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You didn’t hear Terry Smith apologize did you? Nope, and why should he? With the four-week WPIAL playoff tournament not set to begin until next Friday, Smith, the hugely successful Gateway coach, pretty much said: Why bother? Actually, he wasn’t that blatant, but he appeared to have his thumb squarely on the pulse of the [...]

No one at Hopewell can solve a complicated physics problem better or quicker than football coach Dave Vestal, who teaches the subject at the high school. So how you do figure this? His formula for winning football is ridiculously simple: Hand off to the running backs as often as possible. And then when you think [...]

Coach Clair Altemus has been to Heinz Field and Hershey for championship games with his Pine-Richland football team. Those games were special, but the look in his eye Thursday night after the Rams upset fourth-ranked North Allegheny, 24-20, was something else. Pine-Richland, the smallest school in Class AAAA in terms of enrollment, scored with 17 [...]

Look out for Penn Hills, the once and future giant of the WPIAL. The Indians came into their Thursday Night Lights game against Central Catholic with a 2-3 record, which might have been considered the overall biggest surprise of the high school football season. With stars such as run-stuffing linebacker Dan Mason, who looks like [...]