Good offseason led to ‘monumental’ season for Glads
High school, Sports
By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
November 26, 2024
The South Allegheny football team waited 38 seasons to host a home playoff game, and it treated the home fans to an emphatic 53-14 victory in what turned out to be one of the team’s best seasons ever....
Penn State looks to close out regular season
NCAA, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO Trib Total Media 
November 26, 2024
James Franklin is under no illusions as to what his alternate reality would have looked like had Penn State dropped Saturday’s road game at Minnesota. That’s because Franklin would be shouldering a li...
Pitt’s Dunn to miss 6 weeks after thumb surgery
NCAA, Sports
By By JERRY DIPAOLA Trib Total Media 
November 26, 2024
Off to an encouraging start this season, Pitt men’s basketball received some bad news Monday when transfer guard Damian Dunn underwent surgery to repair a right thumb injury and will miss at least six...
Washington, Austin becoming bigger threats
NFL, Sports
By By CHRIS ADAMSKI Trib Total Media 
November 26, 2024
If they aren’t the respective biggest and smallest offensive skill-position players in the NFL, each is close to it. The long and the short of it is Darnell Washington and Calvin Austin III are evolvi...
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
November 26, 2024
Everything came down to a one-on-one confrontation Monday in Cranberry. Forward Matt Nieto vs. goaltender Tristan Jarry. Nieto attacked. Jarry reacted. Nieto scored. As Nieto skated toward the left-wi...
Sports
November 26, 2024
CANADIAN HOCKEY LEAGUE 7 p.m. - NHLN — CHL/USA Prospects Challenge: From London, Ontario COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN) 1:30 p.m. - CBSSN — Sunshine Slam Beach Bracket: TBD, Third-Place Game, Daytona Beach,...
Sports
November 26, 2024
2012 • For once in his life, Monessen boxer Sammy Vasquez Jr. was not disappointed to knock out his opponent in the first round. In fact, he was downright ecstatic. Vasquez capped an entertaining Doub...
Sports
November 26, 2024
Chargers’ Dobbins leaves with injury INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Chargers running back J.K. Dobbins suffered a knee injury during the second quarter of Monday night’s game against his former ...
Capel: Panthers learned ‘great lesson’ in loss
NCAA, Sports
By By JERRY DIPAOLA Trib Total Media 
November 26, 2024
The consolation game went into triple overtime and the shot clock wasn’t working at the outset. So, the start of the Greenbrier Tipoff championship game in White Sulpher Springs, W.Va., was delayed 75...
‘Hard Knocks’ ready to capture AFC North race
NFL, Sports
By By KEVIN GORMAN Trib Total Media 
November 26, 2024
The Pittsburgh Steelers are the only team in the AFC North that had never been featured on “Hard Knocks,” so their loss to the Cleveland Browns on Thursday night served as a proper introduction to the...
NCAA, Sports
November 26, 2024
By Trib Total Media Duquesne’s season-opening streak without a victory in men’s basketball under first-year coach Dru Joyce III reached five Sunday with a 71-60 loss to South Dakota State in the first...
NFL’s week 12 filled with sloppy play
NFL, Sports
By By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer 
November 26, 2024
Missed kicks. Poor tackling. Costly penalties. Week 12 was filled with sloppy play around the NFL, leading to some upsets and surprising outcomes. Jayden Daniels nearly led Washington to an improbable...
Rams fall flat in prime time once again
NFL, Sports
November 26, 2024
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — For the second time in three weeks, the Los Angeles Rams went into a game knowing a win would move them into a tie for the NFC West lead, only to struggle mightily on the prim...
Thanksgiving tournaments a beloved part of the sport
NCAA, Sports
By By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer 
November 26, 2024
Lea Miller-Tooley hopped off a call to welcome the Baylor women’s basketball team to the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, where 80-degree temperatures made it easy for the Bears to settle in on Paradis...
Clairton falls in WPIAL championship game
High school, Sports
By By PAUL SCHOFIELD Trib Total Media 
November 25, 2024
Fort Cherry managed to convert two trick plays in its game-winning drive. Fort Cherry captured its second consecutive WPIAL Class A title by using a little trickery and luck to stun Clairton, 21-20, S...
Decisive victory puts Jaguars in PIAA semifinals
High school, Sports
By By MICHAEL LOVE Trib Total Media 
November 25, 2024
Lampeter-Strasburg is up next after TJ shut down Clearfield, 35-0. ALTOONA — There was no hangover for WPIAL champion Thomas Jefferson against District 9 champion Clearfield in Saturday’s PIAA Class 4...
Vulcans advance on last-second kick
NCAA, Sports
By ADAM BREWER MVI SPORTS 
November 25, 2024
Anthony Beitko’s field goal as time expired gave them a 30-27 playoff win over East Stroudsburg. The California (Pa.) football team’s mantra this season has been to play for four full quarters and mak...
Sports
SPORTLIGHT
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
November 25, 2024
As we eagerly await Thanksgiving, Black Friday and everything else the holiday weekend has to offer, here’s a little food for thought: • How costly was the Steelers loss to the Browns on Thursday? We ...
NCAA, Sports
By By JERRY DIPAOLA TribLive 
November 25, 2024
The unbeaten Badgers prevailed in the Greenbrier Tipoff title game. Two undefeated teams met Sunday night in the championship game of the Greenbrier Tipoff in White Sulpher Springs, W.Va., and No. 19 ...
Alabama, Ole Miss losses hurt rankings in AP poll
NCAA, Sports
Poll points
By By ERIC OLSON AP 
November 25, 2024
Alabama and Mississippi tumbled out of the top 10 of The Associated Press Top 25 poll Sunday and Miami and SMU moved in following a chaotic weekend in the SEC and across college football in general. O...