So how many out there thought the Steelers would be sitting at 8-2 so far this season? I didn’t. I know many of you didn’t either. It’s OK, you can admit it. The success, I’ll take it though, and I’ll...

The pickins’ are getting slimmer as we’re down to the nitty gritty of the WPIAL football season. While there are fewer games involving local teams, the importance of those games grows as we get closer...

Belle Vernon’s Bill Contz went from the Mon Valley to Happy Valley. He then ascended to the summit of football’s Mt. Everest, playing at the peak of the sport in the NFL. When asked for a career highl...

2013 • After facing a string of tough foes, Cal U will be playing winless Seton Hill Saturday. It’s the first-ever conference matchup between the two teams. The Vulcans are in a three-way tie for seco...

The DeBerardinis family, featured in last week’s Sports Stew, had yet another member who had a successful basketball career. Chris DeBerardinis – the son of Paul– who was a 6-1 guard for Mon Valley Ca...

2014 • Sunday – no paper 2004 • Horrendous rains hit the area in the wake of Hurricane Ivan. The Belle Vernon Area-Laurel Highlands game was one of only three games of the 56 contests scheduled to be ...

Many Valley sports tales are so detailed, they can’t be squeezed into one article. As radio legend Paul Harvey put it, “Here’s the rest of the story.” More information, making up a tasty leftover stew...

2013 • The longest winning streak at the beginning of the season for the Monessen boys soccer team has ended at seven. The Greyhounds dropped their first game of the season Tuesday at Beth-Center 3-0 ...

As I was sitting among friends watching the Monessen- Serra Catholic football game Friday night, someone checking their cell phone said Belle Vernon Area was losing to then-winless McKeesport, 28-0 (t...

2013 • It hasn’t happened very often this season, but the Monessen boys found themselves down a goal in their non-section tilt with McKeesport. That didn’t last long though, as the Greyhounds scored f...

2013 • The Belle Vernon Area Middle School soccer team remained unbeaten in 10 games by defeating Yough, 11-0. Leading the way for the Leps with two goals was Matt Wobrak. Jackson Guess, Logan Perez, ...

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a story about the athletic career of Monongahela’s Bob Adkins. Bob Adkins went from a WPIAL football title to the campus of Washington & Jefferson, and his hi...

2013 • For the second straight Section 4-AAA soccer contest, the Ringgold girls soccer team played without seven players. And for the second straight game, the Rams won, defeating Albert Gallatin, 6-0...

2013 • Monessen continued its unbeaten start in Section 4-A boys soccer with a 6-2 win over host Chartiers- Houston. The Greyhounds, who have scored 28 goals and given up only five all season, set a n...

2013 • A year ago, the injury-ridden Monessen soccer team showed occasional flashes of potential but injuries kept them from being successful. This year it’s a different story for the Greyhounds. They...

What do you think is the biggest topic of discussion to come out of Sunday’s 18-10 Steelers win over Atlanta? Could it be Chris Boswell, who accounted for all of the Steelers scoring with a 6-for-6 da...

2013 • Monessen’s boys soccer team extended its history- making start with a 2-1 victory over Section 4A foe California Area. Monessen got on the scoreboard when Josh Kucmeroski scored off a pass from...

Last week’s top game was delayed and never resumed. Here’s hoping we don’t have to deal with that again in Week 2. Reading social media in the past week, some folks in McKeesport are a littl testy aft...

2013 • Luke Doptis recorded a hat trick and Blair Madison added a tally to keep the Monessen boys soccer team undefeated in the young season in Section 4-1A with a 4-2 win over visiting Washington. Th...

Finally, are you ready for some NFL football this week? Are you ready for some food for thought right now? Here goes nothing … • After two weeks, Monessen’s football team is among the WPIAL leaders in...