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Running backs make a comeback in the NFL
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PAUL NEWBERRY Associated Press 
Apr 29, 2023
ATLANTA (AP) — It was once the glamour spot of the NFL, a position manned by giants of the game, dynamic players who drew more eyeballs than even the ...
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Sidney Crosby will always be a Penguin, right?
Columns, Local Sports, Pro
RON COOK Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS 
Apr 24, 2023
PITTSBURGH — A partial list of Hall of Famers who left their original team after achieving greatness: Michael Jordan. Tom Brady. Joe Montana. Johnny U...
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Gray, Francis make shared history at O-E
Basketball, Big 30, Columns, ...
JP BUTLER Special to the Era 
Apr 22, 2023
Their paths were inextricably linked from, quite literally, the first day of the season until the last. Shawn Gray and Derrick Francis opened their 20...
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Draft mockery; Beane facing toughest test
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Apr 19, 2023
A week from today the NFL will conduct its 88th stuffily-named Player Selection Meeting — what we commoners call The Draft — over three days in Kansas...
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No competition, but no guarantees at QB either
College Sports, Columns, Football, ...
DONNIE COLLINS The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa./TNS 
Apr 18, 2023
STATE COLLEGE — It’s so clearly stupid to judge anything based on a spring scrimmage. Anything can be staged to look any way a coach might want it to,...
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Just fishing
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
WADE ROBERTSON 
Apr 13, 2023
Sometimes, I’m even surprised how much I enjoy fishing. There’s just something about it that’s soul soothing. Several streams in our area have large s...
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Pickett predicting ‘big jump in year two’
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JOHN LUCIEW pennlive.com/TNS 
Apr 10, 2023
In his rookie season, Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett saved his best for last. He made NFL history with back-to-back come-from-behind-wins to close...
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McCutchen means the world to Pittsburgh
Baseball, Columns, Local Sports, ...
JOE STARKEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS 
Apr 07, 2023
Nothing felt right about Andrew McCutchen’s final home game here, likely because it wasn’t clear if it was his final home game here. The date was Sept...
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Transfer portal has changed college game
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Apr 05, 2023
So what do we make of the just-completed Division I men’s and women’s college basketball seasons? And, more to the point, how were they impacted by th...
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Diaz seeks more in final track season
Columns, High School, Local Sports, ...
JEFF UVEINO juveino@bradfordera.com 
Mar 30, 2023
Manny Diaz has quite the résumé. District 9 championships. A PIAA medal. Numerous Bradford High records. After all the senior has accomplished, it wou...
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Bills’ Kadish dies; updating free agency
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Mar 28, 2023
It seems more and more sports personalities from my youth are passing away, and they remind me of each of our mortalities, especially when it’s somebo...
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COTA yet another sloppy NASCAR road course race
Columns, National Sports, Pro
JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer 
Mar 28, 2023
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kimi Raikkonen couldn’t get over how many restarts there were in the waning laps of NASCAR’s first road course race of the seas...
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