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Tenured Pittsburgh Steelers writer and reporter Dale Lolley died on Tuesday at 56 years old after a battle with cancer, the team announced on Wednesday.
Lolley was a contributing writer/editor for Steelers.com and had covered the team since 1993. Along with his writing for the team’s website, he was part of Steelers Nation Radio’s “The Drive,” alongside Matt Williamson and Wes Uhler.
“I’ve spent more than half of my life covering the team,” Lolley wrote when he joined Steelers.com in 2022. “If I’m not writing about them, I’m talking about them. It’s what I do.”
As part of The Derrick, Oil City’s newspaper, Lolley covered his first Steelers game in 1992 after pitching the idea to his sports editor because then-Indianapolis Colts head coach Ted Marchibroda was a native of nearby Franklin, Pa. He joined the Observer-Reporter in Washington, Pa., a few months later and became the publication’s Steelers beat writer that offseason.
Lolley was a longtime writer for the Observer-Reporter. He also spent nearly five years with DK Pittsburgh Sports before leaving for Steelers.com, which he considered “an opportunity of a lifetime,” he wrote in his final article for the former job. He was proud of his role in expanding DK Pittsburgh Sports from a digital-only platform to also including podcasts and a YouTube channel.
Lolley also served on the Washington Youth Baseball Council, spending a significant amount of his time helping the organization. He wrote last month on X that he was dealing with “an extended stretch of pneumonia.” His last post on that website was on Aug. 29.
“I lost my friend Dale Lolley last night to cancer,” wrote Joshua Falvo, a friend of Lolley’s, on Wednesday on Facebook. “And today I am sad and heartbroken.”
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