Aaron Smith

SOMERSET — The team of Al Wheeler, Bob Smith and Bernice Hoctor combined to scatter 2,015 pins for first place honors in senior bowling Friday at Terrace Lanes Bowling Center.   Second place (1,931) was won by the team of Mickey Talley, Linda...

  BEDFORD — During the past seven years, the District 5 Athletic Director's Association has awarded 28 total scholarships, totaling $21,000 to deserving District 5 student athletes.    Proceeds from the annual District 5 All-Star Basketball...

Shanksville 74, Salisbury 15   SHANKSVILLE —  The Shanksville Vikings defeated Salisbury 74-15 in boys junior high basketball action Tuesday.   The Vikings had four players scoring double digits with Adam Strucky leading the contingency with...

BERLIN — Berlin outlasted Conemaugh Township to capture the championship of the girls division of the 2013 Berlin Mountaineer Junior High Basketball Tournament.   Claire Spochart's game-high 16 points and Geordan Hay's 11 points paced the Lady...

Yes There is a good chance that at some point this year Pittsburgh's center/quarterback exchange will be between guys named Legursky and Gradkowski. Not the star-studded, yet oft-inured combination — Maurkice Pouncey and Ben Roethlisberger...

Is this the year their aging defense finally kicks the bucket? How will they survive without the face of the defense in the huddle every Sunday? Can they get their once-feared pass rush back? Sound familiar? Since they reported for training camp in...

LATROBE (AP) — The most famous hair in football is now flecked with more than a few strands of gray, and Troy Polamalu knows it.   Entering his 10th season, the perennial All-Pro Pittsburgh Steelers safety talks openly about being closer to the...

LATROBE (AP) — Jerricho Cotchery hears "the voice." Troy Polamalu senses the "phantom leadership."   It's all part of the Steelers Way.   Few organizations boast the stability and winning tradition of the Steelers. Try just three coaches in 43...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger likens offensive coordinator Todd Haley's versatile playbook to learning a new language.   Time to see how fluent the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback — and the rest of his teammates — have become....

RICHLAND TOWNSHIP — Bobby Varner threw an abbreviated two-hit shutout as Richland blanked Portage 10-0 in five innings to clinch the Cambria County American Legion's eighth and final baseball playoff berth on Monday.   Varner walked two and struck...

Somerset finishes 2-3 BRIDGEPORT, W.Va — The Somerset Post 181 American Legion baseball team wrapped up play in the Hillbilly Hardball Classic with two wins and three losses. The Businessmen dropped a pair of tournament games on Saturday,...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The somewhat crude white sheet of paper taped to the top of Casey Hampton's locker said "Coach Hamp."   And it was not the veteran nose tackle's idea.   Then again, considering what Hampton's doing these days, it's an apt job...