The Pittsburgh Pirates made some national headlines Monday by signing former Atlanta Braves designated hitter Marcell Ozuna to a one-year, $12 million contract. Even before that acquisition, The Athle...

MILAN (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon knew he wouldn’t make Canada’s 2014 Olympic team as an 18-year-old NHL rookie, while Germany’s Leon Draisaitl and Czechia’s David Pastrnak were still a year away from bei...

MILAN (AP) — The text message that popped up on Nathan Chen’s phone underscored the enormity of the moment, its arrival shortly after the American figure skater had won his long-awaited gold medal wit...

BVA bocce squad swept by Albert Gallatin The Leopards’ unified bocce squad dropped a pair of close games at Albert Gallatin Tuesday. The Colonials won the first game, 9-7, to open the match. Katie Cal...

Belle Vernon and Elizabeth Forward girls could meet for Round 3 this season in the quarterfinals. The WPIAL basketball playoff brackets have been released with nine local girls teams continuing into t...

With the release of the WPIAL boys basketball playoff brackets on Monday, 11 teams from the Mon Valley learned what it will take to try to make a run to the Petersen Events Center. Local squads earned...

The Belle Vernon Area Middle School wrestling team completed an unbeaten season, finishing 13-0, with their dual win over South Fayette last week. Coached by Tim Ayersman, Jeff Hensley and Billy Korbe...

The last time the Elizabeth Forward girls played Baldwin, the Highlanders rolled to a 74-44 win over the Warriors. So on Monday, Warriors head coach Noah Yartin knew exactly what he was looking for fr...

By the Mon Valley Independent Serra Catholic used a strong middle stretch to pull away from Winchester Thurston in a nonsection matchup, turning a 21-point opening quarter by the Bears into a controll...

Ringgold went 29-2 that season and captured the WPIAL championship. For the second consecutive year, the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Hall of Fame featured a distinct Ringgold flavor. A year after forme...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — How fitting that Sam Darnold delivered the capstone of his topsy-turvy NFL career in the very same place where he recently revived it. On the sideline of Levi’s Stadium two ...

MILAN (AP) — Mike Sullivan wanted his players to get their blood moving, break out a sweat and adjust to a new time zone with most of them fresh off flying across the Atlantic Ocean. He did not want a...

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin, the U.S. figure skater nicknamed the “Quad God,” became the first person to legally land a backflip on one skate in the Olympics — although one trailblazing woman pulled it ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn knows the Olympic downhill course better than anyone. She’s won a record 12 World Cup races on the Olympia delle Tofane track — split evenly between six do...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn was over the limit. Beyond it, really. Because of course she was. There is only one speed for maybe the fiercest competitor to ever snap into a pair of ski...

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He scored 27 points in the second half to help erase a 12-point deficit. Through one half of Saturday’s contest between South Allegheny and Seton LaSalle, many of the issues that have repeatedly bothe...

Both Golden Knights teams are nationally ranked. By the Mon Valley Independent Pace Prosser scored 24 points and No. 6 Gannon used a decisive first-half run to pull away from California (Pa.) for a 11...

College basketball has its “March Madness” when the tournament begins and we eliminate the pretenders from the contenders (barring upsets) rather quickly. High school hoops playoffs don’t wait for Mar...

Kenneth Walker earned MVP honors in the 29-13 victory. SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Defense won this championship. Devon Witherspoon, Derick Hall, Byron Murphy and the rest of Mike Macdonald’s ferocious...