Mark your calendar—the City League Championship Basketball Game is airing on PCTV, Comcast Channel 21 and Verizon Channel 47, tomorrow afternoon. If you are not within the city limits, you can watch online.
It’s ladies first! At 3 p.m., Pittsburgh Allderdice will face off against Pittsburgh Westinghouse. At 9 p.m., the boys will take to the court.
When the girls basketball team was cut from Charlotte Murphy’s Pittsburgh school last year, the then 4th grader told the superintendent that the cut went against Title IX. For the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the law that prohibits schools from discriminating on the basis of sex, host Michel Martin talks to Murphy and Superintendent Linda Lane.
Eleven-year-old Charlotte Murphy found that out for herself last year when her girls’ basketball team at Linden Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was cut. Miss Murphy felt that wasn’t fair because the boys’ team wasn’t cut, but the then fourth grader refused to take the decision lying down, or on the bench.
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On Wednesday, January 18th Pittsburgh Brashear student and wrestling star Godwin Nyama received the Allegheny General Hosptial Sports Medicine Extra Effort Award. Throughout the school year, KDKA News honors high school students who excel, not only in the classroom — but on the field or court and in the community with the Allegheny General Hospital Sports Medicine Extra Effort Award! Be sure to check out the segment scheduled to air on KDKA News Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 6:45 pm.
See a video of our most recent winners of the Extra Effort Awards Pittsburgh Milliones football here.
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The voting ends at 9:00 P.M, Thursday Jan 5, 2012, with the winner announced on Friday.
Nyama became the first-ever City League wrestler to win a title at the Powerade Chrsitmas Tournament, winning the 120-pound title with a 6-3 win over Blair Academy’s P.J. Klee.
&raqou; Check out all of this week’s Army STRONG Wrestling finalists here
» Vote via email for Godwin here
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