Linda Hudkins is a retired journalist who wrote for decades, and she recalls as a young woman how she reacted to the death of President...

… and Maz’s homer is still the greatest ever As a 13-year-old on Oct. 13, 1960, I was an eighth-grader at St. Brigid’s School in Lilly,...

Father Jonas McCarthy, TOR, a Franciscan marvel who taught me a great lesson about the power of prayer [A version of this appeared on my...

Joe and Franco did not get along well -- but Chuck Noll and Franco did … new book discusses the friction When I was an undergraduate at...

Ten years ago, in the fall of 2012, I met one of the most fascinating and inspirational students of my four decades in education. I have...

Remembering Larry Senko, St. Francis football player whom I recruited in 1985 and who was living the American Dream until terrorists...

RIP: Frank Cignetti 1937-2022 … lymphoid granulomatosis discovered at the age of 40 When the legendary Coach Bobby Bowden left West...

Bill Mazeroski trying on his Hall of Fame coat … and Bonds does not belong Imagine how good the Pirates were a century ago. Names like...

… had to do his chores before practice On a football field 55 years ago, I first met Bob Mardula. He had never played football before...

The Catholic Church would be dramatically different today had he lived Had Pope John Paul I not died in 1978, the Roman Catholic Church...

Note: I need a photo of Joey D if anyone can help … DeAntonio will enter Mount Aloysius’ Hall of Fame So few people in the 21st Century...

Competing with the Terps … took for granted playing girls’ basketball As a young girl, she yearned to play competitive basketball — and...

Frank Stossel 50 years after the championship … Looking back, you realize what a singular experience being a Raider was. The Lilly...

… Spiegelman’s book is spell-binding, gut-wrenching This is one of the books that fanatical parents are banning from schools around the...

… “I have no water in there” Well, starting on my way back to Pennsylvania, things appeared to be going well. My bag was one pound over...

… prayer before games was not a controversy When I first started coaching, the team was the Lilly Raiders. I knew nothing about coaching...

… championship number 5 The Lilly Raiders won their fifth championship in 1972 in fine fashion. After tying St. Joe’s of Portage in the...

RIP: David Kay, who was honest … Americans committed war crimes for Iraq Earlier this week, a man who went from a distinguished academic...

Roughly half of U.S. adults, aged 16 to 74 years old — 54% or 130 million people — lack literacy proficiency —U.S. Department of...

Lilly Raiders, 1967, Champions of the Cambria County Grade School Football League Last year, we had a start to some Lilly Raider football...