Excitement builds for MVI Shootout Classic
High school, Sports
I’M JUST SAYIN‘
By JEREMY SELLEW 
November 26, 2025
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...
15th title a special one for Clairton
High school, Sports
By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
November 26, 2025
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...
Bucs have ‘resources to add aggressively’
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
November 26, 2025
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 reaches semifinalist round
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JOE RUTTER TribLive 
November 26, 2025
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...
Turner’s potential only beginning to show
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
November 26, 2025
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...
Skenes receives record $3.4M in bonus pool
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer 
November 26, 2025
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 ...
Tomlin has ‘optimism’ Rodgers will return for Bills
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JOE RUTTER TribLive 
November 26, 2025
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...
Lovelace shows he can play with the best linebackers
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
November 26, 2025
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...
Burrow excited for long-awaited return
NFL, Sports
November 26, 2025
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...
Love says injury shouldn’t limit effectiveness
NFL, Sports
November 26, 2025
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Jordan Love says he’s “not going to sugarcoat” the fact he’s dealing with an injury to his non-throwing shoulder, however the Green Bay Packers quarterback says it isn’t somethi...
Stafford’s season could end up among the best
NFL, Sports
By By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer 
November 26, 2025
Matthew Stafford is having one of the best statistical seasons in NFL history. The 37-year-old quarterback has thrown 27 touchdowns since his most recent interception in Week 3. Overall, he has 2,830 ...
Sports
November 26, 2025
CHL HOCKEY 8 p.m. - NHLN — 2025 Prospects Challenge: Canada vs. U.S., Game 2, Lethbridge, Canada COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN) Noon - ESPN — Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament: Vanderbilt vs. W. Kentucky, Nassau...
Sports
November 26, 2025
RInggold 8th grade stays unbeaten The Ringgold 8th-grade basketball team knocked off visiting Peters Township B at home Tuesday by a score of 42-19. Matthew Popp scored 19 points and Cam Locker pitche...
For sagging Steelers, devil is in the details
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
November 25, 2025
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin thrives living on the margins. The Pittsburgh Steelers coach loves it when things get “thick,” to borrow one of his favorite words. Things have rarely been murkier during...
Anderson ready if Broderick Jones can’t go
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By CHRIS ADAMSKI AP 
November 25, 2025
TribLive For the first time in five years, Calvin Anderson began the 2024 regular season not on an NFL roster. He ended the season as the Steelers left tackle in a playoff game. A six-year NFL veteran...
Steinbrenner ‘might’ support a salary floor in MLB
MLB, Sports
November 25, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner declined to say Monday whether he favors a salary cap proposal in the next collective bargaining agreement but reiterated he might support a pay...
Commodores small on numbers, big on quality
High school, Sports
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
November 25, 2025
The Frazier wrestling team has only six wrestlers on its varsity roster this season. Frazier doesn’t have the longest-running wrestling program, but the Commodores have had their share of success stor...
With Aaron Rodgers sidelined, Mason Rudolph and Steelers fall short
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
November 25, 2025
CHICAGO (AP) — On this trip to Chicago, Aaron Rodgers was just a spectator at Soldier Field. Mason Rudolph tried to rally Pittsburgh to a late win, but it didn’t work out. Rodgers might own the Bears,...
Steelers stay positive after losing AFC North lead
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By CHRIS ADAMSKI TribLive 
November 25, 2025
Last season as he celebrated Thanksgiving, Brandin Echols was playing for a 3-9 football team. The year before that, a Black Friday defeat dropped his team to 4-7. As a rookie in 2021, if Echols, like...
Sanders makes big plays in first start
NFL, Sports
November 25, 2025
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The last time Cleveland Browns rookie Shedeur Sanders was inside Allegiant Stadium, he and his Pro Football Hall of Fame father answered similar questions during Big 12 Media Day abou...