2013 • The Belle Vernon Area girls basketball team has proved one thing in their first three wins of the season: the Leps have a strong offense. In their Section 4-AAA opener at Ringgold, the Leps sho...

Monessen-Brownsville canceled next week The Monessen boys basketball game against Brownsville scheduled for Monday has been canceled, but the Greyhounds will still take the floor. Westinghouse will re...

With a handful of losses to start the season, the Connellsville girls basketball team was in desperate need of a confidence boost and some positive vibes. On Wednesday, the Falcons got exactly what th...

(Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part story featuring Monessen’s Reggie Allen). There’s something magical about the first name Reggie in the world of football. It brings back memories of Hal...

Bentworth dug deep to secure a hard-fought 42-26 victory over Frazier Wednesday night, using timely wins, clutch performances and key forfeits to pull away late in a tense wrestling dual in Section 3-...

Brandin Cummings is the fourth Panthers’ freshman to score 30 points in a game. On a team with veteran guards Jaland Lowe and Ishmael Leggett, freshman Brandin Cummings found himself in the brightest ...

IRVING, Texas (AP) — The NFL will consider expanding replay assist to include facemask penalties and other plays. Officials have missed several obvious facemask penalties this season, including two in...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin started going down the checklist of the myriad ways Saquon Barkley can beat you. It took the Pittsburgh Steelers coach a while — by his usually measured standards anyway ...

At most of his football coaching stops, Tim Bukowski stayed seven years. That was the case at Monessen, Charleroi, Clairton and, now, Southmoreland. “I am not making it to eight,” said Bukowski, who r...

PennLive.com via Trib Total Media The transfer portal officially opened Monday, starting a stretch of 20 days between Monday and Dec. 28 where players can enter the portal and find a new college progr...

Former New York Jets star Mark Gastineau confronted Brett Favre last year at a memorabilia show and angrily accused the Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback of deliberately going down on a record-bre...

In a season on pace for a record number of close games, no team has been better at pulling them out late than the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs tied an...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The least productive four-game stretch of Deebo Samuel’s career sent the frustrated wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers to social media. In a now-deleted post on X, fo...

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — The expanded College Football Playoff brings something new for coaches who are used to planning for one game, maybe two: Rust vs. rest. The 12-team bracket released Sunday feature...

Dillon Gabriel was faced with a quandary when he arrived at Oregon this year. Gabriel had worn No. 8 at Oklahoma before transferring for his sixth season of eligibility. But in Eugene, that number had...

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN) 7 p.m. - ACCN — Bethune-Cookman at Virginia 7:30 p.m. - FS1 — Iowa St. at Iowa COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN) 7 p.m. - ESPN — UConn at Notre Dame COLLEGE FOOTBALL 9 p.m. - ESPN — ...

2013 • The Belle Vernon Area boys basketball team has given new coach Kyle DeGregorio his first win. The BVA boys jumped out to a 16-point halftime lead on their way to a 52-41 victory over Mt. Pleasa...

BVA MS boys swarm GCC The Belle Vernon Area Middle School boys basketball team remained unbeaten with a pair of lopsided wins at Greensburg Central Catholic Wednesday. The 8th-grade Leopards (4-0) pic...

Defense helped BVA outscore McKeesport, 24-12, in the final period of Tuesday’s win. The Belle Vernon Area boys basketball team upped its winning streak to three Monday with a non-section win over vis...

Charleroi put on a defensive clinic Tuesday, cruising to a 65-30 victory over Carmichaels behind a relentless press, balanced scoring, and contributions from the bench. The Cougars jumped out to an ea...