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Sites and times for all 16 WPIAL basketball semifinal games have been released by the league for the games Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Final Four fields have been set for the WPIAL basketball playoffs, and all eight top seeds have reached the semifinals. Here are the matchups for Tuesday and Wednesday. Half of the sites and times have been released.

Four basketball classifications have reached the Final Four, with the biggest surprises coming in boys Class AAA, where No. 11 seed West Mifflin and No. 12 seed West Allegheny have slipped into the semifinals to join No. 1 Chartiers Valley and No. 2 Hampton.

The WPIAL basketball playoffs have reached the quarterfinals, and already we’ve seen our share of outstanding performances. And after Wednesday night, add Blackhawk guard Rachel Curtiss to that list. South Park kept sending her to the foul line and the senior never missed during Blackhawk’s double-overtime victory, 69-62, in a Class AAA first round game at Moon.

New Butler football coach Jim Rankin wasn’t kidding when he said the other day that he wasn’t looking forward to competing against his colleagues in the Quad North. What a collection of coaching legends! Of the seven coaches in the conference, all but two — Don Holl at Seneca Valley and Mark Soboleski at Erie [...]

George Smith didn’t say much to the public in his 28 years as McKeesport’s football coach, and now we know why: He saved his most important remarks for the end of his career. Frustrated and disappointed by the McKeesport School District’s reluctance to address specific issues within the football program, Smith told administrators Jan. 25 that he [...]

Mt. Lebanon survived … barely … the first round of the Class AAAA boys WPIAL playoffs.

Former North Allegheny coach Jim Rankin, who was hired Monday as Butler’s new football coach, doesn’t have warm and fuzzy feelings when he thinks about returning to the Quad North Conference, where he spent nearly two decades.

A challenger for the Mt. Lebanon boys team emerges as the first round of the WPIAL boys and girls basketball playoffs continues.

It’s not March, but the first day of the WPIAL basketball playoffs could certainly qualify as madness. Forty-five preliminary- and first-round games of the boys and girls WPIAL basketball playoffs tip off Saturday at 12 high schools across the area. Since the historic snowfall that hit the region this month pushed back the playoff start [...]