… 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...

RIP David McCullough, 1933-2022 … created a form of “narrative non-fiction” At the age of 27, Pittsburgh native David McCullough was a...

Sammy Chapman with his mother, Dr. Laura Berman …corporations have no free-speech rights I am a serious free speech, first amendment...

... how I changed my mind about this decision because of history Reprint from 2019: President Harry Truman made the correct decision to...

Irving entering courthouse during his trial: The most “fabulous hoax of the 20th Century” Allenwood was a “country-club prison, where all...

Personal recollections from 1984 to 2022 … not just a coach, but a true role model Everyone who knows basketball Coach Tom McConnell has...

The show was iconic, but Tony Dow suffered immensely after it ended For some of us who came of age in the 1950s and 60s, “Leave it to...

Reprint from 2013 Yet he could not meet with the president in the White House after winning the gold. Jesse Owens received a ticker tape...

Much of my reading now is dictated by the students whom I am tutoring. Most of them are reading from their school’s summer reading list....