
John Santa
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Pittsburgh Union Progress sports reporter, on strike from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Husband of an educator. Father of a Wild Thing.
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PUP recruiting notebook: With 52 offers and a top-30 national ranking, Quaker Valley’s Mimi Thiero the WPIAL’s biggest girls basketball recruit since Swin Cash Quaker Valley Basketball slaambasketball Mimi Thiero Almamy Thiero unionprogress.com/2025/04/22/pup…

Kemon Spell decided to give track a try this spring. Same with Rowan Carmichael and Brady Mayo. These stars in other sports are more than holding their own, too. They headline this week’s PUP track notebook. Kemon spell RowanCarmichael Brady Mayo unionprogress.com/2025/04/23/pup…



The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞 strike still is the longest in the country, and we're not done fighting for what's right yet!


Sarah sets the tone 😌 Sarah Schupansky opens her National Women’s Soccer League account in the THIRD minute of our match against Washington Spirit! Washington Spirit 0 - 1 #GothamFC


Tuesday, Pittsburgh Regional Transit begins hearings to address its funding shortfall, and PGHers for Public Transit also holds a riders' rally. Our Ed Blazina, who will be there, sets the stage: unionprogress.com/2025/04/28/pit…

Our Steve Mellon, Helen Fallon and John Santa cover Workers Memorial Day, the name-the-still-mill-eaglet contest and Point Park Baseball "just having fun really." Ed Blazina's covering today's transit hearings and riders' rally: unionprogress.com


Loren Torres has built one of the region’s top college baseball programs at Point Park University Athletics over the past 16 years. It should come as no surprise Point Park Baseball has found immediate success in Mountain East Conf. right away. Pittsburgh Union Progress 📰 has the story. unionprogress.com/2025/04/29/poi…

🚨BIG news: Today the federal judges who granted us an injunction last month ordering Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to restore our illegally-taken health care DENIED the company’s desperate attempts to rehear the case, delay justice and cut its *current* workers out of the plan we’ve won back.


Coming off its first WPIAL title in a dozen years, expectations were higher than ever for Chartiers-Houston — and so far, the high-powered Bucs have been every bit as good as advertised. Chartiers-Houston Softball headlines this week’s Pittsburgh Union Progress 📰 softball notebook: tinyurl.com/5etkk2sp


ICYMI — this week’s Pittsburgh Union Progress 📰 baseball notebook shined the spotlight on Pine-Richland Athletics, NESHANNOCK HS BASEBALL and Montour Baseball, while our softball notebook featured Chartiers-Houston Softball and its pursuit of a historic 10th WPIAL title. ⚾️📒: tinyurl.com/h92hm373 🥎📒: tinyurl.com/5etkk2sp



Keara Mangieri’s high school career might be coming to an end soon, but the New Castle star has had a year to remember for the Red Hurricanes. The power-hitting Pitt recruit and WPIAL home run leader headlines this week’s Pittsburgh Union Progress 📰 softball notebook: tinyurl.com/2fmek7fc


If anybody knows how to heat up for the home stretch and peak at the right time, it’s Bethel Park — and this year is no different. The Bethel Park Hawks Baseball headline this week’s Pittsburgh Union Progress 📰 baseball notebook alongside Burgettstown Blue Devil Baseball, FortCherrySD and Plum Athletics: tinyurl.com/555vuw25