Spring drills ready to begin at Pitt
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By By JERRY DIPAOLA Trib Total Media 
March 11, 2025
Pitt football’s hopeful journey toward ACC title contention — not just respectability and relevance — began only days after the six-overtime, 4-minute, 38-second loss to Toledo in the GameAbove Sports...
Bruins, Ducks, Huskies win first Big 10 series
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By By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer 
March 11, 2025
Three of the four West Coast schools came out of their inaugural Big Ten series happy. Southern California, not so much. Oregon ran its win streak to 11 games with a road sweep of USC, which has lost ...
Rays have 120 hours to flip Steinbrenner Field
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March 11, 2025
TAMPA. Fla. (AP) — “Extreme Makeover: Baseball Edition” is about to premiere. When Tampa Bay players leave Steinbrenner Field following the New York Yankees’ spring training home finale on March 23, t...
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March 11, 2025
2005 • Belle Vernon Area’s Jason Weslager started out a winner in the PIAA Class AA Wrestling Championships but Charleroi Area’s Derek Johnson came up short. Weslager advanced to the quarterfinals in ...
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March 11, 2025
Robert Morris one win away from NCAA Tournament berth INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Kam Woods scored 19 of his 23 points after halftime and DJ Smith hit a go-ahead 3-pointer in overtime to help top seed Robert ...
Wade’s high school career ends as Clairton eliminated
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By ANDREW WHITE, MVI Sports 
March 10, 2025
The high-scoring Bears star had 24 points and 13 rebounds in her final game. Clairton’s season came to an end in the first round of the PIAA Class 1A playoffs as St. Joseph Academy pulled away late fo...
BVA’s Brown captures state wrestling title
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By By PAUL SCHOFIELD Trib Total Media 
March 10, 2025
He defeated Cooper Roscosky of Kiski Area in the finals. HERSHEY — Belle Vernon’s wrestling program finally has a state champion. On the school’s sixth try, junior Elijah Brown achieved what five othe...
Jaguars sink Susquehannock in PIAA playoffs
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By ADAM BREWER MVI SPORTS 
March 10, 2025
Kaylee DeAngelo and Maggie Spell combined for 33 points in TJ’s 55-37 victory. In PIAA basketball playoff matchups where neither squad know each other that well, the outcome often depends on who can c...
SA advances by squashing Cranberry
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By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
March 10, 2025
Drew Cook and Cam Epps led the Gladiators to a comfortable win in their PIAA playoff opener. Often in state tournament play, the early rounds will see some uneven levels of competition before things g...
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SPORTLIGHT
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
March 10, 2025
By now, sports fans throughout the tristate area are aware of the wild melee that broke out during Friday night’s Uniontown-Meadville PIAA playoff game. With just over three minutes to play and Meadvi...
Steelers make splashy move, acquire WR DK Metcalf for 2nd-round draft pick
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By By JOE RUTTER Trib Total Media 
March 10, 2025
Adding the big-play veteran receiver they lacked last season, the Pittsburgh Steelers are acquiring DK Metcalf from the Seattle Seahawks, a league source confirmed to TribLive on Sunday. ESPN initiall...
Drake wins MVC, will dance for 3rd straight year
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March 10, 2025
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Bennett Stirtz scored 24 points, Tavion Banks added 13 and top-seeded Drake defeated No. 2-seed Bradley 63-48 on Sunday to win Arch Madness for the third consecutive time. The Bulldog...
Lipscomb wins A-SUN to punch ticket to NCAA tournament
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March 10, 2025
NASHVILLE (AP) — Joe Anderson scored 12 of his team-high 23 points in the final four minutes to help power top-seeded Lipscomb to a 76-65 win over North Alabama on Sunday to win the Atlantic Sun Confe...
NC State’s Kevin Keatts fired year after improbable Final Four run
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March 10, 2025
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It was less than a year ago that Kevin Keatts and N.C. State took over March, taking a wild ride to the program’s first Atlantic Coast Conference title in nearly 38 years followed...
MSU dominates Michigan for cherry on top of Big 10 title
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March 10, 2025
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Tre Holloman scored a career-high 20 points, Jase Richardson had 18 points and No. 8 Michigan State beat No. 17 Michigan 79-62 on Sunday. With 37.2 seconds left, the rivals ...
Bowling Green hires former NFL star running back Eddie George as head coach
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March 10, 2025
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Bowling Green hired former NFL running back and Tennessee State coach Eddie George on Sunday as the Falcons’ head coach. George was a four-time NFL Pro Bowl running back and...
Iowa beats Nebraska to clinch final spot in Big 10 tournament
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March 10, 2025
LINCOLN, Neb.. (AP) — Payton Sandfort scored 22 points, his brother Pryce knocked down four 3-pointers and Iowa pulled away in the second half to beat Nebraska 8368, on Saturday, knocking the Cornhusk...
S.C. dominates Texas for 9th SEC title in 11 years
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March 10, 2025
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Dawn Staley thought winning this year’s SEC Championship would be much harder than any of the school’s previous titles after the league added Texas and Okl...
Cal (Pa.), NCAA, Sports
March 10, 2025
For the MVI SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. – The California (Pa.) men’s basketball team’s quest for a PSAC Tournament championship came to a sudden halt on Saturday, with an 84-74 loss to host Shepherd in the s...
Leopards hold off hot-shooting Steelers
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By ADAM BREWER MVI SPORTS 
March 8, 2025
Tommy Davis and Trevor Kovatch each scored 18 points to lead four doubledigit scorers for BVA. If you had to use words to describe the 2024-25 Belle Vernon Area boys’ basketball team it would be simpl...