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Jermaine “Too Sweet” White has been named the opponent for Paul Spadafora to headline a Sept. 30 pro boxing card at the Heinz Field-VIP Tent. Spadafora (42-0-1, 17 knockouts), a former IBF lightweight champion from McKees Rocks, will fight White (17-3, 9 KOs), of Gary, Ind., in a 10-round junior welterweight bout. They share a [...]

Still not used to having Saturdays off, I went to the Pirates-Padres game at PNC Park yesterday afternoon – only to watch Phil Dumatrait and Denny Bautista combine to blow Ross Ohlendorf’s fine pitching performance. But, hey, I got a free hat! What’s interesting is that, as a college football writer, I spent so much [...]

When I posted on facebook that my job description was changing from Pitt football beat writer to a sports enterprise role that includes a weekly column, one Trib reader wondered what the heck that meant. Your guess is as good as mine. And I mean that in all sincerity. Instead of knowing exactly what my [...]

One of the most rewarding perks of covering high school football is getting to know families and following their children’s careers through college and beyond. I got the idea for this column through a conversation with Ray Doria Saturday at Pauline Park in Beechview while covering Penguins president David Morehouse’s day with the Stanley Cup.

My first column for the Trib centered on the impact high school football had on my life. In it, I mentioned plans to follow the career of my cousin, Nick Marshall, a sophomore running back for Bethel Park. He made his varsity debut Friday night at Kiski Area – I couldn’t go because I was [...]

At Pitt’s first news conference of the football season, I asked Dave Wannstedt a Beano Cook-esque question: After assembling a team of his own recruits, how many players from Wannstedt’s first Pitt team and how many from this team could have started for the University of Miami’s 1987 national champions? Predictably, Wannstedt avoided answering the [...]