Flynn caps winning career

After coaching the Grove City High School girls basketball team for the last 27 years, Roger Flynn has decided to retire.
His 531 wins at Grove City are tops in county history and second only to Farrell's Eddie McCluskey. Flynn's overall record stands at 531-201. His teams won 20 or more games 14 times and they won 14 Mercer County Athletic Conference titles, three District 10 championships and four D-10 runners up, while making four appearances in the PIAA Western Region finals.
Flynn also served for 10 years as a varsity assistant football coach, 15 years as an assistant baseball coach, 18 years as eighth grade girls basketball coach and eight years as the ninth grade boys coach. He has been associated with the Grove City Schools for 37 years and most of those years he has been coaching.
And Flynn is a top-notch athlete in his own right, whenever and however he found time to compete.
Grove City certainly is going to miss the time, talent and wisdom he put forth in helping to make Grove City High School one of the top-flight programs in Mercer County.
Harris takes over
Grove City College has finally found a replacement for former women's basketball coach, Melissa Lamie, who stepped down following the 2005-06 season after 13 years in the position. In those 13 seasons, she compiled a record of 157-171. However, the last 11 years, she showed a record of 153-129.
Lamie's replacement will be Sarah Harris, a Wheaton (Ill.) College graduate who has spent the past two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. UNC-Greensboro is a member of the NCAA Division I Southern Conference. The new GCC coach helped the Spartans to an 18-12 record and a berth in the finals of the Southern Conference tournament in 2005-06.
At Wheaton, Harris was a four-year letterman, a three-year starter and a two-year captain. During her playing days, she helped the Thunder win the Collegiate Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) title in both her sophomore and senior years.
Tale of two cities
Good things have happened to defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers.
First, coach Bill Cowher and his wife, Kaye, purchase a $2.5 million, 1.55 acre home in Raleigh, N.C. The Raleigh area has a little sentimental value for the Cowhers since Bill played football at North Carolina State while Kaye was a basketball player there. They also own a home in Pittsburgh. The Cowhers will divide their time between the two cities.
Now don't get upset. Cowher has no intentions of leaving his Steeler post. He still has two years remaining on his contract and the Steeler coach, now 48, says he's taking things "one year at a time."
Cowher, who led the Steelers to their fifth Super Bowl Championship in February, will not speculate as to when he will retire. The Steelers' front office is not concerned with any retirement talk since there hasn't been any. They believe he's firmly entrenched and will remain in his present status for some time.
The Steelers will launch the 2006 NFL season at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7 by playing host to the Miami Dolphins. This should be a good barometer for the Steelers as the Dolphins proved to a a tough customer last season, compiling a 9-7 record. The contest will be aired by NBC, which has taken over one of the prime-time television packages. ESPN will handle the Monday night package.