AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. (Thursday) - FS2 — AFL: Collingwood at Brisbane COLLEGE GOLF 7 p.m. - GOLF — The Western Intercollegiate: Final Round, Pasatiempo Golf Club, Santa Cruz, Cal...

Young ejected as Hawks lose to Orlando in play-in Atlanta star guard Trae Young threw a hard pass and showed off a little fancy ballhandling. Ordinarily, those are good things. Doing it against refere...

The senior southpaw tossed a three-hit shutout as the Warriors beat their rivals to the south 7-0. In an important Section 2-4A matchup between Belle Vernon and Elizabeth Forward featuring two star-st...

South Allegheny used a big fourth inning to turn around its fortunes against Apollo- Ridge in a key Section 2-2A softball matchup Monday at Apollo-Ridge High School. The Gladiators collected just five...

The Bearcats committed five errors as the Trojans extended their winning streak for four. Sometimes baseball is all about being opportunistic and taking advantage of all your chances. On Monday, the C...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Paul Skenes bounced back from the worst start of his career and teamed up with catcher Henry Davis to make a little history as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Washington Nationals 10...

The Serra Catholic baseball team appears to have righted the ship, picking up their third straight Section 3-1A win with a 17-1 win over Clairton Monday. Six Eagles had two hits apiece as seven of the...

When he sits down to evaluate the snapshots and video from Pitt’s Blue-Gold Game — perhaps more leisurely than usual with no game scheduled until Aug. 30 — Pat Narduzzi will see some good, some bad an...

Ben Cherington has a lot of reasons to be concerned about the Pittsburgh Pirates, as injuries have taken a toll on the starting lineup and weakened what he considered the deepest team of his tenure as...

Steve Kerr, the basketball fan, raves about the play-in tournament and the drama that it creates down the stretch of the NBA’s regular season and leading into the official start of the playoffs. Kerr,...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A political battle fit for the gridiron is underway in Ohio, where state Republican leaders are clashing over whether to single out the Cleveland Browns for help building a new s...

COLLEGE BASEBALL 7 p.m. - ESPN2 — Oklahoma at Oklahoma St. 7 p.m. - FS1 — Nebraska at Creighton 7 p.m. - SECN — Miami (Ohio) at Kentucky 9 p.m. - BTN — Oregon St. at UCLA COLLEGE GOLF 7 p.m. - GOLF — ...

The Leopards got home runs from Taylor Beech, Kaylee Sypolt and Bella Williams. The Belle Vernon softball team held off a late flurry from Elizabeth Forward to hand the Warriors their first Section 2-...

When I began my career as a writer at the former Valley Independent, I developed a great relationship with the coaches around the Valley. All of them were so easy to get to know, to talk to not only o...

Hunter Greene threw seven innings to earn his first-ever victory against Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Pirates had never lost to Hunter Greene — not even a game where he pitched a combined no-hitter over...

BVA is on top at 6-0, but West Mifflin, Elizabeth Forward and Ringgold are close behind. Several area teams have enjoyed success about halfway through the baseball and softball seasons, with many athl...

Rickard Rakell scored the only goal in a 4-1 loss. Pittsburgh Penguins forward Philip Tomasino was back in the lineup for Sunday’s home contest against the Boston Bruins after missing three prior game...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The closer Rory McIlroy came to fulfilling his lifetime dream — winning the Masters — the more it kept slipping away. Sunday at Augusta National felt like his last 11 years in the ...