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Robertson: Berry picking time
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WADE ROBERTSON 
Aug 10, 2023
There goes that sneaky time again, slipping by, invisible, but always seemingly picking up speed and surprising you with its rapid passage. July is go...
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Loons: Call of the North
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WADE ROBERTSON 
Aug 03, 2023
The orange-red sun touched the Western horizon, a glowing furnace setting the clouds alight in a scarlet grow, the white flecked clouds afire, deep co...
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Angry NFL running backs can’t handle the truth
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JOE STARKEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS 
Jul 21, 2023
PITTSBURGH — Wow, did ESPN’s Matt Miller touch a nerve. And all he did was express an opinion that reflects the sensible thinking of most NFL teams th...
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Robertson: Fishing line thoughts
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WADE ROBERTSON 
Jul 20, 2023
The still waters glimmered slate gray in color as dawn slowly drained the darkness from the sky. It was just cool enough that a light jacket was neces...
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The David Bednar dilemma: waste him or deal him
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RON COOK Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS 
Jul 18, 2023
Another loss Sunday, this one 8-4 in 10 innings to the San Francisco Giants, completing a miserable weekend at PNC Park. That makes 44 losses in the p...
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ROBERTSON: Pickerel
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WADE ROBERTSON 
Jul 13, 2023
Though I was very young in those days, I still remember traveling to our favorite summer vacation spots. Time moves slowly in those early years and th...
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Pirates need more from Reynolds and Hayes
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RON COOK Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS 
Jul 13, 2023
It’s easy to say Roansy Contreras and Luis Ortiz are the two biggest disappointments of the Pirates’ season. Contreras opened the season in the rotati...
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Bona beats BC and the end of a dream season
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JP BUTLER Special to the Era 
Jun 28, 2023
(Editor’s note: Following is the third in a three-part series on the great 1967-68 St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, about which members of that ...
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Robertson: Kahr pistols
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WADE ROBERTSON 
Jun 22, 2023
Today the fertile imaginations and genius of firearms inventors has produced a dizzying array of pistols. They come in in many calibers, shapes and si...
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Memphis should move on from Morant
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HUNTER O. LYLE hlyle@thebradfordera.com 
Jun 17, 2023
Tyreke Evans, O.J. Mayo, Richard Dumas and Donald Sterling all have a few things in common. Two of those similarities are that they were all involved ...
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Era columnist wins state recognition
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Jun 16, 2023
The Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association held its annual meeting in State College earlier this year. A great opportunity for state writers to meet...
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