Franklin Regional picked up a Section 4-3A win to hold firm in the No. 2 playoff spot with one game remaining in the regular season. Halle Beatty, Grace Copeland, Eden Williams and Natalie Keough each...

This week’s selections as Player of the Week and Athlete of the Week have some things in common. Not only are they talented athletes, but they are both leaders and difference makers on the field. In s...

2013 • An interesting turn of event means that both the Elizabeth Forward and Belle Vernon Area girls soccer teams will be advancing to the playoffs from the Section 4-AA. The two teams are advancing ...

Cougars still unbeaten The Charleroi Middle School football team remained unbeaten on the season with a 54-0 win over Ringgold. Jaxson Klinger finished with three touchdown passes and Brody DeUnger ca...

Trevor Kovatch scored his 100th career goal Tuesday, the gamewinner in a 2-1 victory over West Mifflin. Belle Vernon Area boys’ soccer star Trevor Kovatch has had a lot of memorable goals in his stori...

The former Parade All-American passed away Tuesday at 60 after a battle with cancer. Rich Bowen was never a fan of attention. Not as a star football player or a championship coach. Not as a good-natur...

The Commodores’ sweep of California clinched head coach Mandy Hartman’s 17th section title. The Frazier volleyball team celebrated senior night and a section title all in one night Tuesday. The Commod...

After opening the season with a section loss at Laurel Highlands in extra time and drawing two section matches three weeks ago, the Thomas Jefferson boys soccer team seems to have found its stride. Th...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Justin Fields paused, trying to think of the right words. When they didn’t come, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t think we’re one of those teams l...

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry have become one of the most formidable duos in the NFL, and that’s a primary reason the Baltimore Ravens are back where they expect to be: atop...

A pair of local golf teams will take part in the WPIAL boys team golf championships Thursday at Cedarbrook Golf Course. The Belle Vernon Area boys, which finished the regular season unbeaten, finished...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey team that defeated the heavily fa...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said it was “bothersome” and “unsettling” that a ball San Diego third baseman Manny Machado threw into the Dodgers dugout seemed intended for him duri...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hundreds of cars lined up at the gates to the Truman Sports Complex early Monday afternoon, nearly seven hours before the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs were to play th...

After the Steelers lost to the Dallas Cowboys (20-17) Sunday night, I wrote that I disagreed with Mike Tomlin’s decision to use his last timeout prior to the Cowboys’ fourth-down snap at the goal line...

Back when Pat Narduzzi was playing linebacker for Youngstown State and Rhode Island, he knew a third-down stop meant success. Series over, offense trudging to the bench, punt or field-goal try upcomin...

During his time as a defenseman with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mike Matheson had a way with words. Especially when it came to those who had a way with words. Like his coach at that time, Mike Sullivan....

KEYSTONE OAKS AT BELLE VERNON PHOTOS BY JENN CODELUPPI

COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7:30 p.m. - ESPN2 — New Mexico St. at Jacksonville St. COLLEGE GOLF 4:30 p.m. - GOLF — NB3 Collegiate: Match Play, Twin Warriors Golf Course, Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M. COLLEGE SOCCER (WO...