Some Pittsburgh City League teams likely will be competing in the WPIAL next year, but not in football or basketball. The City League applied for associate membership to the WPIAL for four schools in some sports. But the City League will remain intact and not join the WPIAL for football, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls volleyball, boys and girls track and field and wrestling. (12/14/2011)

The conventional thinking is that a top high school baseball player in Western Pennsylvania should consider playing at colleges in the south. The weather is warm there just about all of the collegiate season, teams there usually play more games and school's in the south produce more professional prospects. (11/23/2011)

Robert "Red" Locke despised "small ball." As Bishop Canevin High School's baseball coach for 19 years, he developed a belief that the way to success wasn't through bunting and base running. "He would call it ping-pong ball," said John Meyer, sportscaster at WTAE-TV and a former player under Mr. Locke. (10/28/2011)

While some teens spent their summer relaxing, a group of Pine-Richland baseball players combined their love of the sport with their desire to serve. (09/15/2011)

Joe Colella, who coached Hopewell High School and Hopewell American Legion baseball teams for almost 50 years, died Sunday. He was 80. (09/13/2011)