Mike Tomlin is nostalgic about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ game this weekend in Dublin. He just doesn’t want his players to be. The game in Croke Park against the Minnesota Vikings might be historic beca...

When Brian Flores filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL in February 2022, Mike Tomlin offered a lifeline. Flores left the Pittsburgh Steelers after one season to become the Minnesota V...

When doctors couldn’t get good imaging of the backside of his elbow to determine the damage to his ulnar collateral ligament, Jared Jones wasn’t sure what type of surgery lay ahead. The Pittsburgh Pir...

Four Associated Press Top 25 matchups headline the Week 5 college football schedule, and at least a half-dozen other games involving ranked teams are equally intriguing. The only meeting of top-10 tea...

BVA basketball teams hosting camp The Belle Vernon Area boys and girls basketball teams will kick off the basketball seasons with a camp for local boys and girls. The camp will be held on Nov. 8 and 9...

The 2A and 3A final rounds will be held Oct. 1 at Sewickley Heights Golf Club. Five local golfers are heading to the final rounds of the WPIAL individual girls golf championships next week at Sewickle...

Jesse Sobczak scored in overtime to give the Leopards a 2-1 win over the Red Raiders. When Belle Vernon’s Jesse Sobczak finished off Tuesday night’s 2-1 win over Uniontown in extra time, the Leopards ...

Ireland has sent quite a few of its people to America over the years. The U.S. will be returning the favor this week. The Steelers-Vikings matchup at Croke Park in Dublin is expected to draw a larger-...

The BVA volleyball team is in a good spot in Section 3-3A as the second half of section play begins. The Belle Vernon Area volleyball team closed out the first half of its Section 3-3A slate with auth...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The trick to going nearly two decades without a losing season is to find a way to pull out a victory or two along the way that maybe you shouldn’t have. Actually, maybe it’s not a tr...

The competition committee approved use of the ABS system. NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tu...

Whenever a college football team drops a game in a way Pitt lost at West Virginia, the topic invariably comes up about how the players will — or won’t — bounce back emotionally when they have to take ...

Bentworth continued its unbeaten start to the season in emphatic fashion, rolling past Freedom 9–1 in nonsection play Tuesday. The Bearcats wasted little time taking control, pouring in five first-hal...

By any measure, the 198384 season was the worst in the history of the Pittsburgh Penguins. And it was no accident. The roster was constructed with the intent of being awful. And then it was progressiv...

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Kirby Smart has had to wait 10 years for his Georgia team to play at home against Alabama. Saturday night’s visit by No. 17 Alabama to No. 5 Georgia gives Smart, the former Crimson ...

BVA basketball teams hosting camp The Belle Vernon Area boys and girls basketball teams will kick off the basketball seasons with a camp for local boys and girls. The camp will be held on Nov. 8 and 9...

Belle Vernon shook off an early deficit to beat Steel Valley 3–1 in Section 1-2A play. After the Ironmen struck first, the Leopards answered with a goal before halftime, then controlled the second hal...

Baldwin football coach Dana Brown Jr. saw the social media comments saying he should immediately kick a player off the team for unsportsmanlike actions captured Friday in a viral video. Brown strongly...

In a Monday night non-section matchup between two local Mon Valley rivals, it was Belle Vernon’s Chris Showman that came up with the winning goal in extra time to capture a 2-1 victory at Ringgold. Af...

Belle Vernon’s Jack Edwards (left) is tied for fifth place in the Class 3A individual championships, while Charleroi’s Levi Large is tied for eighth place in the Class 2A championships after Monday’s ...