The Uniontown Red Raiders have a glorious basketball history with 19 players with 1,000 points in their career. Jordan Pratt who was a standout for the Red Raiders is on that list. Pratt got an early start playing basketball. “I started playing when I was a kid,” Pratt reported. “I ...
PITTSBURGH – They call it March Madness for a reason and a night at PPG Paints Arena showed why. Meet Jack Gohlke and DJ Burns Jr. everyone. No offense to Kiss’s Paul Stanley, but those two were rock stars on this night. Pittsburgh welcomed the NCAA men’s basketball tournament to ...
A lot of prognosticators are talking about what a wide open field this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament has, how there are so many different teams that could make a run through the brackets. It’s true, this year may be a bit like 2023 when the unlikely trio of Miami, San Diego ...
Over the past two basketball seasons the Uniontown Red Raiders have faced the formidable Lincoln Park Leopards three times in the PIAA and WPIAL playoffs. Last season the Raiders were downed by the Leopards in the PIAA tournament, 85-64, on their way to a Class 4A state championship. This ...
Western Pennsylvania sports fans were saddened by the passing of a legend from a bygone era when Lou “Bimbo” Cecconi died on Feb. 24 at Paramount Senior Living Care in Bethel Park at the age of 95. In an era before SportsCenter and the internet Cecconi was a full-fledged star going back ...
Geibel Catholic High School has a rich basketball history and one of the best to suit up for the Gators was big man Dave Timko who was a stalwart during the early 1980s. Timko got an early start in basketball. “I started early. My first recollection was shooting through a tire rim screwed ...
