NFL officials were heavily scrutinized for some of the flags they threw in the four divisional round games that saw the Chiefs, Bills, Eagles and Commanders advance to next weekend’s conference champi...

2005 • With 6-8 center Ben McCauley, one wouldn’t expect the Yough boys basketball team to rely on long-distance shots. But with Laurel Highlands shooting with uncanny accuracy from 3-point range, You...

BVA Youth Sports Association holding spring registration The Belle Vernon Area Youth Sports Association will hold two in-person baseball and softball signups beginning Feb. 4 for boys and girls ages 4...

Defense, scoring balance were key as Elizabeth Forward inched closer to a section title by beating visiting LH. With 5:03 remaining in the third quarter of Monday night’s Section 3-4A action between t...

Clairton’s Iyanna Wade (39) and Geibel’s Emma Larkin (38) put on a show in overtime thriller. The Geibel Catholic girls battled back from a fourpoint deficit late in the fourth quarter and then outsco...

O n ... I’M JUST SAYIN’ So, how do we fix the Steelers? I’ve thought long and hard about it and I’m trying to think practically instead of emotionally. Like any true yinzer, I bleed black and gold whe...

The first 12-team College Football Playoff comes to a close with Ohio State on top. ATLANTA (AP) — Instead of crying over another collapse, Ohio State can celebrate another national title after holdin...

For the Mon Valley Independent CALIFORNIA – In a stunning display of offensive prowess, the California (Pa.) women’s basketball team scored its highest point total in nearly a decade, defeating Penn S...

The California girls basketball team got back on the winning track with a win over visiting Bentworth Monday. Hayley Gibson led three scorers in double digits with a game-high 19 points to lead the Tr...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Paul Skenes has a lot on his mind. The chances of the perpetually curious National League Rookie of the Year staying with the Pittsburgh Pirates indefinitely is not one of them. Not ...

Paul Skenes could not bring himself to offer an endorsement of Bubba Chandler as a reliable bullpen catcher. This offseason, the two have trained together in a group that includes fellow Pittsburgh Pi...

I didn’t attend PiratesFest this weekend. I recently finished covering the Pittsburgh Steelers’ disastrous demise and the Penguins’ washout of a homestand. My Pittsburgh sports masochism knows at leas...

Either Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen had to lose. Allen played a cleaner game, so he’s advancing with the Buffalo Bills to face Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC championship game. T...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Lamar Jackson brought the Baltimore Ravens to the brink of a dramatic come-from-behind victory with the chance to secure their second straight berth in the AFC championship g...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyren Williams made a cut in the snow, then the Rams’ 1,200-yard rusher had the football pop loose on a clear — well, clear-ish — slick path snow-blown clean of a wintry mix. The b...

Jayden Daniels and the Washington Commanders have crashed an NFL final four full of heavyweights, joining the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles as the teams still vying for a S...

DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Lions had everything set up the way they wanted this time. After losing last season’s NFC championship game at San Francisco, they went 15-2 to earn the NFC’s top seed. They...

CHAMPIONS HOCKEY LEAGUE 1 p.m. - NHLN — Playoffs: Sparta Prague at Farjestad Karlstad, Semifinal - Return Game 3:30 p.m. - NHLN — Playoffs: Genève-Servette at ZSC Lions Zurich, Semifinal - Return Game...

2005 • T he Monessen girls basketball team blanked Trinity Christian, 12-0, in the first quarter on their way to a 63-22 victory over the visitors in a Section 3 match-up. Alicia Stein (15) and Charis...