Aug 3, 2021
Chartiers Valley High School grad T.J. McConnell just signed a four-year contract with the Indiana Pacers. It’s worth $35.2 million.
McConnell could buy Heidelberg and declare himself king.
McConnell is definitely Pittsburgh’s highest-paid basketball player ever.
He’s also arguably Pittsburgh’s best basketball player ever.
Depends how closely you link Pete Maravich to Aliquippa. The pro and college basketball Hall-0f-Famer was born there, but played high school hoops in South Carolina. Maurice Lucas (Schenley High School, four-time NBA All-Star) merits strong consideration, too.
But McConnell is amazing by a standard seldom seen in basketball today. His highlight reel is full of steals, assists, defense and team play, not dunks and three-pointers. McConnell provides a whole different kind of spectacular. (See below.)
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Updated: 11:18 AM CST Feb 13, 2021 By WTAE This month, Hearst Television is celebrating Black history by having courageous conversations. The fight for civil rights and justice goes back generations and has looked different each decade. We’re speaking with community leaders, elders – those who have lived through victories and troubled times, to talk about their experiences, and compare them with what we still struggle with today.The halls of the Schenley High School building in a Pittsburgh neighborhood the sound of silence is the modern atmospheric setting. If you were to wind back the clock, you d hear the halls filled with students, classrooms with educators preparing future generations, and the screech of sneakers against the basketball court in the gym.The sound of silence doesn t mean the high school is empty. In fact, it still has life in it in the form of tenants. Now called Schenley Apartments, the former high school is occupied by people living in co
The Crazy Real-Life Story Of Andy Warhol Hulton Archive/Getty Images
By William J. Wright/Dec. 29, 2020 9:38 am EDT
Controversial and enigmatic, Andy Warhol was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Arguably, there is no other artist who so embraced and reflected the zeitgeist of the modern era. Beginning his career as a commercial artist, Warhol instinctively and consciously blurred the lines between art and commerce as well as good taste and bad.
Transfiguring product logos and celebrity images into works that both commented on the banality of consumer culture and celebrated its uniquely American qualities, Andy Warhol, with his famous, screen-printed soup cans and garish movie star portraits, redefined fine art for a generation. Through his Factory studio, he even changed the artist s role in creation, employing assistants to manufacture his works on a virtual assembly line.