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Golf has seen numerous rules changes implemented this year, and the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association will be conducting 10 Rules of Golf Workshops over the next three months explaining the 31 major changes. These workshops are to help educate golfers on the changes. All WPGA members are welcomed unless noted....

Each year, the Tri-State PGA Section recognizes the top contributors to its organization and the district golf community. Award winners for this year were announced this week. They are as follows: Golf Professional of the Year: Tom Beeder, Grandview Golf Club Teacher of the Year: Chuck Scally, Scally’s Golf Center...

Boxing fans might want to head to Millvale on Feb. 23. Ray Schafer Boxing Association will present Road to Nationals Golden Glove Boxing at VFW Post 118 on 605 North Ave. Sharpsburg’s Jose Caraballo, a trainer and former boxer, is promoting the event. “One of the reasons we’re holding it...

Freeport eighth-grader Drew Furer developed a friendship with Kenny Pickett as he spent time at Children’s Hospital recovering from a spinal cord disorder last spring, and the Pitt quarterback made sure he was there for Furer’s comeback. Pickett dropped by Freeport’s Junior Jacket Classic junior high basketball tournament Saturday to...

Franklin Park auto racer Kris Wright recently faced the biggest test of his career. Wright, 24, competed in the Rolex 24 at Daytona race Jan. 24-27 in Daytona Beach, Fla. His first endurance race, it lasted 24 hours over two days at the Daytona International Speedway circuit. Wright drove the...

Mike DeMark occasionally pitched during his playing days at Penn-Trafford, but his knuckleball wasn’t enough to become a regular part of the Warriors rotation. Not that DeMark minded. He preferred hitting, and his abilities in the batter’s box got him to perennial Division III power Marietta. But after a year,...

A former St. Joseph boys basketball standout will get a shining moment on professional football’s biggest night. Chris Conroy, a 2005 St. Joseph graduate, is starring in a Super Bowl commercial for Mercedes Benz’s A-Class model. In the ad, which was posted online Thursday and is titled “Say The Word,”...

Cheswick natives and brothers Miles and Mario Liberati carved out different careers in hockey. Miles is a professional player in the ECHL, and Mario works on the business side. A few weeks ago, their careers came together. Mario received a job offer with 85 Sports Management, a startup hockey player...

The Brentwood girls youth basketball program has experienced steady growth. Started in 2013-14 by varsity coach Rachel Thomas, the youth program consists of 35 players in grades 3 through eight and 10 volunteer coaches this year. “I restarted this program — we call it the Brentwood Girls Winter League —...

It took one trip to Pittsburgh for Shai Maaravi to be hooked. Traveling with the Canada Israel Hockey School as an assistant coach, Maaravi and his team from Israel were brought to Pittsburgh in 2015 as part of Emily Pressman’s Bat Mitzvah project. Stacey Pressman, Emily’s mom, said Emily always...

Indoor football has failed twice in Pittsburgh, but that isn’t stopping hip-hop artist Antjuan Washington from trying to revive it. “I’m living out part of a childhood dream,” said Washington, head coach and part owner of the Burgh Defenders, an expansion team that plans to play this year in the...

Antonio Brown, the greatest wide receiver in Steelers history … Hold on a minute. It seems to have become a requirement to include the declaration that Brown is the Steelers’ greatest receiver ever in any story about his most recent immature, narcissistic, selfish, stupid behavior. If you’d like to make...

Gateway ice hockey alumni from five decades gathered recently at Center Ice Arena in Delmont to celebrate an athletic tradition and to honor three past Gators greats. Corey Perhac (2010), Shawn Jesih (1996) and Joe Kasper (2007) were recognized with induction onto the Gateway Hockey Honor Roll. They are the...

After a string of second- and third-place finishes, Franklin Park junior tennis player Ava Catanzarite ended the year on top. Catanzarite, 16, and her partner, Avery Durham, of South Carolina, took first place in girls 16 doubles at the U.S. Tennis Association National Winter Championships on Dec. 29-Jan. 4 at...

Terrelle Pryor has given back to a number of causes during his professional football career. He paid for his high school football team’s banquet last season and also helped Jeannette deter some of the cost for its championship rings. The NFL free agent wide receiver and his Terrelle Pryor Family...

A couple of weeks into the season, Jamie Mauro said Slippery Rock hockey coach Dave Grimm broke the news to him that he was leading all of ACHA Division I in scoring. Since then curiosity has got to Mauro, so he checks the ACHA website every now and then to...