PITTSBURGH — Roy McHugh, who spent decades covering Pittsburgh sports with elegance for both the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has died. He was 103.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that McHugh died Monday at Marian Manor nursing care facility.

McHugh chronicled Pittsburgh’s rise to the “City of Champions” during the 1970s thanks to the success of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers and Major League Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates. He also occasionally wrote for national magazines and co-authored a book entitled “Ruanaidh: The Story of Art Rooney and his Clan.”