It’s the playoffs!

2025 WPIAL girls basketball postseason outlook

Here’s a forecast of the WPIAL girls basketball playoffs, which begin Thursday and conclude Feb. 27-March 1 at Pitt’s Petersen Events Center. CLASS 6A Defending champion: Norwin No. 1 seed: Norwin Best quarterfinal game: Seneca Valley vs. Mt. Lebanon Player to watch: Rylee Kalocay, Upper St. Clair. A Kent State recruit and PUP first-team all-star as a…

2025 WPIAL boys basketball postseason outlook

Here’s a look at the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs, which begin Thursday and conclude Feb. 27-March 1 at Pitt’s Petersen Events Center. CLASS 6A Defending champion: Upper St. Clair No. 1 seed: Upper St. Clair Best first-round game: Butler vs. North Hills Player to watch: RJ Sledge, Imani Christian. Can Sledge help the Saints hammer…

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Downtown Pittsburgh tunnel work shifts light rail closure Thursday

Traffic disruptions in Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s Downtown Pittsburgh subway tunnel will shift Thursday as the agency begins the final phase of a project to replace the plinth, the concrete beam that supports light rail tracks. For this phase, the tunnel will be closed from the Steel Plaza Station to the Gateway Station until early March.…

‘He was homeless’: Once left with nowhere to go in a country new to him, 6-10 Ama Sow finds a home in Montour, flourishes on and off the court for one of the state’s top teams

Montour’s Ama Sow might be the most exciting high school basketball player to watch in all of Western Pennsylvania. He might be the very best, too. Standing 6 feet 10, Sow, a senior, has used his skills, athleticism and drive to become a double-double machine. He throws down big dunks regularly, swats away shots with…

City honors first Black opera company founded here and efforts to maintain its legacy in history exhibit

Pittsburgh has been the birthplace of many entertainment legends and firsts. The city has decided it is time to recognize an important trailblazer, the National Negro Opera Company. The company, its founder and the nonprofit working to save the house where it began will be celebrated in a display in the City-County Building, Downtown, during…

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