Belle Vernon’s Ryan Kent won the WPIAL 3A championship in the discus Thursday with a school record and personal best toss measuring 180-feet, 1-inch. Kent also is the WPIAL 3A champion in the shot put...

The Yough softball team had plenty of experience in close games entering the playoffs, having played six one-run contests during the regular season. Unfortunately for the Cougars, another tight battle...

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The Edmonton Oilers fired coach Kris Knoblauch on Thursday, dismissing him after a first-round exit followed him guiding the team to consecutive trips to the Stanley Cup Final...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Corey Seager is going through a slump like none he has ever had to endure in the big leagues. The two-time World Series MVP shortstop is hitless in his last seven games for the...

ROME (AP) — Jannik Sinner is two victories away from becoming the first home man to win the Italian Open in half a century. And it doesn’t seem like anybody can stop him — either in Rome or at the Fre...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Things didn’t go smoothly for Frederik Andersen early in the regular season. He was hunting his game. And as he tried to work through it, a one-time waiver pickup was taking over ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia region has welcomed major championships to five of its golf clubs, most notably Merion and this week’s PGA Championship at Aronimink. Yet the area’s greatest contr...

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The Bentworth softball team has made deep runs in the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs the last two seasons, and the Bearcats hope another lengthy postseason journey begins today. Bentworth (17-1) earned the N...

jsellew@yourmvi.com A large group of local athletes will compete today in the WPIAL Class 2A and Class 3A track and field championships at Slippery Rock University, with medal hopefuls spread across t...

For four innings, Mitch Keller was pitching to perfection as the Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander required only 42 pitches to retire the first dozen batters he faced. The Colorado Rockies countered wit...

South Allegheny’s softball team will face off against Brownsville in the opening round of the Class 2A WPIAL softball playoffs Thursday. Coming in, the two teams have a matching record of 12-7, but a ...

Charleroi softball coach Trey Tilghman has his team in the WPIAL playoffs for the sixth straight season. If the 11th-seeded Cougars (5-12) are going to advance past sixth-seeded Burrell (10-8) in Thur...

One of the things that has stood out in the WPIAL playoffs is the depth of the Class 2A softball field, and Frazier head coach Don Hartman is thankful that his Commodores have been playing good ball l...

The San Francisco 49ers will bookend the NFL ‘s largest ever international slate, playing the 2026 season opener in Melbourne against the NFC West rival Los Angeles Rams and facing the Minnesota Vikin...

TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Maple Leafs fired coach Craig Berube on Wednesday after he guided the team to a last-place finish in the Atlantic Division this season. The move ended Berube’s twoyear run w...

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Clark-Bueckers matchup second-most watched game on ABC-ESPN NEW YORK (AP) — The matchup between Indiana’s Caitlin Clark and Dallas’ Paige Bueckers on the WNBA’s opening weekend averaged 2.49 million v...

South Allegheny’s Adam Jackowski dominated a potent Rebels’ lineup to earn the win. South Allegheny battled tooth and nail Monday afternoon, relying on a timely run and a dominant pitching performance...

By the Mon Valley Independent Aubrey Shaffer dominated in the circle and Thomas Jefferson did just enough offensively to hold off South Fayette for a 3-2 victory Monday in the first round of the WPIAL...