First 12-team College Football Playoff field set
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Oregon seeded No. 1; SMU edges Alabama for last spot
By By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer 
December 9, 2024
The new, 12-team College Football Playoff brings with it a promise to be bigger, more exciting, more lucrative. Perfect or 100% fair? Well, nobody ever believed that. The first expanded playoff bracke...
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NC State’s Tony Gibson is named head coach at Marshall
December 9, 2024
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Barry Odom is getting a second chance to put a Power Four program back to prominence. He can’t wait. Purdue athletic director Mike Bobinski announced Sunday he had hired the 48-yea...
Oregon outlasts Penn State for Big Ten title and 1st-round bye in playoffs
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December 9, 2024
Dillon Gabriel throws four TD passes for the Ducks in the 45-37 victory. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — No. 1 Oregon managed to navigate all the potential pitfalls of a topsy-turvy college football season — even...
Darnold sets two new career highs as Vikings win
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December 9, 2024
He threw for 347 yards and five TDs in the 42-21 victory. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Sam Darnold tossed aside his stoic demeanor for a moment after realizing he was on the videoboard, aggressively twirling a ...
Barkley has Dickerson’s NFL rushing mark in his sights
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December 9, 2024
He needs 483 yards in the Eagles’ final four games to break the record. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Saquon Barkley knew the Eagles season rushing record could be his on Sunday with the type of stellar perform...
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December 9, 2024
2013 • Ringgold bested Charleroi, 54-45, in the season opener for both teams. Charleroi coach Bill Wiltz said, “We were inconsistent. We took some bad shots and had some bad turnovers. I think they we...
Hounds’ Johnson, Carter lead rout of Jeannette
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MAJOR CORLEY MEMORIAL TIPOFF TOURNAMENT
By ADAM BREWER MVI SPORTS 
December 7, 2024
They combined for 40 of Monessen’s 47 points and both posted double-doubles. The Monessen girls basketball team was seeing double in Friday’s season opener as juniors Madison Johnson and Na’Jaziah Car...
High stakes for Vulcans’ rematch with Slippery Rock
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By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
December 7, 2024
The teams will meet today at Adamson Stadium for a spot in the NCAA Division II semifinals. When the California (Pa.) football team knocked off Slippery Rock 28-7 in mid-October to move to 6-1, things...
Moore leads Leopards past Uniontown
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HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP
By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
December 7, 2024
The Belle Vernon boys basketball team came up with a 56-55 win against Uniontown Friday night as Zion Moore scored 23 points. The Leopards were stout defensively, holding Uniontown to just 25 points i...
Rangers snap Penguins’ season-high win streak
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
December 7, 2024
Forward Artemi Panarin scored two goals in New York’s 4-2 victory. The Pittsburgh Penguins look much better in early December than they did when the 2024-25 campaign began in early October. But they w...
No. 1 Panthers sweep Morehead State
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NCAA VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT
By By JOSH RIZZO TribLive 
December 7, 2024
Oklahoma is up next after the decisive first-round victory. Senior libero Emmy Klika and her teammates huddled together in front of the net after the Pitt women’s volleyball team swept Morehead State ...
Watt ready to reduce snap count with Highsmith’s return
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By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
December 7, 2024
He’s expected to start Sunday against the Browns. One Pittsburgh Steeler is ready for the return of Alex Highsmith after he missed three games with an ankle injury. It should come as no surprise it’s ...
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December 7, 2024
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Pickens, Newsome prepared to battle again Sunday
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December 7, 2024
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens doesn’t appear too worried about a rematch with Cleveland defensive back Greg Newsome II. Two weeks after Pickens and Newsome ended C...
Franklin, PSU looking to buck ‘big game’ trend
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December 7, 2024
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The empty trophy case that stares back at the players in the Penn State team meeting room says as much about the program as it does about its coach. James Franklin was in on the de...
Former Pitt QB Tino Sunseri hired as UCLA OC
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December 7, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eric Bieniemy’s return to UCLA lasted only one season. The Bruins let go of Bieniemy on Thursday after fielding one of the nation’s worst offenses this season. It didn’t take head c...
Lots at stake for CFB teams vying for playoff
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December 7, 2024
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — There’s more than just school pride and bragging rights to all that bellyaching over who might be in and who might be out of college football ‘s first 12-team playoff. Try the more...
Sanders, Hunter capture Big 12 season honors
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December 7, 2024
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Colorado two-way standout Travis Hunter was named the Big 12 defensive player of the year, and Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders was picked as the top offensive player in a vo...
Big 12 Championship comes full circle for Dillingham
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December 7, 2024
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — There was just something about coach Matt Campbell and his program at Iowa State that intrigued Kenny Dillingham. “His culture and his realness, I think he’s one of the most re...
FCS teams know all about a longer playoff
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By By HANK KURZ JR. AP 
December 7, 2024
The expanded 12-team College Football Playoff will be a new experience for many teams that never participated in the four-team version. The potential for multiple postseason games means a lot more pla...