Since I’m new to the Courier-Post, I’ll share a little of my past. I grew up 26 miles to the East of Pittsburgh in Jeannette, Pa., and in my younger years when to a lot of Penguins games at the Civic Arena. Not long after moving to the Philly area to cover the Phillies in 1996, my grandmother picked up the hottest new item in the grocery stories. Years earlier, she had bought some Mario Lemieux candy bars. (Mario played a lot better than his chocolate bar tasted.) In 1996, I added a jar of Jaromir Jagr peanut butter to my home office.
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