Macafee: Excited to be back in Pittsburgh sports

Growing up in a small town in Western New York, I never got the chance to experience these things. They were foreign to me. The entire city experience was. So when I first came to the city in 2010 after enrolling at Slippery Rock University, I was awe-struck because Pittsburgh is simply a special place.

So, after a three-year stint in the Youngstown-Warren area of Ohio, which is called the Mahoning Valley, I’m excited to jump back into the fray by covering the Steelers, and whatever else may come up, here at DK Pittsburgh Sports because this is what I’m meant to do.

To give that statement a little more context, and to tell you a little bit about myself, I’m from Wellsville. I received my bachelor’s degree from Slippery Rock in 2014 and moved to Arizona shortly afterward for my first full-time journalism job. I was chasing a dream. Or a calling, for that matter.

In 2018, I graduated from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication with a master’s degree in sports journalism before moving back to the Pittsburgh area to work for the Beaver County Times. After about a year, I started at the Tribune-Review where I covered high school sports, the Riverhounds and occasionally chipped in on the Pitt beat.

I moved to the Mahoning Valley in 2021 to be closer to my girlfriend Lauren, who is now my wife.