Sports
February 20, 2025
2005 • Sunday – no paper. 1995 • The Ringgold and Mt. Lebanon High School basketball teams meet for the second time this season in the first round of the WPIAL Quad-A playoffs. Game films from that fi...
Sports
February 20, 2025
Brownson House looking for girls basketball teams The Brownson House in Washington is looking for girls basketball teams. The 2025 Brownson House Spring Girls Youth Basketball League will begin the se...
Carl Crawley Jr. dies unexpectedly
Sports
February 19, 2025
By the Mon Valley Independent The Mon Valley lost another one of its sports legends this week. Carl Crawley Jr., of New Eagle, died Feb. 12 unexpectedly at the age of 86. Crawley was one of the best a...
Leps, Warriors set for Round 3 tonight in quarterfinal
High school, Sports
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
February 19, 2025
Elizabeth Forward visits top-seeded Belle Vernon Area in a WPIAL 4A quarterfinal game tonight. The game has a lot of storylines to it going in. For starters, BVA (18-4) is the top seed in the tourname...
Epps, Cook shoot Gladiators past Cougars
High school, Sports
By JEREMY SELLEW 
February 19, 2025
Cam Epps (24) and Drew Cook (18) combined for 10 3-pointers and 42 points in SA’s win over Charleroi. Charleroi head coach Joe Dunn joked that if his Cougars pulled the upset over No. 2 South Alleghen...
Big shots lead Colts over TJ
High school, Sports
By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
February 19, 2025
Coming into Tuesday night’s WPIAL Class 5A playoff matchup at No. 4 Chartiers Valley, Thomas Jefferson coach Dom DeCicco said that his squad would have to avoid turnovers and rushed possessions despit...
Skenes adding to his electric arsenal in Year 2
MLB, Sports
February 19, 2025
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Paul Skenes spent his rookie season dutifully following the Pittsburgh Pirates’ plan to bring their young ace along as slowly and safely as possible. It worked. Maybe better tha...
Guerin would welcome Trump for U.S.-Canada final
NHL, Sports
February 19, 2025
BOSTON (AP) — The general manager of the U.S. team in the 4 Nations Face-Off hockey tournament said he would welcome a visit from President Donald Trump to the championship game between the United Sta...
Manfred: A’s still expected in Vegas by 2028, despite ballpark
MLB, Sports
February 19, 2025
PHOENIX (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred called the Athletics temporary home charming but reiterated he expects the franchise will open its new stadium in Las Vegas in 2028. Manfred recently v...
Guerrero plans to become free agent after failing at new deal
MLB, Sports
SPRING TRAINING ROUNDUP
February 19, 2025
DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. plans to become a free agent after the season following the passing of his deadline Tuesday to reach a long-term agreement with the Toronto Blue Jays. “Liste...
Pham starts Pirates’ stint with a bang
MLB, Sports
By By KEVIN GORMAN Trib Total Media 
February 19, 2025
BRADENTON, Fla. — The message manager Derek Shelton delivered to the Pittsburgh Pirates before the first full-squad workout of spring training was about the expectation of winning, a new mantra for a ...
Sweden tops U.S., 2-1, in final round-robin contest
NHL, Sports
February 19, 2025
BOSTON (AP) — The first matchup between the United States and Canada in the 4 Nations Face-Off left both sides — and most hockey fans, too — wanting more. And that’s just what they’ll get. The North A...
Rematch set: Canada tops Finland to reach final
NHL, Sports
February 19, 2025
BOSTON (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon scored twice. Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist. Sidney Crosby flipped in an empty-netter from center ice after Finland cut a four-goal deficit to one in the final...
Sasaki makes immediate impact for Stanford
NCAA, Sports
COLLEGE BASEBALL NOTEBOOK
February 19, 2025
By ERIC OLSON In the polls AP Sports Writer Rintaro Sasaki certainly lived up to the yearlong hype surrounding his debut at Stanford. The slugging first baseman went 6 for 14 with two doubles and a te...
PLAYOFF SNAPSHOTS
High school, Sports
February 19, 2025
Sports
February 19, 2025
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN) 6 p.m. - CBSSN — UMass at VCU 6:30 p.m. - BTN — Nebraska at Penn St. 7 p.m. - ACCN — SMU at Notre Dame 7 p.m. - ESPN — NC State at North Carolina 7 p.m. - ESPN2 — Cincinnati a...
Sports
February 19, 2025
2005 • Monessen High School girls basketball coach Major Corley is going back to an old friend for a Class A quarterfinal game against Mt Alvernia at Southmoreland. Corley said, “I am going to bring m...
Sports
February 19, 2025
Trojans’ season comes to an end in first round of playoffs California traveled to Fort Cherry seeking a victory in the first round of the WPIAL Class 2A girls basketball playoffs Tuesday night, but it...
NHL, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
February 19, 2025
The Pittsburgh Penguins conducted their first organized practice since Feb. 7 on Tuesday afternoon, as the NHL’s 4 Nations Face-Off break continues ahead of Thursday’s title game between Canada and th...
Hopewell no match for No. 4 Warriors
High school, Sports
By ANDREW WHITE, MVI Sports 
February 18, 2025
Balanced scoring helped Elizabeth Forward move on to Thursday’s WPIAL quarterfinal. The Elizabeth Forward girls wasted no time making a statement in their WPIAL Class 4A playoff matchup against Hopewe...