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Bill Fralic among athletic greats to be inducted into Croatian American Sports Hall of Fame
Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania will be well represented as the Croatian American Sports Hall of Fame Committee welcomes 11 new members at a banquet ceremony Saturday evening at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center hotel Downtown. Legendary Pitt athletes Bill Fralic, Ralph Cindrich and Tim Grgurich will be joined by Penn...
Former boxing world champion Paul Spadafora hospitalized in Las Vegas after dog attack
Former IBF lightweight world champion Paul Spadafora is hospitalized in Las Vegas after being attacked by his dog, his wife confirmed to TribLive. Nadine (Russo) Spadafora said the McKees Rocks-based boxer severed an artery in his left arm when his pit bull bit him Sunday night, which required a two-hour...
Valley grad B.J. Flenory inducted into New Hampshire’s Diversity Hall of Fame
Baron “B.B.” Flenory’s namesake is following his father’s legacy. But in a different sort of way. B.B. Flenory, the former Duquesne University basketball star whose life experiences continue to amaze, is himself amazed at the path his son, Baron “B.J.” Flenory, a former University of New Hampshire football star, has...
Pittsburgher 100 returns with larger purse at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway
The Pittsburgher 100 has been on the dirt racing calendar for 36 years, but the goal for a new ownership group at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway in Imperial is to put the event back on the map. The new owners, Blair and Tabby Cress, are doing so by making this...
Joe Como’s weight-loss strategy inspires 2 generations of runners at Norwin
Joe Como looked in the mirror and didn’t like what he saw. Como, who lives in Irwin, had reached his 40s and, as often happens to people at that age, he had started to retain some unwanted weight. So Como decided to take up running as a way to shed...
Gateway youth football teams contending for Big East Youth Football League titles
Gateway was one of only two programs in the Big East Youth Football League — Penn-Trafford was the other — to have all four of its teams make the playoffs in 2023. The Gators’ flag (ages 5-6), Termites (7-8), Mites (9-10) and Midgets (11-12) teams turned in successful regular seasons...
Plum Midget Football Association teams relish competition in return to Big East Youth Football League
The Plum Midget Football Association was on the move after the 2023 season. Playing in the Allegheny Youth Football League for the past several years, the PMFA board and coaches felt it was in the best interest of the organization to move back to the Big East Youth Football League...
Defending champions look to extend their records at annual Great Race
Jennifer Bigham won last year’s Richard S. Caliguiri City of Pittsburgh Great Race 10K for her second back-to-back triumph in eight years. One of the fastest masters runners in the country, she also won in 2016 and 2017 and finished first in 2019. Bigham’s five Great Race 10K titles are...
Valley student wins 2nd national boxing championship
Traveling from New Kensington to Downtown Pittsburgh hardly would seem like a picnic, especially by bus. “I usually come every day, weekdays and weekends,” Valley High School sophomore Gea Fultz said as she wrapped up running a warmup mile on a treadmill at the 3rd Ave. Gym, the training site...
Quebec beats Washington Wild Things for Frontier League title on walk-off homer
Anthony Quirion hit a walk-off, three-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Quebec Capitales the Frontier League championship with a 7-6 victory over the Washington Wild Things in Game 4 of the best-of-five final series Saturday night. Quebec scored five times in...
Tyler Courtney holds off Apollo’s Sye Lynch to win High Limit Commonwealth Clash at Lernerville
Saturday night’s High Limit sprint car race at Lernerville Speedway turned into a battle of survival for the leader. First it was Corey Day, who crashed while leading. Then, Brent Marks suffered a flat tire and lost the top spot. The final test, however, was left for Tyler Courtney. Courtney...
Washington Wild Things move to brink of elimination in Frontier League Championship Series
The Washington Wild Things moved to the brink of elimination with an 8-6 loss to the Quebec Capitals in Game 3 of the Frontier League Championship Series on Friday night. Washington looks to even the best-of-five set in Game 4 at 7:05 p.m. Saturday in Quebec City. The Wild Things...
Quebec jumps on Washington Wild Things to even Frontier League Championship Series
The Quebec Capitales scored seven runs in the second inning and rolled to an 11-6 victory over the Washington Wild Things in Game 2 of the Frontier League Championship Series on Wednesday night. The best-of-five series is tied 1-1. Game 3 is set for Friday night in Quebec. When Quebec...
Washington Wild Things take Game 1 in Frontier League Championship Series
The Washington Wild Things scored in five consecutive innings, including a homer by shortstop Ethan Wilder, to defeat the Quebec Capitales, 5-2, in Game 1 of the best-of-five Frontier League Championship series Tuesday night. Game 2 is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. Wednesday in Washington. Kobe Foster started and went six...
Sanctuary Boxing Club earns medals at women’s championships as gym builds momentum
The Sanctuary Boxing Club in New Kensington continued its impressive run, earning national recognition at the USA Boxing women’s championships Aug. 17-20 in Lafayette, La. Makya Wade, 10, and Kabrynna Wiley, 8, won gold, and Katie Kerecz, 12, secured a silver and won the mitt competition with coach Rich Cantolina....
On cusp of reaching UFC, Plum grad Justin Patton to fight at Brawl in the Burgh 23
Justin Patton is on a roll in his professional mixed martial arts career. The 2012 Plum graduate has won six of his last seven fights and is on the doorstep of making it to the Ultimate Fighting Championships. He faces the No. 3-ranked featherweight in Pennsylvania, Ryan Cafaro, at 247...
Washington Wild Things roar into Frontier League Championship Series
Washington Wild Things catcher Ricardo Sanchez chose to come to Southwestern Pennsylvania because liked what the team had to offer. Following two seasons with the Trois-Rivieres Aigles, Sanchez believed he had a purpose with the Wild Things. During Washington’s 10-0 win over the Lake Erie Crushers on Saturday night in...
Coliseum Combat Zone hosting MMA competition in Monroeville
The All-American Field House in Monroeville will play host to an evening of mixed martial arts competition on Sept. 14, and Allen Levine, the founder of Pittsburgh-based Coliseum Combat Zone, is excited to host what he feels will be a full evening of intense fight action. “I love promoting people...
Peters Township’s Jimmy Ellis, Franklin Regional’s Palmer Jackson bow out at U.S. Amateur
Stroke-play medalist Jimmy Ellis, a Peters Township alum, was ousted in his opening match at the 124th U.S. Amateur on Wednesday at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. Ellis, who shot 10-under 132 to take the top seed, including a 9-under 61 in his second round, was upset by...
Peters Township grad shoots 61 to take medalist honors at U.S. Amateur
Peters Township graduate Jimmy Ellis began the week with little to no expectation at the 124th U.S. Amateur Championship. Ellis, who now lives in Atlantic Beach, Fla., had to buy golf balls and a glove from the pro shop for the second round of stroke play. The stakes began to...
Texas team ends Mon Valley’s run in Pony League World Series
The Mon Valley Pony baseball team saw its Pony League World Series journey come to an end Monday morning with an 11-4 loss against Palmview, Texas, but the team left with their heads held high. Despite giving up four runs in the bottom of the sixth and entering the final...
Mon Valley storms back to advance at Pony League World Series
After the Mon Valley Pony baseball team surrendered four runs in the third inning on five walks and two hit by pitches during Sunday’s Pony League World Series elimination game against Long Beach (Calif.), it knew it had to rally immediately. So the squad showed its resiliency with two runs...
West Point’s run in Little League Softball World Series ends just short of title game
GREENVILLE, N.C. — West Point’s softball team did what no other team had done against Pitt County, the North Carolina champion, in the Little League Softball World Series. It lasted more than four innings, slowed down an offense that had produced 42 runs in three blowouts and pushed the host...
Offense carries West Point softball to brink of title-game berth in Little League World Series
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Now that the bats are warming up — along with the weather — West Point is finding its comfort zone in the Little League Softball World Series. West Point scored in each of its first three innings — highlighted by a five-run third — to oust Cranston...
Students from Allegheny Shotokan ‘Viola’ Karate Dojo headed to national team trials
Thirteen students from Allegheny Shotokan “Viola” Karate Dojo qualified to compete this fall in the World Karate Commission National Team Trials Oct. 26-Nov. 1 in Albufeira, Portugal. The local qualifiers are Cameron Klos, Gavin Bilinsky, Dryce Davis, Noelle Kravetz, Riley Evans, Aiden Johnson, Carter Griffith, Sammy Pietrzyk, Gabby Viola, Xander...
