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Jim_Downey

Summer is quickly coming to an end

The county league is playing its championship series. The Pittsburgh Steelers arrived in Latrobe for training camp. American Legion baseball starts the state tournament Saturday, and the annual county golf championship is on the near horizon. That all adds up to one thing ëƵ the time for ...

The Pittsburgh PiratesëƵ opening week brought to mind a quote from Karate Kid II (yeah, I sense the collective eye roll). Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) kneels bedside where his father, in failing health, is resting. His father stirs and recognizes his son, who left the village years before, ...

San Fran, McCaffrey will edge Chiefs

Before I get to my thoughts on Super Bowl LVIII, hereëƵs what the next generations of Downey prognosticators think. Great-nephew Collin Downey, a middle-school student in the Hempfield Area School District, simply stated, ëƵKansas City Chiefs, 31-17.ëƵ Nephew Brian Lohr hit the prediction ...

SankëƵs a WPIAL HOFer, too

Upon further review ëƵ Apparently, Beth Swink is the fifth individual with ties to Connellsville to be inducted into the WPIAL Hall of Fame. I mustëƵve had a fanëƵs perceived accuracy of NFL officiating these days when searching the list. (More on this later). As I scanned the ...

Pittsburgh sports fans keep Santa busy

A disclaimer ëƵ this exquisite prose was written a couple days before Christmas, so as you are reading this column Saturday morning, I am obviously unaware of the outcome of the Bengals-Steelers holiday clash. Though, I have a great headline should the backup to the backup quarterback lead ...

Closing the book on fall sports, almost

Here we sit, on the cusp of the winter sports season. Yep, basketball, wrestling, swimming and rifle are permitted to play in earnest on the first day of December. Basketball tournaments abound within driving distance (more on that in Friday's paper), with a few wrestling tournaments mixed ...