On Monday night was game two of the first round in the NBA Playoffs. The game featured the defending champs, Golden State Warriors, and the Sacramento Kings. Entering this game, Golden State was trailing 1-0 in the series which got the Kings their first playoff win since 2006. Now let’s get to the point. With…
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Penguins Playoff Streak, Longest In All 4 Major Sports, Comes To An End
Let’s go all the way to 2003 before the Pittsburgh Penguins had star names such as Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, and, of course last but not certainly not least, Sidney Crosby. If you were a Penguins fan in 2003-2004 you’d be thrilled just to see your team in the playoffs. But in 2023, expectations…
2023 March Madness: UConn Wins Wild NCAA Tournament
The 2023 March Madness winner is 4-seed UConn, and they dominated their path to being champions. In the final 4 they played 5-seed Miami, who didn’t stand much of a chance. The final score was 72-59, a blowout. In the championship they played 5-seed San Diego St, who beat 9-seed Florida Atlantic University, a…
2023 March Madness: Broken Brackets Everywhere
The first week of March Madness has gone by, and it was a crazy weekend. For pretty much every student who made a bracket, they entered school on Monday needing a second-chance start. Junior Atticus Kardell had a UCLA vs Baylor championship game, and is better then most because #2 UCLA remains in the competition….
Girls’ Swimming 2023 Wrap Up
Despite losing several strong seniors last year, the Avonworth/Northgate Girls’ swim team continues a tradition of excellence. “I think they definitely felt a piece of that [the graduating seniors] missing, but obviously it’s evidenced by their levels of success that they carried the torch pretty well,” says Avonworth’s athletic director Andrea Patton. The girls’ swim…
The Steelers 2023 Free Agency: B+ from Jack
The 2023-2024 free agency as started as a hit, as we saw many signings for Pittsburgh Steelers during the legal tampering period and start of free agency in March. Here’s a list of who left and who came to the black and gold, including a few that returned., who came, and who stayed with the…
2023 March Madness: Journalism Classes Pick Brackets
Members of Journalism 1, pictured above and below, and Journalism 2 picked their NCAA Men’s and Women’s Tournament Brackets leading up to the start on Thursday, March 16th. Here’s the championship game and bottom two brackets, picked hastily by the class:
2023 March Madness: Pitt V Penn State Rivalry On the Bubble
For Penn State and Pitt fans, they have one more chance to clash it out on social media. Which team will be playing in the March Madness tournament later this month? Pitt fans know the team is seeded 5th in the ACC tournament, so it’s more of a shock if the team doesn’t…
2023 March Madness: PSU Upsets #21 Maryland Before Big 10 Tourney
Any Penn State fan that is in high school right now has not had a chance to watch PSU in the NCAA tournament ever, since the team last appeared in 2011. With a record of 19-12, the Nittany Lions hopes for the NCAA tournament have increased tremendously, after picking up two straight wins against ranked…
Freshman Wrestler Among 2 On Team To Reach Regionals
Freshman Auston Kosenovich joined junior Luke Hollywood at Altoona High School in March to compete in the PIAA regionals for wrestling. Auston suggested it takes time to adjust in wrestling, which he started at 6 years old. This includes the shift from middle school to high school wrestling, and he finds it important to trust…