Lila Mitchell and Hayley Gibson each finished with double-doubles in Cal’s win over Bentworth. Like most teams in the Mon Valley, the California girls’ basketball team has had its fair share of postpo...

The Belle Vernon wrestling team will turn attention to non-section duals and the meat of individual tournaments after falling in the first round of the WPIAL team tournament Wednesday. The Leopards to...

Kaelynn Settles inches closer to 1,000 career points with 25 in victory over Ringgold. Just under three years after a fire ripped through Elizabeth Forward High School, destroying the gymnasium and au...

Belle Vernon built a commanding first-half lead and cruised to a 60-37 victory over Laurel Highlands on Wednesday night in Section 3-4A play, inching closer to securing a section title. The Leopards (...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jon Sumrall had no idea one of his first major moves as Florida’s football coach had been done before in Gainesville — more than two decades ago. Sumrall gave his players shor...

Sidney Crosby is well educated on winning. He has a trio Stanley Cup rings stowed away in a sock drawer or a fireproof safe with a biometric lock to verify that postulate. So, he understands why the P...

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Browns have hired one of their former coordinators to be the team’s head coach. However, it is not the one some people expected. The Browns hired Todd Monken on Wednesda...

NEW YORK (AP) — Celebrated at home for reaching 900 wins, Rick Pitino couldn’t help but think back about where it all began. Pitino was honored Wednesday night by St. John’s after achieving the rare m...

Bill Belichick won six Lombardi Trophies as a head coach with the Patriots, two as an assistant with the Giants and has more Super Bowl rings than anyone in NFL history. Yet somehow he’s not a first-b...

Cunningham hired as Falcons’ GM ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons added the final piece to their new leadership team on Thursday night by hiring Ian Cunningham as general manager. The decision came a...

For the better part of a quarter century, Mike McCarthy fostered a reputation as one of the NFL’s foremost offensive minds. The production speaks for itself. Over McCarthy’s 18 seasons as a head coach...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Count New England Patriots team owner Robert Kraft among those shocked that Bill Belichick reportedly will not be selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year o...

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Belle Vernon and Elizabeth Forward have traded blows atop Section 3-4A all season in a battle for the title, so it was fitting that the two sides went back and forth in their pivotal second matchup We...

By the Mon Valley Independent While it was brisk and chilly outside, Thomas Jefferson’s Maggie Spell was heating things up inside the gymnasium in Jefferson Hills. The Jaguars remained unbeaten in Sec...

Elizabeth Forward’s dynamic duo combined for 57 points in the Warriors’ win, pulling them into a tie for first place. The story of the season for the Elizabeth Forward boys basketball team has been th...

California (Pa.) outscored the Crimson Hawks by 20 points in the second half to move to 11-1 in conference play. By the Mon Valley Independent The California (Pa.) men’s basketball team erased a doubl...

West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez didn’t mince words about what areas of his roster needed help from college football’s transfer portal. “Every one,” he said. Rodriguez didn’t have a stellar start to...

Allen Greene has opted to keep a lower profile throughout his 15-month tenure as Pitt’s athletic director. As the Panthers and athletic departments across the country grapple with the demands of reven...

Big Ben is a big fan of the Mike McCarthy hire. Longtime Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on Wednesday weighed in on the choice of McCarthy to serve as the franchise’s 17th coach. “I...