Belle Vernon and Elizabeth Forward have traded blows atop Section 3-4A all season in a battle for the title, so it was fitting that the two sides went back and forth in their pivotal second matchup We...

Elizabeth Forward’s dynamic duo combined for 57 points in the Warriors’ win, pulling them into a tie for first place. The story of the season for the Elizabeth Forward boys basketball team has been th...

By the Mon Valley Independent While it was brisk and chilly outside, Thomas Jefferson’s Maggie Spell was heating things up inside the gymnasium in Jefferson Hills. The Jaguars remained unbeaten in Sec...

California (Pa.) outscored the Crimson Hawks by 20 points in the second half to move to 11-1 in conference play. By the Mon Valley Independent The California (Pa.) men’s basketball team erased a doubl...

West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez didn’t mince words about what areas of his roster needed help from college football’s transfer portal. “Every one,” he said. Rodriguez didn’t have a stellar start to...

Allen Greene has opted to keep a lower profile throughout his 15-month tenure as Pitt’s athletic director. As the Panthers and athletic departments across the country grapple with the demands of reven...

Big Ben is a big fan of the Mike McCarthy hire. Longtime Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on Wednesday weighed in on the choice of McCarthy to serve as the franchise’s 17th coach. “I...

Pitt announced a strategy Wednesday that will significantly alter the atmosphere and capacity for Panthers’ football games at Acrisure Stadium. Starting this fall, the stadium’s upper east and west si...

The quarterback Mike Mc-Carthy probably praised most Tuesday wasn’t the four-time league MVP that won a Super Bowl with him in Green Bay. Instead, it was Will Howard, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ sixthrou...

PennLive.com via TribLive The Matt Campbell era at Penn State kicks off Sept. 5 at Beaver Stadium when the Nittany Lions face Marshall. After a road trip to Temple on Sept. 12 and another home game ve...

More often than not this season, Pitt has been a team adept at finding ways to lose basketball games. Falling behind early, missing free throws, sputtering offense — the list goes on as to how the Pan...

Major college basketball’s longest winning streak in more than a decade ended at 24 games Tuesday night with No. 5 Nebraska’s 75-72 loss at No. 3 Michigan. “To beat Michigan, you have to play almost p...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Iga Swiatek picked up a theme that Coco Gauff left the Australian Open with after the 21-year-old American’s racket-smashing, frustration- releasing moments away from the c...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Darian Mensah has enrolled at Miami, giving the Hurricanes another standout transfer at quarterback as they come off a season where they went to the national championship gam...

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Vulcan softball slated fifth in preseason poll The California (PA) softball team was picked to finish fifth in the preseason Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) West poll, the league announc...

Mike McCarthy might be “one of us” as a Pittsburgh guy. But even with the press conference that introduced him as the new coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, he is not exactly being greeted with open ar...

The Leopards won the first meeting, 70-56, earlier this season at Elizabeth Forward. Since the Belle Vernon girls basketball team walked off Elizabeth Forward’s floor with a 70-56 win back on Dec. 22,...

The winner will remain tied atop the section standings with Derry. The loser falls to third place. After days of snow threw a wrench into most plans, Belle Vernon and Elizabeth Forward are more than r...

The Pittsburgh Pirates’ returning players have shared their excitement regarding how the club has navigated the offseason, acquiring a multitude of proven big-leaguers. First baseman Ryan O’Hearn, sec...