Andre Berto is heading to Haiti instead of Las Vegas, something that the welterweight champion could not have imagined little more than a week ago. He has no choice because there’s work to be done there that, for now, is far more important than anything he does in the ring.

At least eight of his relatives are dead, he said. Others, like his sister, Naomi, and her daughter, Jessica, are homeless and helpless in the aftermath of the earthquake.

ANDRE BERTO

He struggles to comprehend the devastation he will see when he lands in the country he represented in the 2004 Olympics. He knows he can do only so much to help in the few days he hopes to be there.

For years the Perry Commodores owned City League football. The last few years the Brashear Bulls dominated and were expected to do the same this season but that didn’t happen. Schenley, Oliver and Perry joined them atop of the League, with Schenley surprising everybody by winning their first title since 1950.

MANASSEH GARNER, JEROME MATHEWS, MARTISE SMITH

In selecting our third annual All City football team the Courier kept this in mind with the selection of the players. The four top teams dominate the selections as they dominated league play, but all nine schools are represented. Helping us select the players were the coaches of all nine schools in the city, Woody Miller and the men in the booth who call the game and keep the stats, as well as our reporter and photographer who cover the teams. Schenley and Oliver tied for the best record at 7-1, and Perry and Brashear finished right behind them at 6-2. The other five teams finished under .500 with Peabody, Westinghouse and Carrick tied at 3-5, Allderdice 1-7 and Langley 0-8.

Ya'll please excuse me. I really, really intended to flood your eyeballs with stories from last weekend’s AFC and NFC Championship games but alas, thoughts and nightmares about the freakin’ NCAA woke me up repeatedly on Sunday night and if I have nightmares I am inclined to share them with you, the readers who most of the time, unbeknownst to “yinz” guys, function as my “proxy therapists.”

It was a three-point shot by Daryl Harrington with four seconds left that took care of Oliver (3-1, 5-3) and their chances of taking sole possession of second place in the City League, going down to Perry (5-0, 8-1) 68-65, Jan. 12. This puts them in a three-way tie with Westinghouse and Peabody for the “next to best” spot in the league’s standings as they have matching 3-1 conference records.

PENN HILLS FALLS TO UPPER ST. CLAIR IN WPIAL ACTION—Penn Hills guard Lamont Wright dribbles past Upper St. Clair’s Mike Worthy during the Indians’ 46-39 loss in the Penn Hills Rotary Classic Jan. 16.