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Published: Aug 23, 2025 at 01:18 AM
“The pressure’s high. Just to stay alive. Cause the heat is on.”
The smash hit ‘The Heat Is On’ by Glenn Frey could very well be categorized as the Penn State theme song this season, with expectations...
Published: Aug 23, 2025 at 01:18 AM
With Aaron Nola returning, do the Phillies have enough pitching to win the World Series?
That was a poll question posed recently to followers of the Times News Lehighton Facebook page.
Apparently, mos...
Published: Aug 23, 2025 at 01:17 AM
It’s not often that editorial comment comes at the very start of this column, but it’s essential that it does so today. For you’re about to read about an incident that occurred on a supercharged bicyc...
Published: Aug 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I was once the hunter. Now I’m the hunted.
Yours Truly will defend his 2024 Bob Ford Grid Picks Cup championship against nine of the best football minds the Times News has to offer. My name has been ...
Published: Aug 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Do you remember Harvey’s Wallbangers?
No, it wasn’t the drink, although maybe you have tried one.
Instead, they were one of baseball’s one-tear wonders and it was the name given to the 1982 Milwauke...
Published: Aug 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Quick Quiz: Who was the last Phillie to be a league MVP?
Quick Answer: It was Bryce Harper in 2021. Harper hit .309 with 35 homers, 84 RBIs, had a league-high 42 doubles, a .615 slugging percentage, a...
Published: Aug 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Fans have been clamoring for prospects Andrew Painter and Justin Crawford to join the big league club for a while now.
Phillies president Dave Dombrowski had predicted Painter would join the team som...
Published: Aug 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It’s official ... the NFL is back!
And it hasn’t taken the league to inundate us with a flurry of preseason games outlets, primarily the NFL Network.
You are always anxious to see some of your team’s...
Published: Aug 08, 2025 at 11:11 PM
For one day in the South, baseball was king.
Living here for the past four years, I can attest that football is the overwhelming majority of any sport, and baseball — pro, not college — is in the mini...
Published: Aug 08, 2025 at 11:11 PM
If Palmerton were not the Gateway to the Poconos but just miles away from the Pyrenees or the Alps, there’d be a pretty good chance you’d watch way too much pro cycling instead of way too much pro foo...