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The 1976 National Champion Pitt Panthers. David Finoli.

  The 1976 National Champion Pitt Panthers.     David Finoli. Miracle on Cardiac Hill.      It is not often that fans get to see their favorite college football team win a championship.    It is even more extraordinary when that happens during the first year of ever attending games for your favorite college football team.     Well, that was exactly my experience in the fall of 1976, as a 9-year-old, when I was afforded the great luxury and opportunity with my family to attend University of Pittsburgh football games that season for the first time.      It was a historical season for many reasons but also an exciting time for sports in western Pennsylvania as the Pittsburgh Steelers were winning super bowls and the Pittsburgh Pirates were regular contenders for the National League pennant.     Author David Finoli explains how the local University captured some of that Esprit De corps in hi...
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Walking Miracle. Ryan Shazier with Larry Platt.

Walking Miracle.    Ryan Shazier with Larry Platt. How faith, positive thinking, and passion for football brought me back from paralysis….and helped me find purpose.      Athletes love and play the game of football for a variety of reasons including the action, passion for the game, physicality, camaraderie with teammates and coaches as well as the accolades that go with winning along with performance at high levels among their peers.     Of course, with all of this comes risk of injury.     All the aforementioned is what happened to former Pittsburgh Steeler linebacker Ryan Shazier including the life changing injury, unfortunately, which brought his life to a crashing halt.      However, through struggles, the support of many, including a home team fan base, helped turn a very tumultuous time in his life into a positive.     Through all of the toiling, uncertainty and turmoil in the nascent ...
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We Will Rise. Steve Beaven.

    We Will RISE.    Steve Beaven   A true story of tragedy and resurrection in the American heartland. Author and writer Steve Beaven takes on a powerful and sensitive story that happened more than four decades ago in his book We Will Rise.     The book covers the unfortunate tragedy that took place in Evansville, Indiana in 1977 impacting the members of the basketball team, their families, and the community at-large. A surprisingly obscure story that is reminiscent of what happened earlier in the decade with the Marshall University football squad.    One major difference is that story developed into a major movie "We are Marshall " featuring Matthew McConaughey as a newly hired coach trying to literally rebuild a football team.      In this case the tragedy enveloped the basketball program in the mid-December flight headed to Middle Tennessee State University for their next game. The first 90 pages or so cove...
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