Walking to a Pep Rally and Never Made It: The Disappearance of 14-Year-Old Toni McNatt

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Pittsburgh’s Greatest “What If?” Athletes — Part 4: Shannon Davis

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The Championship That Officially Never Happened: Why Penn Hills Still Claims 1979

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Michael Hawkins Jr. Is Proof That Fit Matters More Than NIL Money

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“God Has Another Calling for You”: The Words Gerald “Puddin” Grayson Gave Me That Took a Decade to Understand

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Full Circle: Tyler Bluemling Comes Home to Lead Mt. Lebanon Basketball

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Clinton Davis Was Different: The Steel Valley Sprinter Who Was Beating World-Class Runners in High School

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I Miss When College Coaches Actually Came to High School Games to Recruit

Why Netflix’s Jeffrey Dahmer Series Pulled Me In More Than John Wayne Gacy

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Sometimes You Don’t Realize How Much a Message Means Until Someone Is Gone

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Did Plum Know What Was Coming? 30 Years Later, I Still Wonder About Penn Hills’ 1996 Playoff Loss

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The First Time I Saw LaVar Arrington, I Knew He Was Different

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Penn Hills Still Has the Talent. But the Community Connection Has Changed

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Before Woodland Hills Became Woodland Hills, Swissvale Had a Beast Named Brian Chizmar

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The 1999 South Side Beaver Rams Deserve Their Flowers

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Eddie Benton Was a Bucket: Remembering One of Pittsburgh’s Forgotten Division I Scoring Machines

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Pittsburgh’s Greatest “What If?” Athletes — Part 5: Shai McKenzie

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The Game I Wish We Could Have Seen: 1991 Perry vs. 2007 Schenley

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Before I Ever Became a Writer, Jesse Washington Was Showing Me the Power of Words

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Piggybacking Off Mike White: My Theory on Why Western Pennsylvania Is Producing Fewer NFL Players

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The Only One: Remembering Waynesburg Central’s Historic 1999 WPIAL Championship

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Two Penn Hills Legends, Two Different Legacies: Why Bill Fralic Will Always Mean More to Me Than George Karl

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The Steelers’ Offense Needs to Run Through Jaylen Warren

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Giving Rick Bell His Flowers: One of the WPIAL’s Best Coaches Gave Me Mine Years Ago.

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If You Played WPIAL or City League Sports in the ’90s, You Remember Saturday Morning Sportsweek

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When Two WPIAL Stars Collided: Drew Schifino vs. Yuri Demetris

Long before social media, mixtapes, and national recruiting rankings became part of high school basketball,...

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WVU Brotherhood: Wes Lyons — From Woodland Hills to Morgantown

Some players earn respect long before they ever step onto a college field. Wes Lyons...

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Creating Pathways to Opportunity: How Terrel Williams Is Helping Pittsburgh’s Youth Build Brighter Futures

Some people measure success by titles. Others measure it by the lives they help change....

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Throwback Thursday: Barry Tielsch — A Penn Hills Lineman Who Set the Standard

When people talk about great Penn Hills football players, the conversation usually starts with quarterbacks,...

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Through the Lens: How Ujamaa “Link” Walker Is Capturing Pittsburgh One Moment at a Time

The best photographers don’t just take pictures. They tell stories. For Pittsburgh native Ujamaa “Link”...

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WVU Brotherhood: Mountaineer Legend Kevin Jones Reflects on the Final Four, Bob Huggins, and a Lifetime Bond with Mountaineer Nation 

There are players who leave West Virginia with unforgettable moments. Then there are players who...

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