Coming off a 5-17 season, he wants to get them to a point where they can compete with the top teams in the section. A household name in the South Allegheny sports community is looking to bring some st...

Coach Dom DeCicco wants that quality to start with the Jaguars’ defense. Toughness. It’s that simple. Toughness has been the main message for veteran coach Dom DeCicco as he prepares to guide the Thom...

The only setback has been Kaylee DeAngelo’s ACL tear. The Thomas Jefferson girls basketball team is eager to start the new season as one of the favorites in Class 5A. Last year, with the likes of Magg...

Jose Perez and Julian Dewberry, who both started as freshmen, will try to keep the program successful. While the West Mifflin boys’ basketball team will be young this season, it won’t necessarily be i...

Justin Walther has a long track record of success, but this is his first time coaching a girls team. The West Mifflin girls basketball team faces difficult matchups in Class 5A, up a level from the bo...

Devin Owens blames “laziness” for last year’s 1-21 finish. A year ago, Yough’s boys basketball team suffered through a miserable 1-21 campaign. Enter a new coach — and a new outlook. Devin Owens, in h...

Brian Znavor is hoping to build a program that can compete with the best teams in the section. In 2024-25, Yough finished fifth in Section 3-4A on its way to a 12-12 season. Third-year coach Brian Zna...

MV Alumni basketball to be held at Monessen Civic Center Mon Valley Alumni Basketball men’s and women’s championships will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Monessen Civic Center, 861 Donner Ave. Adm...

AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (WOMEN’S) 3:25 a.m. (Saturday) - FS2 — AFL Postseason: Brisbane at North Melbourne, Grand Final AUTO RACING 8:25 a.m. - ESPNU — Formula 1: Practice, Lusail International Circ...

Can you smell it? That’s the smell of local gymnasiums with freshly surfaced floors, all prepared to start hosting games as basketball season is literally just days away here in the Mon Valley. Join u...

After Clairton outlasted Laurel in a gutsy 8-6 win to capture the school’s 15th WPIAL championship — the second most in district history behind Aliquippa, which also won this season — nine seniors too...

Travis Williams smiled in the face of a steady rain before distributing Thanksgiving dinners Tuesday outside PNC Park, reiterating that the Pittsburgh Pirates have changed neither their expectations n...

Hines Ward again has reached the semifinal round in Pro Football Hall of Fame balloting. Other eligible members of the Pittsburgh Steelers weren’t as fortunate. Maurkice Pouncey, James Harrison and Ga...

A few weeks ago, Mason Heintschel didn’t fully know how to respond when asked why no Power Four programs, save for Pitt, offered him a scholarship as a high school recruit. Seven starts into his colle...

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes will receive a record $3,436,343 from this year’s pre-arbitration bonus pool, raising his two-year total to $5,588,400 under the initiative to direct more money ...

Aaron Rodgers will begin the week as a limited practice participant, but coach Mike Tomlin is expecting the 41-year-old quarterback to be ready Sunday when the Pittsburgh Steelers play the Buffalo Bil...

Braylan Lovelace entered this season already having proven himself as a valuable contributor at Pitt. In 2024, the Leechburg grad thrived as a rotational member of the Panthers’ linebacking corps, pos...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow confirmed on Tuesday that he’ll be returning on Thanksgiving night to start against the Baltimore Ravens. Burrow had surgery to repair a tur...