Big third quarter pushes Tigers to win over Titans
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By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
January 3, 2025
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 ...
Pioneers storm past Hounds
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By ADAM BREWER MVI SPORTS 
January 3, 2025
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...
Trojans fall in home opener to Char-Houston
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By ANDREW WHITE, MVI Sports 
January 3, 2025
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...
Safety Elliot not afraid to use his voice
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By By CHRIS ADAMSKI Trib Total Media 
January 3, 2025
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...
Boswell thriving on kicking the long ball
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By By CHRIS ADAMSKI Trib Total Media 
January 3, 2025
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 ...
Oregon sees title hopes dashed with knockout loss
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January 3, 2025
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 ...
Pelicans players, coaches grieve those killed in attack
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January 3, 2025
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...
Hield brings joy to Warriors while honoring his roots
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January 3, 2025
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...
Sports Snapshots
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January 3, 2025
WEST MIFFLIN AT SOUTH ALLEGHENY
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By By CHRIS ADAMSKI Trib Total Media 
January 3, 2025
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,”...
Gladiators top EA to grab first win of season
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HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP
January 3, 2025
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...
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January 3, 2025
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...
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January 3, 2025
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...
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January 3, 2025
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 ...
Leps, Dores bring home holiday hardware
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By JEREMY SELLEW 
January 2, 2025
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...
Pitt battles back to beat Cal
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By By JERRY DIPAOLA Trib Total Media 
January 2, 2025
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...
Buckeyes hammer Oregon; Texas survives Sun Devils
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January 2, 2025
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...
Frazier exceeding expectations
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January 2, 2025
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 ...
Defense scrambling as playoffs loom
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January 2, 2025
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...
TOP SPORTS PHOTOS OF 2024
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January 2, 2025
MVI SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHERS JEFF HELSEL (LEFT) AND MIKE DARNAY (RIGHT) SHARE THEIR FAVORITES OF 2024.