Arch Manning leads Texas to win in first start
NCAA, Sports
September 23, 2024
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Arch Manning earned his first career win as a starter and Jaydon Blue scored four touchdowns as No. 1 Texas ran over Louisiana-Monroe 51-3 on Saturday night. The Longhorns took ov...
Heupel, Tennessee win in return to Oklahoma
NCAA, Sports
September 23, 2024
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Tennessee coach Josh Heupel won in his return to Oklahoma — the same school he quarterbacked to a national championship in 2000 and fired him as offensive coordinator after the 20...
Sanders, Colorado win in crazy ending
NCAA, Sports
September 23, 2024
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The clock struck 0:00 and Shedeur Sanders rolled to his left and let the football fly. LaJohntay Wester caught the 43-yard Hail Mary pass in the end zone, unleashing bedlam in Bo...
NCAA, Sports
September 23, 2024
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Miami quarterback Cam Ward topped 15,000 yards passing in his career, making him the 13th player recognized by the NCAA to have reached that milestone. Ward entered Saturday night’s...
Dubois retains IBF belt in dominant win over Joshua
Other Sports, Sports
September 23, 2024
LONDON (AP) — Daniel Dubois is no longer an accidental world heavyweight champion. With a brutal fifth-round knockout of Anthony Joshua in front of 96,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, Dubois showed he mig...
Mercury Morris, part of Dolphins’ perfect season, dies at 77
NFL, Sports
September 23, 2024
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Eugene “Mercury” Morris, who starred for the unbeaten 1972 Miami Dolphins as part of a star-studded backfield and helped the team win two Super Bowl titles, has died, the te...
Sports
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
September 23, 2024
Well, Steelers fans, better get ready for it. And, yeah, Steeler haters, you better get ready too. Because it’s coming. Oh, boy is it coming. The Pittsburgh Steelers are about to get some attention. T...
Sports
Browns defensive end Myles
September 23, 2024
Ryan and Adam Moessner each scored two goals as the Bearcats (9-0) dominated in nonsection play over the weekend. Aiden McMurray, Billy Moyer and Austin Hollier also scored for Bentworth as it took a ...
Sports
September 23, 2024
COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY 3 p.m. - BTN — Michigan at Michigan St. COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN’S) 9 p.m. - ESPNU — Utah at BYU MLB BASEBALL 6:30 p.m. - MLBN — Regional Coverage: Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia OR Bo...
Sports
September 23, 2024
2013 • The Belle Vernon Area boys soccer team played what coach John Kerekes called, “our best game of the year” in a 3-0 shutout win over Elizabeth Forward. Kerekes said, “I thought we controlled gam...
Win at West Mifflin keeps TJ perfect in ‘first half’ of season
High school, Sports
By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
September 21, 2024
The 5-0 Jaguars will turn their focus to conference play after the 35-7 victory. Thomas Jefferson’s football team has split its season into two halves, the five games in the nonconference slate and th...
Gladiators drop wild shootout to South Park
High school, Sports
By By KYLE DAWSON Trib Total Media 
September 21, 2024
South Allegheny scored on its first two plays from scrimmage, but couldn’t keep up with the Eagles. After dominating time of possession a week ago in a 7-0 conference win over Steel Valley, South Park...
Greyhounds fizzle out as Sieg sizzles
High school, Sports
By ADAM BREWER MVI SPORTS 
September 21, 2024
The Rangers scored the last 28 points of the game to pick up a Black Hills Conference victory. Monessen looked like it had all the momentum after scoring on its first drive of the second half to take ...
South Fayette storms ‘The Beach’ behind Welhorsky
High school, Sports
By JEREMY SELLEW 
September 21, 2024
The star quarterback threw for 175 yards and ran for 126 in a 27-14 win. It’s not often that the Belle Vernon football team doesn’t “defend The Beach.” But Friday was one of those night. South Fayette...
High school, Sports
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP
September 21, 2024
Noah Pletcher’s 55-yard run provided the Cougars’ only touchdown in a 14-7 loss. MVI Sports Charleroi came up just short in Century Conference play Friday night, dropping a 14-7 decision at Keystone O...
Reds pound Bucs in series opener
MLB, Sports
September 21, 2024
The 8-3 loss ensures the Pirates will have another losing season. CINCINNATI (AP) — Elly De La Cruz joined Vince Coleman and Rickey Henderson to become the third player to steal 100 bases in his first...
High school, Sports
September 21, 2024
2014 • Sunday – no paper 2004 • Horrendous rains hit the area in the wake of Hurricane Ivan. The Belle Vernon Area-Laurel Highlands game was one of only three games of the 56 contests scheduled to be ...
Gonzales trusts instincts to come through in clutch
MLB, Sports
By By KEVIN GORMAN Trib Total Media 
September 21, 2024
Nick Gonzales was facing an 0-2 count with two outs and runners on first and third in the eighth inning, so the Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman was looking for a pitch to hit. Even though he wasn’t ...
Jones at piece with benching, future with Steelers
NFL, Sports
By By CHRIS ADAMSKI Trib Total Media 
September 21, 2024
Four days after suffering the humiliation of getting pulled from a game — mid-series — by an angry coach to cap a week in which he was demoted from first-team status, Broderick Jones was taking the si...
Malkin: ‘We don’t want a long summer again’
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
September 21, 2024
It wasn’t the prettiest goal Evgeni Malkin scored. In fact, it wasn’t even really a goal. Not officially, at least. But when Malkin banged in a rebound off a blocked shot behind goaltending prospect S...