Freshman Sunny Harper joined Jess Miller with 15 points for McKeesport. Despite the youth of the McKeesport girls basketball team, it has been progressing well under the first year of head coach Anna ...

Madelyn Roberts scored a game-high 20 points to lead West Greene over Monessen. Inexperienced, turnovers and a lack of a consistent offense were the Monessen girls’ basketball team downfall Thursday n...

Chartiers-Houston continued its dominant season with an emphatic 57-23 victory over California, using a relentless full-court press and balanced scoring to maintain their perfect record. The Buccaneer...

Of the six dozen or so players in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room, few speak their mind more openly — and more often — than DeShon Elliott. “You know, DeShon is DeShon,” defensive coordinator Tery...

Chris Boswell has a converse relationship between the length of a conversation about field goals and the distance on his attempts. When it comes to discussing his job, the shorter the sweeter for the ...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Oregon withstood many challenges en route to being the only unbeaten team and the top seed in the College Football Playoff. However, Ohio State’s opening flurry on offense and ...

MIAMI (AP) — Trey Murphy III knew his mother was in downtown New Orleans to ring in the new year. His chef was there as well. And when Murphy heard about the tragedy that happened on Bourbon Street, h...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Buddy Hield hollers through the locker room at Stephen Curry with some good-natured banter or cracks jokes at practice and on the team plane, by all accounts leaving everyone in h...

WEST MIFFLIN AT SOUTH ALLEGHENY

Justin Tucker’s five-year reign as the AFC kicker named to the Pro Bowl roster has ended. But the man who replaced him doesn’t views it as a passing of the torch. “There’s no passing a guy like that,”...

By the Mon Valley Independent The South Allegheny girls basketball team earned its first win of the season Thursday night in a home matchup against East Allegheny. The Gladiators (1-8, 1-2) were led b...

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN) 6 p.m. - CBSSN — Akron at Bowling Green 7 p.m. - ESPN2 — Wichita St. at Temple 7 p.m. - FS1 — Iowa at Wisconsin 8 p.m. - CBSSN — Xavier at Georgetown 8 p.m. - FOX — Michigan S...

2005 • Archive unavailable. 1995 • Belle Vernon Area basketball coach Bill Wiltz stops short of calling a game against McKeesport “do or die” but he isn’t downplaying the importance of the game either...

BVA hosting softball pitching clinic The Belle Vernon Area softball team will host a pitching clinic for any girl in the BVA school district in grades 1 through 8. The clinic is free and will be held ...

Belle Vernon competed at the MyHouse Trojan Wars while Frazier was at the Southmoreland Holiday Classic. Led by a dominant performance by defending WPIAL champion Elijah Brown, the Belle Vernon Area w...

For the first 16 minutes of Pitt’s 86-74 victory Wednesday against California, the Panthers were late to loose balls and rebounds, handled the opponent’s defensive pressure like they were wearing glov...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Jeremiah Smith caught two of Will Howard’s three long touchdown passes during Ohio State’s sensational 34-point first half, and the No. 6 Buckeyes roared into the College Footb...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Zach Frazier began his first season with the Pittsburgh Steelers with a problem he’d rarely encountered on the football field up to that point. The rookie center found himself stuck ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Looking back, DeShon Elliott thinks he maybe shouldn’t have made his frustrations about the direction the Pittsburgh Steelers defense is heading so public. Then again, the veteran sa...

MVI SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHERS JEFF HELSEL (LEFT) AND MIKE DARNAY (RIGHT) SHARE THEIR FAVORITES OF 2024.