Belle Vernon advances to championship
High school, Local Sports, Sports
By ADAM BREWER MVI SPORTS 
July 10, 2024
A 6-run second inning helped BV get past Charleroi to Fayette County championship against Connellsville. Both Belle Vernon and Charleroi legion baseball teams had to battle some unusual, windy conditi...
Hall of Famer or not, Dad still knows best
Sports, Sports Columns
SPORTS STEW
By By WAYNE STEWART For MVI Sports 
July 10, 2024
Born in Donora in 1969, on the same date as native son Stan Musial, Ken Griffey Jr. set diamonds on fire. He hit 630 homers, No. 7 alltime, drove in 1,836 runs, 17th all-time. But there’s more to his ...
Brewers bounce back to throttle Pirates, 9-0
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JERRY DIPAOLA Trib Total Media 
July 10, 2024
More evidence surfaced Wednesday night that baseball is a strange, unpredictable game. Day to day, there’s no telling what might happen. One night after scoring double-digit runs (12) for the second t...
NCAA, Sports
July 10, 2024
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Colorado coach Deion Sanders took some time at the start of his first Big 12 media days appearance Wednesday to salute some of the other coaches in the league. The Pro Football Hall o...
Sports
July 10, 2024
Colombia tops Uruguay to advance to Copa final CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jefferson Lerma scored in the 39th minute, and Colombia played a man short the entire second half in a 1-0 win over Uruguay on Wed...
Canada sets basketball roster, returning 8
Olympics, Sports
July 10, 2024
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Canada finalized its men's basketball roster for the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, with eight of the 12 players selected having been part of the run to a bronze medal at last summer's ...
Olympics, Sports
July 10, 2024
DENVER (AP) - For the fourth consecutive Summer Olympics, Team USA will be sending a roster featuring more women than men. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced the 592-member contingent...
Don’t be duped, Nutting won’t pay
Pittsburgh, Sports, Sports Columns
THE SUPER GENIUS
By By MARK MADDEN Trib Total Media 
July 10, 2024
Pirates owner Bob Nutting said that GM Ben Cherington would have the flexibility to add players (and payroll) before the July 30 MLB trade deadline if the situation dictated. The situation dictates, h...
Musharov impresses in prospect tourney
Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
July 10, 2024
The Pittsburgh Penguins concluded their prospect development camp Wednesday in Cranberry with a fouron- four tournament of three different squads. The unimaginatively monikered Team 1 claimed glory wi...
Yager getting closer to NHL
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By GIUSTINO RACCHINI Trib Total Media 
July 10, 2024
Chosen 14th in the 2023 NHL Draft and with a junior hockey championship to his credit, Pittsburgh Penguins prospect Brayden Yager is ready to take his game to the next level. Last season in the Wester...
Franco formally charged in Dominican Republic
MLB, Sports
July 10, 2024
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has been formally charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in the Dominican Republic. Prosecutors filed multiple...
Porter pleads guilty in case tied to gambling scandal
NBA, Sports
July 10, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Former NBA player Jontay Porter admitted Wednesday that he schemed to take himself out of games for gambling’s sake, pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy crime in the scandal that a...
FanDuel fined for April Fool’s Day bets
Other Sports, Sports
July 10, 2024
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — It might have seemed too good to be true, but there it was, and on April Fool’s Day, no less: One of the country’s leading sports books was taking bets on mixed martial arts...
Celtics’ White replaces Kawhi on U.S. Olympic team
NBA, Olympics, Sports
July 10, 2024
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Derrick White of the NBA champion Boston Celtics has replaced the Los Angeles Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard on the U.S. team for the Paris Olympics, USA Basketball said Wednesday in the fir...
Sports, Sports Columns
July 10, 2024
2013 • Fredericktown Butcher Shop is now at the top of the Grebb League Girls Division. The Butcher Shop Team scored a 39-23 win over Bitonti’s Barristers in a battle of 1-0 teams. Fredericktown is no...
Berhalter fired as U.S. coach
Other Sports, Sports
July 10, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Gregg Berhalter was fired as U.S. men’s soccer coach on Wednesday, nine days after his team’s first-round exit from the Copa America flamed doubts he was the right person to remain in ...
EF’s Climes commits to play at Buffalo
High school, Sports
By JEREMY SELLEW 
July 9, 2024
The Bulls won out on the tenacious lineman. He chose Buffalo over James Madison and East Carolina. Less than two weeks after announcing he narrowed his list of potential schools to three, Elizabeth Fo...
Charleroi pulls even in semifinal
High school, Local Sports, Sports
By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
July 9, 2024
Belle Vernon suffers first loss as Charleroi forces deciding Game 3 tonight at the DiVirgilio Complex. With their backs against the wall facing elimination after a loss on Monday, it was Charleroi Pos...